Deuteronomy 29:10-29

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,
11 together with your children and your wives, and the foreigners living in your camps who chop your wood and carry your water.
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,
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.
14 I am making this covenant, with its oath, not only with you
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.
16 You yourselves know how we lived in Egypt and how we passed through the countries on the way here.
17 You saw among them their detestable images and idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold.
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.
19 When such a person hears the words of this oath and they invoke a blessing on themselves, thinking, “I will be safe, even though I persist in going my own way,” they will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
20 The LORD will never be willing to forgive them; his wrath and zeal will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will fall on them, and the LORD will blot out their names from under heaven.
21 The LORD will single them out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.
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.
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 Zeboyim, which the LORD overthrew in fierce anger.
24 All the nations will ask: “Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?”
25 And the answer will be: “It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.
26 They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them.
27 Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book.
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 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.

Cross References 28

  • 1. Jos 9:21,23,27; 1 Chronicles 20:3
  • 2. S Genesis 6:18; S Exodus 19:6; Deuteronomy 28:9
  • 3. S Genesis 17:7; Exodus 6:7
  • 4. Exodus 19:5; Isaiah 59:21; Jeremiah 31:31; Jeremiah 32:40; Jeremiah 50:5; Ezekiel 16:62; Ezekiel 37:26; Hebrews 8:7-8
  • 5. S Genesis 6:18; Acts 2:39
  • 6. Exodus 20:23; Deuteronomy 4:28; Deuteronomy 28:36
  • 7. S Deuteronomy 13:6
  • 8. S Deuteronomy 11:16; Hebrews 12:15
  • 9. Psalms 72:17; Isaiah 65:16
  • 10. Psalms 36:2
  • 11. S Exodus 23:21
  • 12. Exodus 34:14; Ezekiel 23:25; Zephaniah 1:18
  • 13. Psalms 74:1; Psalms 79:5; Psalms 80:4; Ezekiel 36:5
  • 14. Exodus 32:33; Deuteronomy 9:14; 2 Kings 13:23; 2 Kings 14:27; Revelation 3:5
  • 15. Deuteronomy 32:23; Ezekiel 7:26
  • 16. S Deuteronomy 28:61
  • 17. Jeremiah 19:8; Jeremiah 49:17; Jeremiah 50:13
  • 18. Isaiah 1:7; Isaiah 6:11; Isaiah 9:18; Isaiah 64:10; Jeremiah 12:11; Jeremiah 44:2,6; Micah 5:11; Isaiah 34:9
  • 19. S Genesis 13:10; Ezekiel 47:11; Jeremiah 17:6
  • 20. S Genesis 19:24,25; Zephaniah 2:9; S Matthew 10:15; Romans 9:29
  • 21. S Genesis 14:8
  • 22. 1 Kings 9:8; 2 Chronicles 36:19; Jeremiah 16:10; Jeremiah 22:8-9; Jeremiah 52:13
  • 23. 2 Kings 17:23; 2 Chronicles 36:21
  • 24. S Deuteronomy 28:15; Da 9:11,13,14
  • 25. Psalms 7:11
  • 26. 1 Kings 14:15; 2 Chronicles 7:20; Psalms 9:6; Psalms 52:5; Proverbs 2:22; Jeremiah 12:14; Jeremiah 31:28; Jeremiah 42:10; Ezekiel 19:12
  • 27. Acts 1:7
  • 28. John 5:39; Acts 17:11; 2 Timothy 3:16
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