Deuteronomy 31:16 - Chapters 31-33. Summary

Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers (cf. 2 Samuel 7:12 ; Psalms 13:3 ; Psalms 76:5 ; Daniel 12:2 ; Matthew 27:52 ; John 11:11 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:14 ). "The death of men, both good and bad, is often called a sleep , because they shall certainly awake out of it by resurrection" (Peele). Go a whoring (cf. Exodus 34:15 ; 2:17 ) after the gods of the strangers of the land ; literally, after gods of strangeness of the land ; i . e . after gods foreign to the land, as opposed to Jehovah, the alone proper God of the land he had given to them.