Deuteronomy 29:1-6

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

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 29:1

These are the words of the covenant - This verse seems properly to belong to the preceding chapter, as a widely different subject is taken up at Deuteronomy 29:2 ; of this; and it is distinguished as the 69th verse in some of the most correct copies of the Hebrew Bible. Commanded Moses to make - לכרת lichroth , to cut, alluding to the covenant sacrifice which was offered on the occasion and divided, as is explained, Genesis 15:18 ; (note). Beside the covenant which he made -... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 29:4

The Lord hath not given you a heart, etc. - Some critics read this verse interrogatively: And hath not God given you a heart, etc.? because they suppose that God could not reprehend them for the non-performance of a duty, when he had neither given them a mind to perceive the obligation of it, nor strength to perform it, had that obligation been known. Though this is strictly just, yet there is no need for the interrogation, as the words only imply that they had not such a heart, etc., not... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 29:5

Your clothes are not waxen old - See on Deuteronomy 8:4 ; (note). read more

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