Deuteronomy 29:1
These, are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to solemnise with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab,—besides the covenant, which he solemnised with them in Horeb.
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Exodus 19:3And when Moses, had gone up unto God, then called Yahweh unto him out of the mountain saying, Thus, shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, And tell the sons of Israel:
Exodus 24:2And Moses alone shall draw near unto Yahweh, but, they shall not draw near, and, the people, shall not come up with him.
Deuteronomy 1:1These, are the words, which Moses spake unto all Israel, over the Jordan,—in the wilderness in the waste plain over against Suph, between Paran and Tophel, and Laban and Hazeroth and Di-zahab:
Deuteronomy 4:13Then declared he unto you his covenant which he commanded you to do, the ten words,—and wrote them upon two tables of stone.
Deuteronomy 5:2Yahweh our God, solemnised with us a covenant in Horeb:
Deuteronomy 29:21and Yahweh single him out for calamity, out of all the tribes of Israel,—according to all the oaths of the covenant that is written in this scroll 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 →