As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God. Jump to: Barnes • Benson • BI • Calvin • Cambridge • Clarke • Darby • Ellicott • Expositor's • Exp Dct • Gaebelein • GSB • Gill • Gray • Guzik • Haydock • Hastings • Homiletics • JFB • KD • King • Lange • MacLaren • MHC • MHCW • Parker • Poole • Pulpit • Sermon • SCO • TTB • WES • TSK EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE) (20) Because ye would not be obedient.—In return for your disobedience. The same word is employed in Deuteronomy 7:12. The use of the word in these two places might fairly be taken to mark off the intervening portion as a complete section of the discourse.Deuteronomy 8:20. So shall ye perish — Assure yourselves, if you apostatize from the worship and service of God, and relapse into idolatry, irreligion, or vice, your nation will be involved in the same ruin and destruction that you are now going to execute upon the Canaanites for the like national sins. These cautions and exhortations which Moses here so forcibly and pathetically gives to the Israelites ought to be well observed and laid to heart by us all, to every one of whom they are equally necessary. who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint—(See on [122]De 9:21). because ye would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God; expressed in his law, especially in the two first precepts of it, which require the worship of one God, and forbid the worshipping of idols; or to the Word of the Lord, as the Targum of Jonathan, Christ, the essential Word, in whom the name of the Lord was, and whose voice Israel was to obey, Exodus 23:20. EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES) 20. maketh to perish] is about to, etc. Here the writer is true to the standpoint of the speaker.because ye would not hearken, etc.] The construction is found elsewhere only in another Pl. passage, Deuteronomy 7:12. Deuteronomy 8:20To strengthen his admonition, Moses pointed again in conclusion, as he had already done in Deuteronomy 6:14 (cf. Deuteronomy 4:25.), to the destruction which would come upon Israel through apostasy from its God. Links Deuteronomy 8:20 InterlinearDeuteronomy 8:20 Parallel Texts Deuteronomy 8:20 NIV Deuteronomy 8:20 NLT Deuteronomy 8:20 ESV Deuteronomy 8:20 NASB Deuteronomy 8:20 KJV Deuteronomy 8:20 Bible Apps Deuteronomy 8:20 Parallel Deuteronomy 8:20 Biblia Paralela Deuteronomy 8:20 Chinese Bible Deuteronomy 8:20 French Bible Deuteronomy 8:20 German Bible Bible Hub |