Deuteronomy 4:22

But death is to come to me in this land, I may not go over Jordan: but you will go over and take that good land for your heritage.

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In The King James Version

But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.

In Context

21And the Lord was angry with me because of you, and made an oath that I was not to go over Jordan into the good land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage:

23Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:37And, in addition, the Lord was angry with me because of you, saying, You yourself will not go into it:

Deuteronomy 3:27Go up to the top of Pisgah, and turning your eyes to the west and the north, to the south and the east, see the land with your eyes: for you are not to go over Jordan.

Amos 3:2You only of all the families of the earth have I taken care of: for this reason I will send punishment on you for all your sins.

2 Peter 1:13And it seems right to me, as long as I am in this tent of flesh, to keep your minds awake by working on your memory;

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 4:2-41

Exhortations and Arguments. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you. 2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. 3 Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed… Read the whole commentary →

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