Deuteronomy 29-19

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 29

The first words of this chapter are the contents of it, ?These are the words of the covenant? (Deut. 29:1), that is, these that follow. Here is, I. A recital of God's dealings with them, in order to the bringing of them into this covenant, Deut. 29:2-8. II. A solemn charge to them to keep the covenant, Deut. 29:9. III. An abstract of the covenant itself, Deut. 29:12, 13. IV. A specification of the persons taken into the covenant, Deut. 29:10, 11, 14, 15. V. An intimation of the great design of... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:1-9

Now that Moses had largely repeated the commands which the people were to observe as their part of the covenant, and the promises and threatenings which God would make good (according as they behaved themselves) as part of the covenant, the whole is here summed up in a federal transaction. The covenant formerly made is here renewed, and Moses, who was before, is still, the mediator of it (Deut. 29:1): The Lord commanded Moses to make it. Moses himself, though king in Jeshurun, could not make... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:10-29

It appears by the length of the sentences here, and by the copiousness and pungency of the expressions, that Moses, now that he was drawing near to the close of his discourse, was very warm and zealous, and very desirous to impress what he said upon the minds of this unthinking people. To bind them the faster to God and duty, he here, with great solemnity of expression (to make up the want of the external ceremony that was used (Exod. 24:4-8), concludes a bargain (as it were) between them and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 29 This chapter begins with an intimation of another covenant the Lord was about to make with the people of Israel, Deuteronomy 29:1 ; and, to prepare their minds to an attention to it, various things which the Lord had done for them are recited, Deuteronomy 29:2 ; the persons are particularly mentioned with whom the covenant would now be made, the substance of which is, that they should be his people, and he their God, Deuteronomy 29:10 ; and since they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:1

These are the words of the covenant ,.... Not what go before, but follow after, in the next chapters, to the end of the book; in which are various promises of grace, and promises of good things, both with respect to Jews and Gentiles, intermixed with other things: which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab ; or to declare unto them, and acquaint them with, they being now in the plains of Moab, ready to enter into the land of, Canaan: ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:2

Moses called unto all Israel ,.... He had been speaking before to the heads of them, and delivered at different times what is before recorded; but now he summoned the whole body of the people together, a solemn covenant being to be made between God and them; or such things being to be made known unto them as were of universal concernment: and said unto them ; what is in this chapter; which is only a preparation or introduction to what he had to declare unto them in the following: ye... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:3

The great temptations which thine eyes have seen ,.... Or trials, the ten plagues which tried the Egyptians, whether they would let Israel go; and tried the Israelites, whether they would believe in the Lord, and trust in his almighty power to deliver them: the signs and those great miracles : as the said plagues were such as were beyond the power of nature to produce, and which only Omnipotence could really effect. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:4

Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive ,.... They had some of them seen the above miracles with their bodily eyes, but had not discerned with the eyes of their understanding the power of God displayed in them, the goodness of God to them on whose behalf they were wrought, in order to obtain their deliverance, and the vengeance of God on the Egyptians for detaining them; so Jarchi interprets it of an heart to know the mercies of the Lord, and to cleave unto him: and eyes to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:5

And I have led you forty years in the wilderness ,.... From the time of their coming out of Egypt unto that day, which though not quite complete, is given as a round number. Eupolemus F4 Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 30. p. 447. , an Heathen writer, confirms this date of the ministry of Moses among the Israelites; he says, Moses performed the office of a prophet forty years: your clothes are not waxen old upon you : were not worn out; all those forty years they had been in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:6

Ye have not eaten bread ,.... Bread made of corn, common bread, of their own preparing, made by the labour of their own hands; but manna, the food of angelS, the bread of heaven: neither have you drank wine, nor strong drink ; only water out of the rock, at least chiefly, and for constancy; though it may be, when they were on the borders of other countries, as of the Edomites, they might obtain some wine for their money: that ye might know that I am the Lord your God ; who was both... read more

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