Bible in one year 5/10/2022 Deuteronomy Chapter 28-31
By
Rev.Katherine Liu Bruce
Christian
Arts Ministries; Biblical precepts & Gospel music; Pastoral ministry
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Deuteronomy Chapter 28 Promise of
Blessings
An expression to indicate that, if obedient, and pay
attention to the commands of the Lord, Israel would be an independent power,
abundant prosperilty, lend to many nations, not borrow. The head not the
tail. However, if disobedient, the Lord
will strike them with diseases, plague, fever and inflammation with scorching
heat and drought, with blight and mildew and afflict Israel with the boils of
Egypt and with tumors festering sores, the itch, madness, blindness and
confusion of mind, all these curses. (vv.1-30).
Verse 36 A prediction of the Assyrian and
Babylonian captivities, which would be more than seven hundred years in the
future. (17:14). a nation (v.49)
Evidently Babylon, which is likened to an eagle. There follows, in verses
52-57, adscription of the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem(Lam.4). This prophecy
may also have had other fulfillments in other sieges of Jerusalem, especially
that by the Romans in A.D.70.
Verses 64-68 A prophecy of
the dispersion of the Jewish people among all nations after the destruction of
Jerusalem by the Romans in A.D.70. At that time, too, many were consigned to
slavery and transported in ships to Egypt (v.68).
Chapter
29 Provisions of the Palestinian Covenant
The Covenant.(v.1) Moses
now details the agreement under which the people would enter the land of
Palestine. This Palestinian covenant was in addition to the Mosaic covenant
given at Sinai (Horeb). But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind that
understands or eyes that see or ears that hear.(v.4). The people were blind to
the meaning of all that God had done for them.(Psalm106:7). Sulphur (v.23) or
the stifling sulfurous gases that come from volcanic eruption.
Admah…Zeboiim.(Gen.14:2). All the nations will ask : “ Why this fierce, burning
anger?” It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God
of their fathers, the covenant He made with them when he brought them out of
Egypt. This important verse sets the limits and purpose of God’s
revelation:some things He chooses to keep to Himself, but what He ahs revealed
(through the law, in this instance) is the business of His children to obey.
Verses 1 to 10, a prediction of the regathering of Israel from all the nations to which she was scattered. This regathering will occur at the second coming of Christ (v.3 Mark13:26-27) and will include (1) restoration to the land of Palestine (v.5); (2) a work of grace in the people’s heart (v.6) (10:16; Jer.31:31-34); (3) judgment of Israel’s enemies (v.7; Joel3:1-2), and (4) prosperity in the land (v.9, Amos 9:11-15). The Word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it. (v.14). some things are known only to God (29:29), but the commands of His voice (30:8) written down for all to read (30:10) were His clear revelation to Israel, to be accepted in the heart. Paul’s use of this passage in Rom.10:6-10. " See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commands, decrees and laws, then you will live, and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land youi are entering to possess." (vv.15-16).
Chapter 31 Conclusion; Charges related to Moses
I
am no longer able to lead you (v.2) Moses physically, was capable (34:7), but
he had been forbidden to go into the Promised land with the people (Num.20:12).
So he encouraged, “ The Lord your God himself
will cross over ahead of you… Joshua also will cross over ahead of you… Be
strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the
Lord your God goes with you, He will never leave you not forsake you.” (vv.3-6). Long before, Joshua had
been made leader of the army(Ex.17:9) and more recently had been invested with
some of Moses’ authority (Num.27:18-23). Verses 9-13 The deposit of
a written copy with the priests (v.9, symbolizing the transfer of
responsibility for enforcement to the priests) and the regulation for reading
the covenant periodically (v.10) were typical conditions of imperial treaties
of that time. The
Lord said to Moses, “ Now the
day of your death is near. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the Tent of
Meeting, where I will commission him.” (v.14). At this point, God spoke to
Moses face to face for the last time on earth. “ Now write down for yourselves this song and teach it to the Israelites
and have them sing it, so that it may be a witness for me against them. (v.19).
Moses and Joshua (the verb is plural) are commissioned to write a song, a means
of helping the people remember more easily the requirements of the covenant.
