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Deuteronomy 4:26

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26 I 1call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will 2surely perish quickly from the land where * you are going over the Jordan to possess it. You shall not live long * on it, but will be utterly destroyed.
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Deuteronomy 4:26 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day
Should they be guilty of such a sin, since they were so strongly and publicly cautioned against it; and even the heaven and the earth were called upon as witnesses of the law being set before them, which so expressly forbids it, ( Deuteronomy 30:19 )

that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go
over Jordan to possess it;
though they were now about to go over Jordan and inherit the land of Canaan, yet they would not enjoy it long, but be taken and carried captive out of it; as the ten tribes were by Shalmaneser king of Assyria, and the two tribes by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and both for their idolatry and other crimes.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Deuteronomy 4:26 In-Context

24 "For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
25 "When you become the father of children and children's children and have remained long in the land, and act corruptly, and make an idol in the form of anything, and do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD your God so as to provoke Him to anger,
26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will surely perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to possess it. You shall not live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed.
27 "The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD drives you.
28 "There you will serve gods, the work of man's hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

Cross References 2

  • 1. Deuteronomy 30:19; Deuteronomy 31:28; Deuteronomy 32:1; Isaiah 1:2; Micah 6:2
  • 2. Deuteronomy 7:4; Deuteronomy 8:19, 20

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Lit "prolong your days"
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