Sihon, and Og, subdued. B. C. 1451. DEUTERONOMY, IV. Allotment of the conquered land. Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants. him into thy hand, as appeareth this day. 31 And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land. 32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz. 33 And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. 34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain: 35 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took. 36 From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us : 37 Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok,m nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad" us. CHAPTER III. 0 THEN we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.r 2 And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Hesh bon. 3 So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining. 4 And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob," the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 5 All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many. 6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city. 7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. 8 And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon; 9(Which Hermond the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;) 10 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchahh and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man. 12 And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer," which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites. 13 And the rest of Gilead, and all a1 Ch. 2. 22. Nu.32.39..41 b Nu.21.23,24 Jos. 13. 13. 2 Sa. 3. 3. d chap. 29.7. e chap. 20.16. Bevery city of 29.7. men, and women, and little ones. fch. 7. 2, 26. g Jos. 12. 2, 3. Nu. 34. 11. ich. 3. 12; 4. 48. P chap. 1. 4. 12 Ch. 20. 17. Jos. 22. 4. 8 Nu. 21. 24. t Nu.27.22,23 Is. 43. 1, 2. chap. 1. 30. 20. 4. Ex. 14. 14. 10 1 Ki. 4. 13. x chap. 11. 2. y Ex. 15. 11. 2 Sa. 7. 22. 86. 8. 89. 6, 8. Is. 40. 28. chap. 2. 34. Ps. 135. 10.. 12. 136. 19.. 21. a Ex. 3. 8. b Nu. 20. 12. 27. 13, 14. Jos. 11. 12. Sor, the hill. chap. 4. 49, e Ps. 29. 6. 14. 49. f1 Ch. 5. 23. Eze. 27. 5. chap. 1. 38. 31.3, 7. Nu.27.18, 23 h Jos. 12. 5. 13. 11. i Am. 2. 9. chap. 4. 46. 12 Sa. 12. 26. Le. 19. 37. Ps. 119. 4. n Eze. 20. 11. Ro. 10. 5. 14 Jaira the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashan-havothjair, unto this day. 15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir. 16 And unto the Reubenites, and unto the Gadites, I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon, half the valley, and the border, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon: 17 The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Y Ashdoth-pisgah eastward. 18 And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye' shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are 8 meet for the war. 19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you; 20 Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession which I have given you. 21 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest. 22 Ye shall not fear" them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you. 23 And I besought the LORD at that time, saying, 24 O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might? 25 I pray thee, let me go over, and see the gooda land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. 26 But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter. 27 Get thee up into the top of 5 Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan. 28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see. 29 So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor.* CHAPTER IV. NOW therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments which I teach you, for to do" them, that • Jos.12.2, &c ye may live, and go in and possess the 13.9, &c land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you. P chap. 12.32. Re.22.18,19 q Jos. 13. 29. 2 Yer shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish Moses, with arguments, DEUTERONOMY, IV. you. 4 But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day. 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. 6 Keep, therefore, and do them: for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. 7 For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? 8 And" what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? 9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons; 10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children. 11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. B. C. 1451. a 1 Ki. 8. 51. Je. 11. 4. Nu. 25. 1..9. Ps. 106. 28, 29. c Nu. 26. 64. d chap. 9. 29. 32.9. e Nu. 20. 12. h ver. 15, 16. 111. 10. Ps. 119. 99. m Ex. 20. 5. o Pr. 4. 23. r2 Ki. 17. 17, 8 1 Co. 10. 22. Pr. 3. 1. chap. 30. 18, 19. 4. 21. Is. 1. 2. chap. 6. 7. 11. 19. Ps. 78.5..7. Ep. 6. 4. Ex. XIX. XX. ch. 28.62..64 Le. 26. 33. Ne. 1. 8, 9. v Ec. 12. 13. w Je. 16. 13. * Le. 26. 39, 40. Je.3.12..14. Bheart. 12 And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard they Joel 2. 12. voice of the words, but saw no similitude; y have found only 8 ye heard a voice, a δ per 13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to form, even ten commandments; and hed wrote them upon two tables of stone. 14 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. 15 Takes ye therefore good heed unto yourselves, (for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire,) 16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness' of male or female, 17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, 18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: 19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship" them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto thee. * Je. 23. 20. & save a voice. 41 Ki. 19. 12. Is. 30. 21. b Ps. 116. 5. Jon. 4. 2. e Ex. 34. 28. d Ex. 31. 18. e Ex. XXI. Is. 40. 18. Ps. 119. 9. p Ex. 13. 3. r chap.34.12. 8 Job 31. 26, t He. 12. 25. 2 Ki. 17. 