Deuteronomy 29:2-29

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 29:2

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:7

And when ye came unto this place ,.... The borders of Moab, the wilderness before it, to which joined the plains they were now in; see Numbers 21:13 , Sihon king of Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle ; not together, but one after the other, and that very quickly; as soon almost as they had fought with the one, and conquered him, the other came out against them: and we smote them ; killed them and their armies, and the inhabitants of their countries; the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:8

And we took their land ,.... Which belonged to the two kings, the lands of Jazer, Gilead, and Bashan, fine countries for pasturage: and gave it for an inheritances unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh ; who requested it, and to whom it was granted on certain conditions, and they were now in possession of it; see Numbers 32:1 . read more

John Gill

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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