Deuteronomy 29:1
These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
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Exodus 19:3And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
Exodus 24:2And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
Deuteronomy 1:1These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
Deuteronomy 4:13And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
Deuteronomy 5:2The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
Deuteronomy 29:21And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 29:1
The first words of this chapter are the contents of it, "These are the words of the covenant" ( ver. 1 ), that is, these that follow. Here is, I. A recital of God's dealings with them, in order to the bringing of them into this covenant, ver. 2-8 . II. A solemn charge to them to keep the covenant, ver. 9 . III. An abstract of the covenant itself, ver. 12, 13 . IV. A specification of the persons taken into the covenant, ver. 10, 11 , 14 , 15 . V. An intimation of the great design of this covenant against idolatry,… Read the whole commentary →