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Chapter 28 Blessings for Obedience
28:1 If you fully obey the LORD your God and
carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set
you high above all the nations on earth.
28:2 All these
blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God:
28:3 You will be
blessed in the city and blessed in the country.
28:4 The fruit of your
womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your
livestock--the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
28:5 Your basket and
your kneading trough will be blessed.
28:6 You will be
blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
28:7 The LORD will
grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you.
They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.
28:8 The LORD will send a
blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your
God will bless you in the land he is giving you.
28:9 The LORD will establish you as his holy
people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the LORD your
God and walk in his ways.
28:10 Then all the peoples
on earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will
fear you.
28:11 The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity--in the fruit of your womb, the young of your
livestock and the crops of your ground--in the land he swore to your
forefathers to give you.
28:12 The LORD will open the heavens, the
storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all
the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from
none.
28:13 The LORD will make
you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD
your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be
at the top, never at the bottom.
28:14 Do not turn aside
from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left,
following other gods and serving them.
28:15 However, if you do
not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and
decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake
you:
28:16 You will be
cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
28:17 Your basket and
your kneading trough will be cursed.
28:18 The fruit of
your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your
herds and the lambs of your flocks.
28:19 You will be
cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
28:20 The LORD will
send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to,
until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have
done in forsaking him.
28:21 The LORD will plague
you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to
possess.
28:22 The LORD will strike
you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and
drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish.
28:23 The sky over
your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.
28:24 The LORD will
turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the
skies until you are destroyed.
28:25 The LORD will
cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one
direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to
all the kingdoms on earth.
28:26 Your carcasses
will be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and
there will be no one to frighten them away.
28:27 The LORD will
afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the
itch, from which you cannot be cured.
28:28 The LORD will afflict you with madness,
blindness and confusion of mind.
28:29 At midday you will
grope about like a blind man in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in
everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one
to rescue you.
28:30 You will be
pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and ravish her. You
will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but
you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit.
28:31 Your ox will be
slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be
forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to
your enemies, and no one will rescue them.
28:32 Your sons and
daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes
watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand.
28:33 A people that
you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have
nothing but cruel oppression all your days.
28:34 The sights you see
will drive you mad.
28:35 The LORD will
afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading
from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
28:36 The LORD will
drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your
fathers. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.
28:37 You will become
a thing of horror and an object of scorn and ridicule to all the nations where
the LORD will drive you.
28:38 You will sow
much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour
it.
28:39 You will plant
vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the
grapes, because worms will eat them.
28:40 You will have
olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the
olives will drop off.
28:41 You will have
sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into
captivity.
28:42 Swarms of
locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.
28:43 The alien who
lives among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower
and lower.
28:44 He will lend to
you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, but you will be the
tail.
28:45 All these curses
will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are
destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and observe the commands
and decrees he gave you.
28:46 They will be a
sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.
28:47 Because you did
not serve the LORD your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity,
28:48 therefore in
hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies
the LORD sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has
destroyed you.
28:49 The LORD will
bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an
eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand,
28:50 a fierce-looking
nation without respect for the old or pity for the young.
28:51 They will devour
the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed.
They will leave you no grain, new wine or oil, nor any calves of your herds or
lambs of your flocks until you are ruined.
28:52 They will lay
siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in
which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land
the LORD your God is giving you.
28:53 Because of the
suffering that your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat
the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God
has given you.
28:54 Even the most
gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother
or the wife he loves or his surviving children,
28:55 and he will not
give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will
be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you
during the siege of all your cities.
28:56 The most gentle
and sensitive woman among you--so sensitive and gentle that she would not
venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot--will begrudge the
husband she loves and her own son or daughter
28:57 the afterbirth
from her womb and the children she bears. For she intends to eat them secretly
during the siege and in the distress that your enemy will inflict on you in
your cities.
28:58 If you do not
carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and
do not revere this glorious and awesome name--the LORD your God--
28:59 the LORD will
send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged
disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses.
28:60 He will bring
upon you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to
you.
