Deuteronomy 29:18

lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

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In The King James Version

Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

In Context

17and you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were among them);

19and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 13:1If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,

Psalms 10:13Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account”?

Jeremiah 23:17They say continually to those who despise me, ‘The LORD has said, “You will have peace;”’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on you.’

Amos 6:12Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness,

Hebrews 3:12Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 29:11-29

The Covenant Renewed. ( b. c. 1451.) 10 Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, 11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water: 12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day: 13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and… Read the whole commentary →

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