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Deuteronomy 11:16-32

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16 Take care 1lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and 2serve other gods and worship them;
17 then 3the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and he 4will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and 5you will perish quickly off the good land that the LORD is giving you.
18 6"You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and 7you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
19 You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
20 8You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
21 9that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, 10as long as the heavens are above the earth.
22 For if 11you will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do, loving the LORD your God, walking in all his ways, and 12holding fast to him,
23 then the LORD 13 will drive out all these nations before you, and you will 14dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
24 15Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be 16from the wilderness to[a] the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea.
25 17No one shall be able to stand against you. The LORD your God will lay 18the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread, 19as he promised you.
26 20"See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:
27 21the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today,
28 and 22the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, 23to go after other gods that you have not known.
29 And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set 24the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
30 Are they not beyond the Jordan, west of the road, toward the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the 25Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside 26the oak[b] of Moreh?
31 For you are 27to cross over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving you. And when you possess it and live in it,
32 you shall be careful 28to do all the statutes and the rules that I am setting before you today.
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Deuteronomy 11:16-32 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 11

In this chapter, the exhortation to love the Lord, and keep his commands, is repeated and urged again and again from various considerations; as not only from the chastisement of Pharaoh and the wicked Egyptians, but of such Israelites who offended the Lord, and transgressed his law, De 12:1-7, from the goodness and excellency of the land they were going to inherit, De 11:8-11, from the blessing of rain that would come upon it, and be productive of all good things for man and beast, in case of obedience, and a restraint of it in case of disobedience, De 11:12-17, from the continuance of them and their offspring in the land, should they be careful to observe the commands themselves, and teach them their children, De 11:18-21, and from the extensiveness of their conquests and dominions, De 11:22-25 and from the different issue and effects of their conduct and behaviour, a blessing upon them if obedient, but a curse if disobedient, De 11:26-28 and the chapter is concluded with an exhortation to pronounce the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal; the situation of which places is described when they should come into the land of Canaan, of which they are assured, De 11:29-32.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 28

  • 1. [Job 31:27]
  • 2. ver. 28; See Deuteronomy 6:14
  • 3. Deuteronomy 6:15
  • 4. 1 Kings 8:35; 2 Chronicles 6:26; 2 Chronicles 7:13; [Deuteronomy 28:23, 24; Leviticus 26:19, 20; Amos 4:7; Zechariah 14:17; Revelation 11:6]
  • 5. Deuteronomy 4:26; Deuteronomy 30:18; Joshua 23:15, 16
  • 6. See Deuteronomy 6:6
  • 7. See Deuteronomy 6:8
  • 8. Deuteronomy 6:9
  • 9. See Deuteronomy 4:40
  • 10. Psalms 89:29
  • 11. Deuteronomy 6:17
  • 12. See Deuteronomy 10:20
  • 13. See Deuteronomy 4:38
  • 14. Deuteronomy 9:1
  • 15. Joshua 1:3; [Joshua 14:9]
  • 16. See Exodus 23:31
  • 17. See Deuteronomy 7:24
  • 18. Deuteronomy 2:25
  • 19. Exodus 23:27
  • 20. Deuteronomy 30:1, 15, 19
  • 21. See Deuteronomy 28:2-14
  • 22. See Deuteronomy 28:15-45
  • 23. See Deuteronomy 6:14
  • 24. Deuteronomy 27:12, 13; Joshua 8:33
  • 25. See Deuteronomy 1:1
  • 26. Judges 7:1
  • 27. Deuteronomy 9:1; Deuteronomy 12:10; Joshua 1:11
  • 28. Deuteronomy 5:32; Deuteronomy 12:32

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Hebrew and
  • [b]. Septuagint, Syriac; see Genesis 12:6. Hebrew oaks, or terebinths
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