Deuteronomy 31
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And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.
And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

I am an The life of Moses, the great prophet of Jehovah and lawgiver of the Jews, was exactly the same in length as the time Noah employed in preaching righteousness to the antediluvian world. These one hundred and twenty years were divided into three remarkable periods. Forty years he lived in Egypt, in the court of Pharaoh, acquiring all the learning and wisdom of the Egyptians

Acts 7:20,23 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished …

forty years he sojourned in Midian, in a state of preparation for his great and important mission

Acts 7:29,30 Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of …

and forty years he guided, led, and governed the Israelites under the express direction and authority of God: in all

Deuteronomy 34:7 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye …

Exodus 7:7 And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three …

Joshua 14:10,11 And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as he said, these forty …

Psalm 90:10 The days of our years are three score years and ten; and if by reason …

Acts 7:23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit …

I can no more

Deuteronomy 34:7 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye …

Numbers 27:17 Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and …

2 Samuel 21:17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succored him, and smote the Philistine, …

1 Kings 3:7 And now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king instead of …

Thou shalt not

Deuteronomy 3:26,27 But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear …

Deuteronomy 4:21,22 Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore …

Deuteronomy 32:48-52 And the LORD spoke to Moses that selfsame day, saying…

Numbers 20:12 And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, Because you believed me not, …

Numbers 27:13,14 And when you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, …

Acts 20:25 And now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I have gone preaching …

2 Peter 1:13,14 Yes, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir …

The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said.
And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.
And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.
Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Be strong

Deuteronomy 31:7,23 And Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, …

Deuteronomy 20:4 For the LORD your God is he that goes with you, to fight for you …

Joshua 1:6,7,9 Be strong and of a good courage: for to this people shall you divide …

Joshua 10:25 And Joshua said to them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and …

1 Chronicles 22:13 Then shall you prosper, if you take heed to fulfill the statutes …

1 Chronicles 28:10,20 Take heed now; for the LORD has chosen you to build an house for …

2 Chronicles 32:7 Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king …

Psalm 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your …

Isaiah 43:1-5 But now thus said the LORD that created you, O Jacob, and he that …

Haggai 2:4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, said the LORD; and be strong, O …

Zechariah 8:13 And it shall come to pass, that as you were a curse among the heathen, …

1 Corinthians 16:13 Watch you, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

Ephesians 6:10 Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

2 Timothy 2:1 You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

fear not

Deuteronomy 1:29 Then I said to you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.

Deuteronomy 7:18 You shall not be afraid of them: but shall well remember what the …

Deuteronomy 20:1,3,4 When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, and …

Numbers 14:9 Only rebel not you against the LORD, neither fear you the people …

Psalm 27:1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD …

Isaiah 41:10 Fear you not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: …

Isaiah 51:12 I, even I, am he that comforts you: who are you, that you should …

Luke 12:32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to …

Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, …

he will not fail

Deuteronomy 4:31 (For the LORD your God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake you, …

Joshua 1:5 There shall not any man be able to stand before you all the days …

1 Chronicles 28:20 And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, …

Isaiah 41:13-17 For I the LORD your God will hold your right hand, saying to you, …

Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with …

And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.
And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel.

Moses

Deuteronomy 31:22-24,28 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children …

Numbers 33:2 And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the …

Daniel 9:13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come on us: …

Malachi 4:4 Remember you the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him …

Mark 10:4,5 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorce, and to put her away…

Mark 12:19 Master, Moses wrote to us, If a man's brother die, and leave his …

Luke 20:28 Saying, Master, Moses wrote to us, If any man's brother die, having …

John 1:17,45 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ…

John 5:46 For had you believed Moses, you would have believed me; for he wrote of me.

delivered

Deuteronomy 31:24-26 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words …

Deuteronomy 17:18 And it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom…

the priests

Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected …

Malachi 2:7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek …

which bare

Numbers 4:15 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, …

Joshua 3:3,14-17 And they commanded the people, saying, When you see the ark of the …

Joshua 6:12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the …

1 Kings 8:3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

1 Chronicles 15:2,12-15 Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: …

And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:
And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.

that thou must die

Deuteronomy 31:2 And he said to them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; …

Deuteronomy 34:5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, …

Numbers 27:13 And when you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, …

Joshua 23:14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and you …

2 Kings 1:4 Now therefore thus said the LORD, You shall not come down from that …

Ecclesiastes 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any …

Isaiah 38:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. And Isaiah the prophet …

