Deuteronomy 30:19-20

19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, ¹blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,

20 loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice ²and holding fast to him, for ³he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in ⁴the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them."

Deuteronomy 30:19-20 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 30

This chapter contains some gracious promises of the conversion of the Jews in the latter day, of their calling things to mind that have befallen them, of their repentance, and the circumcision of their hearts to love the Lord, of the return of them to their own land, and of the great increase of them, and of their enjoyment of plenty of good things, De 30:1-10; in it is an account of the Gospel, or word of faith, which at this time should be brought near to the Jews, and be received by them, De 30:11-14; and for the present Moses desires them to consider what he now set before them, and what would be the consequences of receiving or rejecting it, and so what it would be most proper for them to make choice of, De 30:15-20.

Cross References

• 1. ver. 1
• 2. See Deuteronomy 10:20
• 3. Psalms 27:1; Psalms 66:9; John 11:25
• 4. See Deuteronomy 1:8