Deuteronomy bible study chapters 27 through 34

 

Here are the concluding 8 chapters of Deuteronomy, chapters 27 through 34 which really and forcefully drive home the critical importance for the Israelites to obey God and His commandments enumerating the consequences both for obedience and rebellion and refusing to obey. Even though we are under grace these chapters have blessings that apply to us today too as Christians. They also encourage repentance for those who fall away, and encourage people to choose life. Moses sees the Promised Land by going up in a mountain, and then dies there because he is not allowed to go to the promised land with the Israelis because of his disobedience and unbelief in Numbers 20, where he struck a rock when he was supposed to speak and command it to bring forth its water. Here is a link to the previous chapters for those who might want to do a bible study of the whole book of Deuteronomy

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In Deuteronomy 27 the chapter strongly encouraging the Israelites to do all the laws then curses those who break the law by evil deeds like incest, bestiality, murder and generally not loving your neighbor

(Deuteronomy 27:1)  Now Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, "Keep the whole commandment that I command you today.

 

(Deuteronomy 27:2)  And on the day you cross over the Jordan to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall set up large stones and plaster them with plaster.

 

(Deuteronomy 27:3)  And you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you cross over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.

 

(Deuteronomy 27:4)  And when you have crossed over the Jordan, you shall set up these stones, concerning which I command you today, on Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.

 

(Deuteronomy 27:5)  And there you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You shall wield no iron tool on them;

 

(Deuteronomy 27:6)  you shall build an altar to the LORD your God of uncut stones. And you shall offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God,

 

(Deuteronomy 27:7)  and you shall sacrifice peace offerings and shall eat there, and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God.

 

(Deuteronomy 27:8)  And you shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly."

 

(Deuteronomy 27:9)  Then Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, "Keep silence and hear, O Israel: this day you have become the people of the LORD your God.

 

(Deuteronomy 27:10)  You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today."

 

(Deuteronomy 27:11)  That day Moses charged the people, saying,

 

(Deuteronomy 27:12)  "When you have crossed over the Jordan, these shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

 

(Deuteronomy 27:13)  And these shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

 

(Deuteronomy 27:14)  And the Levites shall declare to all the men of Israel in a loud voice:

 

(Deuteronomy 27:15)  "'Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image, an abomination to the LORD, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.' And all the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.'

 

(Deuteronomy 27:16)  "'Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

 

(Deuteronomy 27:17)  "'Cursed be anyone who moves his neighbor's landmark.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

 

(Deuteronomy 27:18)  "'Cursed be anyone who misleads a blind man on the road.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

 

(Deuteronomy 27:19)  "'Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

 

(Deuteronomy 27:20)  "'Cursed be anyone who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's nakedness.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

 

(Deuteronomy 27:21)  "'Cursed be anyone who lies with any kind of animal.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

 

(Deuteronomy 27:22)  "'Cursed be anyone who lies with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

 

(Deuteronomy 27:23)  "'Cursed be anyone who lies with his mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

 

(Deu 27:24)  "'Cursed be anyone who strikes down his neighbor in secret.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

 

(Deu 27:25)  "'Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

 

(Deu 27:26)  "'Cursed be anyone who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

 

Deuteronomy 28 is the blessings and curses chapter, blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience and rebellions of God’s laws. It is a good chapter to read over carefully, and repenting of anything wrong the Holy Spirit might bring to mind that needs to be repented of that grieves God, and also to see all the blessings and curses promised as a consequence of Israel’s (and to some degree today, too) decisions to obey and to disobey God

(Deuteronomy 28:1)  "And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:2)  And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the LORD your God.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:3)  Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:4)  Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:5)  Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:6)  Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:7)  "The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:8)  The LORD will command the blessing on you in your barns and in all that you undertake. And he will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:9)  The LORD will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in his ways.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:10)  And all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they shall be afraid of you.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:11)  And the LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, within the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:12)  The LORD will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:13)  And the LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them,

 

(Deuteronomy 28:14)  and if you do not turn aside from any of the words that I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:15)  "But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:16)  Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:17)  Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:18)  Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:19)  Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:20)  "The LORD will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:21)  The LORD will make the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:22)  The LORD will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought and with blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:23)  And the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:24)  The LORD will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:25)  "The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:26)  And your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and there shall be no one to frighten them away.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:27)  The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:28)  The LORD will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind,

 

(Deuteronomy 28:29)  and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:30)  You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:31)  Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat any of it. Your donkey shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to help you.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:32)  Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, but you shall be helpless.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:33)  A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually,

