Verses 29-40
29-40. Terrible as will be their punishment if they forget Jehovah their God, there is hope of his mercy and love if they shall ever repent. Moses does not close his discourse without again reminding them of the glorious works wrought in connexion with their deliverance. Deuteronomy 4:37-39 inclusive would better be read: “Because he loved thy fathers, and chose his [Abraham’s] seed after him, and brought thee out of Egypt in his sight with great power, to drive out nations mightier and stronger than thou art from before thy face, and to bring thee in, and to give thee their land for an inheritance that thou mightest know and consider in thy heart that Jehovah he is the God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath.”
In his sight Literally, by his face by his personal presence. In Exodus 33:14, Jehovah is represented as saying to Moses, “My presence [literally, my face ] shall go with thee.”
As it is this day By the conquest of Og and Sihon the Israelites had a pledge that the nations of Canaan would be dispossessed.
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