28:61 The LORD will
also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book
of the Law, until you are destroyed.
28:62 You who were as
numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you
did not obey the LORD your God.
28:63 Just as it
pleased the LORD to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please
him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are
entering to possess.
28:64 Then the LORD
will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other.
There you will worship other gods--gods of wood and stone, which neither you
nor your fathers have known.
28:65 Among those
nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot.
There the LORD will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a
despairing heart.
28:66 You will live in
constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your
life.
28:67 In the morning
you will say, "If only it were evening!" and in the evening, "If
only it were morning!"--because of the terror that will fill your hearts
and the sights that your eyes will see.
28:68 The LORD will
send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make
again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and
female slaves, but no one will buy you.
29:1 These are the
terms of the covenant the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in
Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.
29:2 Moses summoned
all the Israelites and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that the LORD did
in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials and to all his land.
29:3 With your own
eyes you saw those great trials, those miraculous signs and great wonders.
29:4 But to this day
the LORD has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears
that hear.
29:5 During the forty
years that I led you through the desert, your clothes did not wear out, nor did
the sandals on your feet.
29:6 You ate no bread
and drank no wine or other fermented drink. I did this so that you might know
that I am the LORD your God.
29:7 When you reached
this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to fight
against us, but we defeated them.
29:8 We took their
land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the
half-tribe of Manasseh.
29:9 Carefully follow the
terms of this covenant, so that you may prosper in everything you do.
29:10 All of you are
standing today in the presence of the LORD your God--your leaders and chief
men, your elders and officials, and all the other men of Israel,
29:11 together with
your children and your wives, and the aliens living in your camps who chop your
wood and carry your water.
29:12 You are standing
here in order to enter into a covenant with the LORD your God, a covenant the
LORD is making with you this day and sealing with an oath,
29:13 to confirm you this
day as his people, that he may be your God as he promised you and as he swore
to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
29:14 I am making this
covenant, with its oath, not only with you
29:15 who are standing
here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God but also with those who
are not here today.
29:16 You yourselves know
how we lived in Egypt and how we passed through the countries on the way here.
29:17 You saw among
them their detestable images and idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold.
29:18 Make sure there
is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from
the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there
is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.
29:19 When such a
person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself and
therefore thinks, "I will be safe, even though I persist in going my own
way." This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
29:20 The LORD will
never be willing to forgive him; his wrath and zeal will burn against that man.
All the curses written in this book will fall upon him, and the LORD will blot
out his name from under heaven.
29:21 The LORD will
single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the
curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.
29:22 Your children
who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands
will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with
which the LORD has afflicted it.
29:23 The whole land will
be a burning waste of salt and sulfur--nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no
vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and
Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in fierce anger.
29:24 All the nations will
ask: "Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning
anger?"
29:25 And the answer will
be: "It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God
of their fathers, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of
Egypt.
29:26 They went off and
worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he
had not given them.
29:27 Therefore the LORD'S
anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written
in this book.
29:28 In furious anger
and in great wrath the LORD uprooted them from their land and thrust them into
another land, as it is now."
29:29 The secret
things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to
our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.
30:1 When all these
blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you and you take them to
heart wherever the LORD your God disperses you among the nations,
30:2 and when you and
your children return to the LORD your God and obey him with all your heart and
with all your soul according to everything I command you today,
30:3 then the LORD
your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you
again from all the nations where he scattered you.
30:4 Even if you have
been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the LORD
your God will gather you and bring you back.
30:5 He will bring you
to the land that belonged to your fathers, and you will take possession of it. He
will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers.
30:6 The LORD your God
will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may
love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live.
30:7 The LORD your God
will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you.
30:8 You will again
obey the LORD and follow all his commands I am giving you today.
30:9 Then the LORD
your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the
fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The
LORD will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in
your fathers,
30:10 if you obey the LORD
your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the
Law and turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
The Offer of Life or Death
30:11 Now what I am commanding you today is not
too difficult for you or beyond your reach.
30:12 It is not up in heaven, so that you have to
ask, "Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we
may obey it?"
30:13 Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have
to ask, "Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may
obey it?"
