Deuteronomy 29 Footnotes

29:1 This is a clear statement attesting to Moses’s authorship of Deuteronomy.

29:20 The reason for the harshness of God’s judgment here is to be found in the nature of the offense being punished, idolatry (v. 18). Such an act was not only intrinsically evil because of the depravity of pagan religions; in the context of the covenant with the Lord it was nothing short of high treason, the worst of all possible offenses. To worship other “gods” is to deny God his very existence and his sovereignty.