 

(Deuteronomy 28:34)  so that you are driven mad by the sights that your eyes see.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:35)  The LORD will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:36)  "The LORD will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:37)  And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:38)  You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:39)  You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:40)  You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:41)  You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for they shall go into captivity.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:42)  The cricket shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:43)  The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:44)  He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:45)  "All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:46)  They shall be a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:47)  Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things,

 

(Deuteronomy 28:48)  therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:49)  The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,

 

(Deuteronomy 28:50)  a hard-faced nation who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:51)  It shall eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:52)  "They shall besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:53)  And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:54)  The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left,

 

(Deuteronomy 28:55)  so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:56)  The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces, to her son and to her daughter,

 

(Deuteronomy 28:57)  her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:58)  "If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, the LORD your God,

 

(Deuteronomy 28:59)  then the LORD will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:60)  And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:61)  Every sickness also and every affliction that is not recorded in the book of this law, the LORD will bring upon you, until you are destroyed.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:62)  Whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:63)  And as the LORD took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the LORD will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:64)  "And the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:65)  And among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:66)  Your life shall hang in doubt before you. Night and day you shall be in dread and have no assurance of your life.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:67)  In the morning you shall say, 'If only it were evening!' and at evening you shall say, 'If only it were morning!' because of the dread that your heart shall feel, and the sights that your eyes shall see.

 

(Deuteronomy 28:68)  And the LORD will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer."

 

In Deuteronomy chapter 29 Moses goes through some of the events while the Isrealites were wandering in the wilderness, including the fact that their clothes and sandals never wore out after 40 years and a reminder again to obey to avoid judgments

(Deuteronomy 29:1)  These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that he had made with them at Horeb.

 

(Deuteronomy 29:2)  And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: "You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land,

 

(Deuteronomy 29:3)  the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.

 

(Deuteronomy 29:4)  But to this day the LORD has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.

 

(Deuteronomy 29:5)  I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet.

 

(Deuteronomy 29:6)  You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.

 

(Deuteronomy 29:7)  And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, but we defeated them.

 

(Deuteronomy 29:8)  We took their land and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites.

 

(Deuteronomy 29:9)  Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

 

(Deuteronomy 29:10)  "You are standing today all of you before the LORD your God: the heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,

 

(Deuteronomy 29:11)  your little ones, your wives, and the sojourner who is in your camp, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water,

 

(Deuteronomy 29:12)  so that you may enter into the sworn covenant of the LORD your God, which the LORD your God is making with you today,

 

(Deuteronomy 29:13)  that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

 

(Deuteronomy 29:14)  It is not with you alone that I am making this sworn covenant,

 

(Deuteronomy 29:15)  but with whoever is standing here with us today before the LORD our God, and with whoever is not here with us today.

 

(Deuteronomy 29:16)  "You know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed.

 

(Deuteronomy 29:17)  And you have seen their detestable things, their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them.

 

(Deuteronomy 29:18)  Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,

 

(Deuteronomy 29:19)  one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, 'I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.' This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.

 

(Deuteronomy 29:20)  The LORD will not be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.

 

(Deuteronomy 29:21)  And the LORD will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for calamity, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

 

(Deuteronomy 29:22)  And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, will say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the LORD has made it sick--

 

(Deuteronomy 29:23)  the whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and wrath--

 

(Deuteronomy 29:24)  all the nations will say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?'

 

(Deuteronomy 29:25)  Then people will say, 'It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,

 

(Deuteronomy 29:26)  and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them.

 

(Deuteronomy 29:27)  Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, bringing upon it all the curses written in this book,

 

(Deuteronomy 29:28)  and the LORD uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as they are this day.'

 

(Deuteronomy 29:29)  "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

 

In Deuteronomy chapter 30 the people even if scattered are very strongly encouraged then to repent of their wickedness and rebellion and again follow and obey God so the curses may then fall on those who are oppressing them, and then once again the encouragement to obey is given

(Deuteronomy 30:1)  "And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,

 

(Deuteronomy 30:2)  and return to the LORD your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul,

 

(Deuteronomy 30:3)  then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you.

 

(Deuteronomy 30:4)  If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there he will take you.

 

(Deuteronomy 30:5)  And the LORD your God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed, that you may possess it. And he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers.

 

(Deuteronomy 30:6)  And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

 

(Deuteronomy 30:7)  And the LORD your God will put all these curses on your foes and enemies who persecuted you.

