Deuteronomy 31:17

Overview - Deuteronomy 31
Moses encourages the people.
He encourages Joshua.
He delivers the law unto the priests to be read in the seventh year to the people.
14 God gives a charge to Joshua;
19 and a song to testify against the people.
24 Moses delivers the book of the law to the Levites to keep.
28 He makes a protestation.
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Deuteronomy 31:17  (King James Version)
Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
 


my anger
29:20 Deuteronomy 32:21 Deuteronomy 32:22 Judges 2:14 Judges 2:15 ; Psalms 2:12 ; 90:11

I will forsake
1 Chronicles 28:9 ; 2 Chronicles 15:2 ; Jeremiah 23:33 Jeremiah 23:39 ; Hosea 9:12

hide my face
Though this may allude to the withdrawing of the {Shechinah,} or visible appearance of Jehovah, yet the general meaning of the expression in Scripture is, the withdrawing of his approbation and protection, of which his visible appearance was formerly the sign and pledge.
32:20 Job 13:24 ; Psalms 27:9 ; 30:7 89:46 104:29 Isaiah 8:17 ; 64:7
Ezekiel 39:23 Ezekiel 39:24 Ezekiel 39:29

befal them
Hebrew find them.
Nehemiah 9:32 ; *marg:
Job 34:11

Are not these
29:24-27 Numbers 14:42 ; Judges 6:13 ; Isaiah 63:17