16. again exhorts to obedience. all nations under the whole heaven. 20 But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day. 21 Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance: 22 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land. 23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee. 24 For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire,' even a jealous God. 25 When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoker him to anger; 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. 27 And the LORD shall" scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you. 28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. 29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with ally thy heart and with all thy soul. 30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things y are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; 31 (For the LORD thy God is a' merciful God,) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers, which he sware unto them. 32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? 33 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live? 34 Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations,m by signs," and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty? hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors," according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him. 36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words Cities of refuge. out of the midst of the fire. DEUTERONOMY, V. 37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt; 38 To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day. 39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. 40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever. 41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sun rising; 42 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live: 43 Namely, Bezer? in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites. 44 And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel: t 8 45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments," which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt, 46 On this side Jordan, in the valley Over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt: 47 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sun rising; 48 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon, 49 And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah. CHAPTER V. с The Decalogue repeated. -B. C. 1451. 8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: a ch.4. 15..19. ch.10. 15. Je. 31. 3. Ex.13.3,9,14 d ch. 7. 1. 9. 1, 2. e Ex. 34. 14. Ex. 34. 7. Je. 32. 18. Da. 9. 4..9. Mat. 23.35, 9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, 10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my comRo.11.28,29 mandments. 36. g Is. 1. 3. Ho. 7. 2. h Jos. 2. 11. 1 Ch. 29. 11. i Le. 22. 31. * Le. 19. 12. Ps. 139. 20. Ja. 5. 12. chap. 5. 16. Ep. 6. 3. m Is. 58. 13. Eze. 20. 12. n Ge. 2. 2. He. 4. 4. o chap. 19. 4. Nu. 35. 11. Jos. 20. 8. Ex. 23. 12. r ch.15.15. 16.12. 24.18,22. Le. 19. 3. Ep. 6. 1..3. chap. 3. 29. * chap. 4. 40. y chap. 1. 4. Nu. 21. 24, &c. Mat.5.21,22 a Pr. 6.32, 33. Mat.5.27,28 Ja. 2. 11. b Ro. 13. 9. Ep. 4. 28. c Mal. 3. 5. a chap. 2. 36. d e Hab. 2. 9. Lu. 12. 15. Ro. 7. 7. He. 13. 5. g chap. 3. 17. AND Moses called all Israel, and said Ps. 133. 3. unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutesh Ex. 31. 18. and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, B keep to do and keep, and do them. 2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 3 The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. 5 (I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount,) saying, 6 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. them. 11 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. 13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work; 14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou. 15 And remember" that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence, through a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day. 2 16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 17 Thou shalt not kill. 18 Neither shalt thou commit a adultery. 19 Neither shalt thou steal. 20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour. 21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covete thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's. 22 These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice; them in two tables of stone, and delivered and he added no more: and he wrote them unto me. 23 And it came to pass, when ye heard Ex. 20.18,19 the voice out of the midst of the darkness, Ex. 19. 5..8. (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that He. 8. 9. ye came near unto me, even all the heads 7 ch.29.10..15 of your tribes, and your elders; m Ex. 19.9,18, 24 And ye said, Behold, the LORD our 19. God hath shewed us his glory and his 20.18..22. greatness, and we have heard his voice n Ex. 24. 2, 3. out of the midst of the fire: we have chap. 4. 33. seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth. Ga. 3. 19. 26 For who is there of all flesh that hath heard the voice of the living God 7 Thou shalt have none other gods Mat. 4. 10. speaking out of the midst of the fire, as before me. we have, and lived? 27 Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say; and a speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it. 28 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken. 29 Of that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever! 30 Go say to them, Get you into your tents again: 31 But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it. 32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you ye shall not turn asider to the right hand or to the left. be 33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess. CHAPTER VI. d Je. 25. 6. Ps. 81. 13. 