I may give

Deuteronomy 31:23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and …

Numbers 27:19,20 And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; …

Acts 20:28-31 Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, over the …

2 Timothy 4:1-4 I charge you therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who …

presented

Exodus 34:2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to mount …

Joshua 24:1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called …

1 Samuel 10:19 And you have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out …

Job 1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves …

Job 2:1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves …

Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you …

Jude 1:24 Now to him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present …

And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

thou shalt

Genesis 25:8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old …

2 Samuel 7:12 And when your days be fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, …

Isaiah 57:2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one …

Acts 13:36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of …

sleep [heb] lie down Shochaiv, `lying down:' it signifies to rest, take rest in sleep, and metaphorically, to die. Though much stress cannot be safely laid upon the expression to prove the immortality of the soul, or that the people, in the time of Moses, had a distinct notion of its separate existence; yet is was understood in this sense by Jonathan, who paraphrases the words thus, `Thou shalt lie down in the dust with thy fathers; and thy soul {nishmatoch) shall be laid up in the treasury of the life to come, with thy fathers.'

Job 20:11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down …

and go a

Exodus 32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, …

Exodus 34:15 Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they …

Leviticus 20:3-6 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from …

Judges 2:17-20 And yet they would not listen to their judges, but they went a whoring …

Psalm 73:27 For, see, they that are far from you shall perish: you have destroyed …

Psalm 106:39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with …

Isaiah 57:3-8 But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer …

Jeremiah 3:1-3 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become …

Ezekiel 16:15,25-36 But you did trust in your own beauty, and played the harlot because …

Ezekiel 23:5-8 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on …

Hosea 2:2-5 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am …

Revelation 17:2-5 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication…

Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great …

forsake me

Deuteronomy 32:15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: you are waxen fat, you are grown …

Judges 2:12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them …

Judges 10:6,13 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, …

Jeremiah 2:11-13 Has a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people …

break me

Leviticus 26:15 And if you shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, …

Judges 2:20 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said…

Jeremiah 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the …

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

Deuteronomy 29:20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his …

Deuteronomy 32:21,22 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have …

Judges 2:14,15 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered …

Psalm 2:12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish from the way, when …

Psalm 90:11 Who knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so …

I will forsake

1 Chronicles 28:9 And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve …

2 Chronicles 15:2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear you me, Asa, and …

Jeremiah 23:33,39 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, …

Hosea 9:12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that …

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.

Deuteronomy 32:20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their …

Job 13:24 Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?

Psalm 27:9 Hide not your face far from me; put not your servant away in anger: …

Psalm 30:7 LORD, by your favor you have made my mountain to stand strong: you …

Psalm 89:46 How long, LORD? will you hide yourself for ever? shall your wrath …

Psalm 104:29 You hide your face, they are troubled: you take away their breath, …

Isaiah 8:17 And I will wait on the LORD, that hides his face from the house of …

Isaiah 64:7 And there is none that calls on your name, that stirs up himself …

Ezekiel 39:23,24,29 And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity …

befall them [heb] find them

Nehemiah 9:32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, …

Job 34:11 For the work of a man shall he render to him, and cause every man …

Are not these

Deuteronomy 29:24-27 Even all nations shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land? …

Numbers 14:42 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that you be not smitten …

Judges 6:13 And Gideon said to him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then …

Isaiah 63:17 O LORD, why have you made us to err from your ways, and hardened …

And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.
Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.
Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.
And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,
Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.
For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

corrupt yourselves

Deuteronomy 32:5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his …

Judges 2:19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, …

Isaiah 1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, …

Hosea 9:9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: …

Acts 20:30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, …

2 Timothy 3:1-6 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come…

2 Peter 1:14,15 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our …

2 Peter 2:1,2 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there …

and evil

Deuteronomy 28:15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of …

Deuteronomy 29:18-28 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, …

Leviticus 26:14 But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;

2 Chronicles 34:24 Thus said the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and …

Luke 19:42-44 Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day…

Luke 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away …

the latter days

Deuteronomy 4:30 When you are in tribulation, and all these things are come on you, …

Genesis 49:1 And Jacob called to his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, …

Job 19:25 For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the …

Ezekiel 38:8 After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall …

1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall …

2 Timothy 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

Hebrews 1:2 Has in these last days spoken to us by his Son, whom he has appointed …

2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, …

And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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