 

(Deuteronomy 30:8)  And you shall again obey the voice of the LORD and keep all his commandments that I command you today.

 

(Deuteronomy 30:9)  The LORD your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. For the LORD will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers,

 

(Deuteronomy 30:10)  when you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, when you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

 

(Deuteronomy 30:11)  "For this commandment that I command you today is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.

 

(Deuteronomy 30:12)  It is not in heaven, that you should say, 'Who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?'

 

(Deuteronomy 30:13)  Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, 'Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?'

 

(Deuteronomy 30:14)  But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it.

 

(Deuteronomy 30:15)  "See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil.

 

(Deuteronomy 30:16)  If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

 

(Deuteronomy 30:17)  But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them,

 

(Deuteronomy 30:18)  I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess.

 

(Deuteronomy 30:19)  I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,

 

(Deuteronomy 30:20)  loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them."

 

In Deuteronomy chapter 31 Moses then encourages the people not to fear anything in the promised land because the enemies will be given over to them by the Lord and then the Lord asks Moses to commission Joshua to lead the people and then prepares to give Moses a song for the people

(Deuteronomy 31:1)  So Moses continued to speak these words to all Israel.

 

(Deuteronomy 31:2)  And he said to them, "I am 120 years old today. I am no longer able to go out and come in. The LORD has said to me, 'You shall not go over this Jordan.'

 

(Deuteronomy 31:3)  The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the LORD has spoken.

 

(Deuteronomy 31:4)  And the LORD will do to them as he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them.

 

(Deuteronomy 31:5)  And the LORD will give them over to you, and you shall do to them according to the whole commandment that I have commanded you.

 

(Deuteronomy 31:6)  Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you."

 

(Deuteronomy 31:7)  Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land that the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall put them in possession of it.

 

(Deuteronomy 31:8)  It is the LORD who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed."

 

(Deuteronomy 31:9)  Then Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.

 

(Deuteronomy 31:10)  And Moses commanded them, "At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year of release, at the Feast of Booths,

 

(Deuteronomy 31:11)  when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God at the place that he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

 

(Deuteronomy 31:12)  Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law,

 

(Deuteronomy 31:13)  and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess."

 

(Deuteronomy 31:14)  And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, the days approach when you must die. Call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may commission him." And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.

 

(Deuteronomy 31:15)  And the LORD appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud. And the pillar of cloud stood over the entrance of the tent.

 

(Deuteronomy 31:16)  And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.

 

(Deuteronomy 31:17)  Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, 'Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?'

 

(Deuteronomy 31:18)  And I will surely hide my face in that day because of all the evil that they have done, because they have turned to other gods.

 

(Deuteronomy 31:19)  "Now therefore write this song and teach it to the people of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the people of Israel.

 

(Deuteronomy 31:20)  For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and grown fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant.

 

(Deuteronomy 31:21)  And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song shall confront them as a witness (for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their offspring). For I know what they are inclined to do even today, before I have brought them into the land that I swore to give."

 

(Deuteronomy 31:22)  So Moses wrote this song the same day and taught it to the people of Israel.

 

(Deuteronomy 31:23)  And the LORD commissioned Joshua the son of Nun and said, "Be strong and courageous, for you shall bring the people of Israel into the land that I swore to give them. I will be with you."

 

(Deuteronomy 31:24)  When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book to the very end,

 

(Deuteronomy 31:25)  Moses commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD,

 

(Deuteronomy 31:26)  "Take this Book of the Law and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.

 

(Deuteronomy 31:27)  For I know how rebellious and stubborn you are. Behold, even today while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the LORD. How much more after my death!

 

(Deuteronomy 31:28)  Assemble to 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 witness against them.

 

(Deuteronomy 31:29)  For I know that after my death you will surely act corruptly and turn aside from the way that I have commanded you. And in the days to come evil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger through the work of your hands."

 

(Deuteronomy 31:30)  Then Moses spoke the words of this song until they were finished, in the ears of all the assembly of Israel:

 

In Deuteronomy chapter 32 is indeed the song itself speaks of judgment and then reminds that He is God, capable of all then the Lord sent him up to a mountain where he will see the Promised Land but then die up in the mountain where the Lord has sent him due to Moses’ disobedience

(Deuteronomy 32:1)  "Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak, and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:2)  May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, like gentle rain upon the tender grass, and like showers upon the herb.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:3)  For I will proclaim the name of the LORD; ascribe greatness to our God!

