Deuteronomy 29:1-29 NIV

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:9

Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them ,.... To do which they were laid under great obligations, through the goodness of God to them, in giving them victory over the two kings, and delivering their countries into their hands, as well as by all the favours bestowed on them in the wilderness, where they were sufficiently supplied with food, drink, and raiment; all which is made use of as a motive and argument to engage them to observe and keep the covenant the Lord made with... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:10

Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God ,.... Being gathered together at the door of the tabernacle, at the summons of Moses. Aben Ezra interprets it round about the ark, which was the symbol of the divine Presence: your captains of your tribes ; the heads and rulers of them: your elders and your officers, with all the men of Israel ; not the seventy elders only, but their elders in their several tribes, cities, and families, men of gravity and prudence, as well as of... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:11

Your little ones, your wives ,.... Who are scarce ever mentioned in any special law or solemn transaction: and thy stranger that is in thy camp ; not only the proselyte of righteousness, who embraced the Jewish religion entirely, but the proselyte of the gate, who was admitted to dwell among them, having renounced idolatry. These standing with the Israelites, when this covenant was made, has respect to the Gentiles, who as well as the Jews have an interest in the covenant of grace made... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:12

That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God ,.... That is, they were all to appear and stand in this order before the Lord, that they might solemnly avouch him to be their God, and hear him declaring them to be his people, and the many promises and prophecies of good things he should deliver to them, as well as threatenings of wrath and vengeance in case of disobedience to him: or "that thou shouldest pass" F5 לעברך "ut transeas", V. L. Tigurine version, Munster,... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:13

That be may establish thee this day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God ,.... Which contains the sum and substance of the covenant; see Jeremiah 32:38 , as he hath said unto thee, and as he had sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob ; Deuteronomy 26:17 . read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:14

Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath. That is, Moses; for he was ordered to make this covenant with them in the name of the Lord; what promises of good things, or declarations of his mind and will, God would make, Moses was to deliver to them; and what was required of them he would inform them of. Aben Ezra interprets it, not only you, but those that will come after you, your sons and your sons' sons. read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:15

But with him that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God ,.... Who are before specified according to their dignity, age, sex, and station of life; or rather, "but as with him that standeth", &c.; and so with him that is not here with us this day ; detained at home by illness and indisposition of body, or by one providence or another; so that they could not come out of their tents, and make their appearance before the tabernacle; though Jarchi interprets this... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:16

For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt ,.... How long they and their fathers had dwelt there, the number of years they had been in the land, as the Targum of Jonathan, which was upwards of two hundred years; and being a country the inhabitants of which were much given to idolatry, they had seen many of their idols, and much of their idolatrous worship; and their hearts had been apt to be ensnared by it, and the minds of some tinctured with it, and the remembrance thereof might... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:17

And ye have seen their abominations and their idols ,.... Or, "their abominations, even their idols"; for the same are meant by both: it is common in Scripture to call the idols of the Gentiles abominations, without any other explanation of them; see 1 Kings 11:5 ; because they are abominable to God, and ought to be so to men: the word for idols has the signification of dung, and may be rendered dunghill gods, either referring to such that were bred and lived in dung, as the beetle,... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:18

Lest there should be among you man or woman, or family, or tribe ,.... These words stand in connection with Deuteronomy 29:15 , with Deuteronomy 29:16 being in a parenthesis, as may be observed, and show the design of this solemn appearance of the people, and their entering afresh into covenant; which was to prevent their falling into idolatry, and preserve them from it, whether a single person of either sex, or a whole family, or even a tribe, which might be in danger of being infected... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:18

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