32. go 28.14. Canaanites to be destroyed. olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten, and be full; 12 Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the and serve him, and shalt swear by his land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 13 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, name. 14 Yed shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you; 15 (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you,i) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth. 16 Yem shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah." 17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee. 18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers; 19 To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken. 20 And when thy son asketh thee Yin time to come, saying, What" mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the Nu.33.52,53 judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you? t Ps. 119. 6. Now these are the commandments, they to morrow. statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might dow them in the land whither ye go to possess it: 2 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee; thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged." 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey. 4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: u Ex. 13. 14. 21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand: 22 And the LORD shewed signs and w Eze. 37. 24. wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes: * Ex. VII.. XII. Ps. 135. 9. & pass over. * Pr. 3. 1, 2. Ec. 8. 12. Is. 3. 10. e chap.10.13. 5 And thou shalt love the LORD thye God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: m 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children," and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. 9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates. 10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not, 11 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and Ge. 22. 17. Ro. 10.3, 5. 23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers. 24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserved us alive, as it is at this day. C 25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us. CHAPTER VII. WHEN the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out* many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou: 32. John 17. 3. 1 Co. 8. 4, 6. h 2 Ki. 19. 15. 2 Ki. 23. 25. Ps. 44. 2, 3. 2 And when the LORD thy God shall Ge.15.19..21 deliver them before thee; thou shalt m Pr. 2. 10, 11.smite them, and utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: Conditions of God's mercy. DEUTERONOMY, VIII. their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire: 6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. B. C. 1451. statues, or pillars. chap. 14. a Ex.23.29,30 Ex. 19. 6. 2. 12. 1. c1 Pe. 2. 9. 7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were y before thy face. more in number than any people; for yed Jos. 10. 24, were the fewest of all people; 42. 8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oathe chap. 10.22. which he had sworn unto your fathers, fchap. 25.19. hath the LORD brought you out with ag chap. 11.25. mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God," which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations; 10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face. 11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them: 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if hearken" to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: Is. 54. 17. Idolatry to be avoided. out those nations before thee by a little and little thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee. them unto y thee, and shall destroy them 23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed. 24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them. 25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, Ge. 22.16,17 nor take it unto thee, lest thou be "snared Lu. 1.72,73. therein: for it is an abomination to the Ex. 12.41,42 LORD thy God. Ex. 32. 20. 1 Ch. 14. 12. Jos. 7. 1,21. m Ex. 13.3,14. 20.2. n Ju. 8. 27. 1 Co. 10.13. 1 John 1.9. Da. 9. 4. chap. 32.35. Is. 59. 18. Jos.6.17,18. t Ps. 119. 6. ch. 28.1,&c. 29. 5. 13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 14 Thou shalt be blessed above all peo-Job 33. 17. ple: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. 15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee. Am. 2.10. Ps. 136. 16. Ex. 16. 4. a 29. e Ne. 9. 21. &c. 16 And thou shalt consume all the peo-Ex. 23. 26, ple which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee: thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare' unto thee. 17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? 18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them; but shalt well remember" what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; Pr. 3. 12. Re. 3. 19. h Ex. 9. 14. 1 Sa. 12. 24. chap. 12.30. Ju. 8. 27. Ps. 106. 36. tree of oil. 19 The great temptations? which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretch-m chap. 31. 6. ed out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid. 20 Moreover, the LORD thy God will send the hornett among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed. 21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible. 26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing. CHAPTER VIII. ALL the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD Sware unto your fathers. 2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. 3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know, that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every wordd that proIceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live. 4 Thye raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. 5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. 6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; 8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; 9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. |