 

(Deuteronomy 32:4)  "The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:5)  They have dealt corruptly with him; they are no longer his children because they are blemished; they are a crooked and twisted generation.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:6)  Do you thus repay the LORD, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?

 

(Deuteronomy 32:7)  Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:8)  When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:9)  But the LORD's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:10)  "He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:11)  Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions,

 

(Deuteronomy 32:12)  the LORD alone guided him, no foreign god was with him.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:13)  He made him ride on the high places of the land, and he ate the produce of the field, and he suckled him with honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:14)  Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of Bashan and goats, with the very finest of the wheat-- and you drank foaming wine made from the blood of the grape.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:15)  "But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:16)  They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:17)  They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:18)  You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:19)  "The LORD saw it and spurned them, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:20)  And he said, 'I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end will be, For they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:21)  They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:22)  For a fire is kindled by my anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:23)  "'And I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend my arrows on them;

 

(Deuteronomy 32:24)  they shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured by plague and poisonous pestilence; I will send the teeth of beasts against them, with the venom of things that crawl in the dust.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:25)  Outdoors the sword shall bereave, and indoors terror, for young man and woman alike, the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:26)  I would have said, "I will cut them to pieces; I will wipe them from human memory,"

 

(Deuteronomy 32:27)  had I not feared provocation by the enemy, lest their adversaries should misunderstand, lest they should say, "Our hand is triumphant, it was not the LORD who did all this."'

 

(Deuteronomy 32:28)  "For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:29)  If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern their latter end!

 

(Deuteronomy 32:30)  How could one have chased a thousand, and two have put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had given them up?

 

(Deuteronomy 32:31)  For their rock is not as our Rock; our enemies are by themselves.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:32)  For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; their clusters are bitter;

 

(Deuteronomy 32:33)  their wine is the poison of serpents and the cruel venom of asps.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:34)  "'Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries?

 

(Deuteronomy 32:35)  Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly.'

 

(Deuteronomy 32:36)  For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone and there is none remaining, bond or free.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:37)  Then he will say, 'Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,

 

(Deuteronomy 32:38)  who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you; let them be your protection!

 

(Deuteronomy 32:39)  "'See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:40)  For I lift up my hand to heaven and swear, As I live forever,

 

(Deuteronomy 32:41)  if I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will repay those who hate me.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:42)  I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh-- with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.'

 

(Deuteronomy 32:43)  "Rejoice with him, O heavens; bow down to him, all gods, for he avenges the blood of his children and takes vengeance on his adversaries. He repays those who hate him and cleanses his people's land."

 

(Deuteronomy 32:44)  Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:45)  And when Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel,

 

(Deuteronomy 32:46)  he said to them, "Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:47)  For it is no empty word for you, but your very life, and by this word you shall live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess."

 

(Deuteronomy 32:48)  That very day the LORD spoke to Moses,

 

(Deuteronomy 32:49)  "Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel for a possession.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:50)  And die on the mountain which you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people,

 

(Deuteronomy 32:51)  because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, and because you did not treat me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel.

 

(Deuteronomy 32:52)  For you shall see the land before you, but you shall not go there, into the land that I am giving to the people of Israel."

 

In Deuteronomy chapter 33 Moses then blesses each and every one of the tribes of Israel with different blessings

(Deuteronomy 33:1)  This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death.

 

(Deuteronomy 33:2)  He said, "The LORD came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon us; he shone forth from Mount Paran; he came from the ten thousands of holy ones, with flaming fire at his right hand.

 

(Deuteronomy 33:3)  Yes, he loved his people, all his holy ones were in his hand; so they followed in your steps, receiving direction from you,

 

(Deuteronomy 33:4)  when Moses commanded us a law, as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.

 

(Deuteronomy 33:5)  Thus the LORD became king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.

 

(Deuteronomy 33:6)  "Let Reuben live, and not die, but let his men be few."

 

(Deuteronomy 33:7)  And this he said of Judah: "Hear, O LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him in to his people. With your hands contend for him, and be a help against his adversaries."

 

(Deuteronomy 33:8)  And of Levi he said, "Give to Levi your Thummim, and your Urim to your godly one, whom you tested at Massah, with whom you quarreled at the waters of Meribah;

 

(Deuteronomy 33:9)  who said of his father and mother, 'I regard them not'; he disowned his brothers and ignored his children. For they observed your word and kept your covenant.

 

(Deuteronomy 33:10)  They shall teach Jacob your rules and Israel your law; they shall put incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.

