Deuteronomy 31:28

Call together unto me all the elders of your tribes and your officers,—and let me speak in their hearing these words, and let me take to witness against them the heavens and the earth.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.

In Context

27For, I, know thy perverseness, and thy stiff neck,—lo! while I am yet alive with you to-day, ye are, quarrelling, with Yahweh, and how much more after my death?

29For I know that after my death, ye will break faith, and turn aside out of the way which I have commanded you,—and calamity will befall you in the afterpart of the days, because ye will do the thing that is wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, to provoke him with the work of your own hands.

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Cross References

Genesis 49:1Then called Jacob unto his sons,—and said—Gather yourselves together, and let me tell you, that which shall befall you in the afterpart of the days.

Numbers 11:16Then said Yahweh unto Moses—Gather thou unto me seventy men, from among the elders of Israel, of whom thou knowest that they are elders of the people and their overseers,—then shalt thou take them unto the tent of meeting, and they shall station themselves there with thee.

Deuteronomy 29:10Ye are stationed, to-day, all of you, before Yahweh your God,—your heads your tribes, and your elders and your officers, every man of Israel;

Deuteronomy 31:12Call together the people—the men and the women and the little ones, and thy sojourner who is within thy gates,—that they may hear, and that they may learn, so shall they revere Yahweh your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;

2 Kings 23:1Then the king sent,—and there were gathered unto him, all the elders of Judah, and Jerusalem;

Luke 19:40And he answered and said—I tell you—If, these, shall hold their peace, the stones, will cry out.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 31:23-30

The Song of Moses. ( b. c. 1451.) 22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. 23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee. 24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, 25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the… Read the whole commentary →

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