30:14 No, the word is very near you; it is in your
mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.
30:15 See, I set before
you today life and prosperity, death and destruction.
30:16 For I command you
today to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands,
decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will
bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
30:17 But if your
heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow
down to other gods and worship them,
30:18 I declare to you
this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the
land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
30:19 This day I call
heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death,
blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live
30:20 and that you may
love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD
is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to
your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
31:1 Then Moses went
out and spoke these words to all Israel:
31:2 "I am now a
hundred and twenty years old and I am no longer able to lead you. The LORD has
said to me, 'You shall not cross the Jordan.'
31:3 The LORD your God
himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you,
and you will take possession of their land. Joshua also will cross over ahead
of you, as the LORD said.
31:4 And the LORD will
do to them what he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, whom he
destroyed along with their land.
31:5 The LORD will deliver them to you, and you
must do to them all that I have commanded you.
31:6 Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or
terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never
leave you nor forsake you."
31:7 Then Moses summoned
Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, "Be strong and courageous, for you must go with this people into the
land that the LORD swore to their forefathers to give them, and you must divide
it among them as their inheritance.
31:8 The LORD himself goes before you and will be
with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be
discouraged."
Public Reading of the
Law
31:9 So Moses wrote
down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark
of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.
31:10 Then Moses
commanded them: "At the end of every seven years, in the year for
canceling debts, during the Feast of Tabernacles,
31:11 when all Israel
comes to appear before the LORD your God at the place he will choose, you shall
read this law before them in their hearing.
31:12 Assemble the
people--men, women and children, and the aliens living in your towns--so they
can listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and follow carefully all the
words of this law.
31:13 Their children,
who do not know this law, must hear it and learn to fear the LORD your God as
long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess."
Israel’s Rebellion
Predicted
31:14 The LORD said to Moses, "Now the day of
your death is near. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the Tent of Meeting,
where I will commission him." So Moses and Joshua came and presented
themselves at the Tent of Meeting.
31:15 Then the LORD
appeared at the Tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood over the
entrance to the Tent.
31:16 And the LORD said to
Moses: "You are going to rest with your fathers, and these people will
soon prostitute themselves to the foreign gods of the land they are entering.
They will forsake me and break the covenant I made with them.
31:17 On that day I
will become angry with them and forsake them; I will hide my face from them,
and they will be destroyed. Many disasters and difficulties will come upon
them, and on that day they will ask, 'Have not these disasters come upon us
because our God is not with us?'
31:18 And I will
certainly hide my face on that day because of all their wickedness in turning
to other gods.
31:19 "Now write down for yourselves this
song and teach it to the Israelites and have them sing it, so that it may be a
witness for me against them.
31:20 When I have
brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, the land I promised on
oath to their forefathers, and when they eat their fill and thrive, they will
turn to other gods and worship them, rejecting me and breaking my covenant.
31:21 And when many
disasters and difficulties come upon them, this song will testify against them,
because it will not be forgotten by their descendants. I know what they are
disposed to do, even before I bring them into the land I promised them on
oath."
31:22 So Moses wrote
down this song that day and taught it to the Israelites.
31:23 The LORD gave this command to Joshua son of
Nun: "Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the Israelites into the
land I promised them on oath, and I myself will be with you."
31:24 After Moses
finished writing in a book the words of this law from beginning to end,
31:25 he gave this
command to the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD:
31:26 "Take this
Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your
God. There it will remain as a witness against you.
31:27 For I know how
rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you have been rebellious against the
LORD while I am still alive and with you, how much more will you rebel after I
die!
31:28 Assemble before
me all the elders of your tribes and all your officials, so that I can speak
these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to testify against them.
31:29 For I know that
after my death you are sure to become utterly corrupt and to turn from the way
I have commanded you. In days to come, disaster will fall upon you because you
will do evil in the sight of the LORD and provoke him to anger by what your
hands have made."
The Song of Moses
31:30 And Moses
recited the words of this song from beginning to end in the hearing of the
whole assembly of Israel:
Ryrie, Charles C. The
Ryrie study Bible (NIV).Chicago, IL: The Moody Bible Institute, 1986
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