 

(Deuteronomy 33:11)  Bless, O LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands; crush the loins of his adversaries, of those who hate him, that they rise not again."

 

(Deuteronomy 33:12)  Of Benjamin he said, "The beloved of the LORD dwells in safety. The High God surrounds him all day long, and dwells between his shoulders."

 

(Deuteronomy 33:13)  And of Joseph he said, "Blessed by the LORD be his land, with the choicest gifts of heaven above, and of the deep that crouches beneath,

 

(Deuteronomy 33:14)  with the choicest fruits of the sun and the rich yield of the months,

 

(Deuteronomy 33:15)  with the finest produce of the ancient mountains and the abundance of the everlasting hills,

 

(Deuteronomy 33:16)  with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness and the favor of him who dwells in the bush. May these rest on the head of Joseph, on the pate of him who is prince among his brothers.

 

(Deuteronomy 33:17)  A firstborn bull--he has majesty, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he shall gore the peoples, all of them, to the ends of the earth; they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh."

 

(Deuteronomy 33:18)  And of Zebulun he said, "Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, and Issachar, in your tents.

 

(Deuteronomy 33:19)  They shall call peoples to their mountain; there they offer right sacrifices; for they draw from the abundance of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand."

 

(Deuteronomy 33:20)  And of Gad he said, "Blessed be he who enlarges Gad! Gad crouches like a lion; he tears off arm and scalp.

 

(Deuteronomy 33:21)  He chose the best of the land for himself, for there a commander's portion was reserved; and he came with the heads of the people, with Israel he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments for Israel."

 

(Deuteronomy 33:22)  And of Dan he said, "Dan is a lion's cub that leaps from Bashan."

 

(Deuteronomy 33:23)  And of Naphtali he said, "O Naphtali, sated with favor, and full of the blessing of the LORD, possess the lake and the south."

 

(Deuteronomy 33:24)  And of Asher he said, "Most blessed of sons be Asher; let him be the favorite of his brothers, and let him dip his foot in oil.

 

(Deuteronomy 33:25)  Your bars shall be iron and bronze, and as your days, so shall your strength be.

 

(Deuteronomy 33:26)  "There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies in his majesty.

 

(Deuteronomy 33:27)  The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, Destroy.

 

(Deuteronomy 33:28)  So Israel lived in safety, Jacob lived alone, in a land of grain and wine, whose heavens drop down dew.

 

(Deuteronomy 33:29)  Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD, the shield of your help, and the sword of your triumph! Your enemies shall come fawning to you, and you shall tread upon their backs."

 

In Deuteronomy chapter 34 Moses does indeed go up in the mountain where he views the Promised Land and then dies, and the Lord buries him in a spot where his body is never found. Joshua rose to take Moses place and Israel mourned for Moses 30 days, and then the book closes to say there would not be another prophet like Moses again (in the Old Testament)

(Deuteronomy 34:1)  Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan,

 

(Deuteronomy 34:2)  all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea,

 

(Deuteronomy 34:3)  the Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.

 

(Deuteronomy 34:4)  And the LORD said to him, "This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, 'I will give it to your offspring.' I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there."

 

(Deuteronomy 34:5)  So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD,

 

(Deuteronomy 34:6)  and he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor; but no one knows the place of his burial to this day.

 

(Deuteronomy 34:7)  Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated.

 

(Deuteronomy 34:8)  And the people of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.

 

(Deuteronomy 34:9)  And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. So the people of Israel obeyed him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.

 

(Deuteronomy 34:10)  And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,

 

(Deuteronomy 34:11)  none like him for all the signs and the wonders that the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land,

 

(Deuteronomy 34:12)  and for all the mighty power and all the great deeds of terror that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

For the actual story of Israel coming into and the possession of the land that God promised them please go to this link:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jay-dougherty/entry-into-and-conquest-of-the-promised-land-bible-study/10200708799655952

 

God in these chapters reminds us in a very strong way that He is to be obeyed and that his commandments are not too hard at all. Jesus though would come and then give His life for all those who could not obey- really all of us, for we all on occasion heed our flesh. This sacrifice on the part of Jesus now lets us enjoy the benefits of the blessings without worrying too much about the curses, if we repent and turn back every time we might stumble. Jesus above all wants a relationship with each and every one of us, and so does the Father. I am now including a prayer which you can use to invite Jesus into your heart for the first time or even to return, repent and ask Him back if you have slipped away from Him over time. Please pray this prayer with me

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess Jesus as our Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we will be saved. Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.

Amen.

God bless you and yours