Deuteronomy 29:2-29

Deuteronomy 29:2-29

[2] And Moses  called  unto all Israel,  and said  unto them, Ye have seen  all that the LORD  did  before your eyes  in the land  of Egypt  unto Pharaoh,  and unto all his servants,  and unto all his land;  [3] The great  temptations  which thine eyes  have seen,  the signs,  and those great  miracles:  [4] Yet the LORD  hath not given  you an heart  to perceive,  and eyes  to see,  and ears  to hear,  unto this day.  [5] you forty  years  in the wilderness:  your clothes  are not waxen old  upon you, and thy shoe  is not waxen old  upon thy foot.  [6] Ye have not eaten  bread,  neither have ye drunk  wine  or strong drink:  that ye might know  that I am the LORD  your God.  [7] And when ye came  unto this place,  Sihon  the king  of Heshbon,  and Og  the king  of Bashan,  came out  against  us unto battle,  and we smote  [8] And we took  their land,  and gave  it for an inheritance  unto the Reubenites,  and to the Gadites,  and to the half  tribe  of Manasseh.  [9] Keep  therefore the words  of this covenant,  and do  them, that ye may prosper  in all that ye do.  [10] Ye stand  this day  all of you before  the LORD  your God;  your captains  of your tribes,  your elders,  and your officers,  with all the men  of Israel,  [11] Your little ones,  your wives,  and thy stranger  that is in  thy camp,  from the hewer  of thy wood  unto the drawer  of thy water:  [12] That thou shouldest enter  into covenant  with the LORD  thy God,  and into his oath,  which the LORD  thy God  maketh  with thee this day:  [13] That he may establish  thee to day  for a people  unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God,  as he hath said  unto thee, and as he hath sworn  unto thy fathers,  to Abraham,  to Isaac,  and to Jacob.  [14] Neither with you only do I make  this covenant  and this oath;  [15] But with him that standeth  here with us this  day  before  the LORD  our God,  and also with him that is not here with us this day:  [16] (For ye know  how we have dwelt  in the land  of Egypt;  and how we came  through  the nations  which ye passed by;  [17] And ye have seen  their abominations,  and their idols,  wood  and stone,  silver  and gold,  [18] Lest there should be  among you man,  or woman,  or family,  or tribe,  whose heart  turneth away  this day  from the LORD  our God,  and serve  the gods  of these nations;  lest there should be  among you a root  that beareth  gall  and wormwood;  [19] And it come to pass, when he heareth  the words  of this curse,  that he bless  himself in his heart,  saying,  I shall have peace,  though  in the imagination  of mine heart,  to add  drunkenness  to thirst:  [20] The LORD  will  not spare  him, but then the anger  of the LORD  and his jealousy  shall smoke  against that man,  and all the curses  that are written  in this book  shall lie  upon him, and the LORD  shall blot out  his name  from under heaven.  [21] And the LORD  shall separate  him unto evil  out of all the tribes  of Israel,  according to all the curses  of the covenant  that are written  in this book  of the law:  [22] So that the generation  to come  of your children  that shall rise up  after  you, and the stranger  that shall come  from a far  land,  shall say,  when they see  the plagues  of that land,  and the sicknesses  which the LORD  hath laid  upon it; [23] And that the whole land  thereof is brimstone,  and salt,  and burning,  that it is not sown,  nor beareth,  nor any grass  groweth  therein, like the overthrow  of Sodom,  and Gomorrah,  Admah,  and Zeboim,  which the LORD  overthrew  in his anger,  and in his wrath:  [24] Even all nations  shall say,  Wherefore hath the LORD  done  thus unto this land?  what meaneth the heat  of this great  anger?  [25] Then men shall say,  Because they have forsaken  the covenant  of the LORD  God  of their fathers,  which he made  with them when he brought them forth  out of the land  of Egypt:  [26] and served  other  gods,  and worshipped  them, gods  whom they knew  not, and whom he had not given  unto them: [27] And the anger  of the LORD  was kindled  against this land,  to bring  upon it all the curses  that are written  in this book:  [28] And the LORD  rooted  them out of their land  in anger,  and in wrath,  and in great  indignation,  and cast  them into another  land,  as it is this day.  [29] The secret  things belong unto the LORD  our God:  but those things which are revealed  belong unto us and to our children  for  ever,  that we may do  all the words  of this law. 

What does Deuteronomy 29:2-29 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

Moses began his third address to the Israelites with an appeal for them to remain faithful to their suzerain lord and His covenant with them.