Deuteronomy 29:1 - meaning, Hebrew and Greek word study, commentary
Deuteronomy 29:1
These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
a compact (because made by passing between pieces of fl… · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
LORD
יְהוָ֣הYah.weh
H3068
Jehovah · proper noun, a title
commanded
צִוָּ֧הtzi.Vah
H6680
(intensively) to constitute · verb, piel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Moses
מֹשֶׁ֗הmo.Sheh
H4872
Mosheh · proper noun, a man's name
make
לִכְרֹ֛תlikh.Rot
H3772
to cut (off · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
children
בְּנֵ֥יbe.Nei
H1121
a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine plural construct
Israel
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לYis.ra.'El
H3478
Jisrael · proper noun, a place name
land
בְּאֶ֣רֶץbe.'E.retz
H776
the earth (at large · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct
Moab
מוֹאָ֑בmo.'Av
H4124
Moab · proper noun, a place name
covenant
הַבְּרִ֔יתha.be.Rit
H1285
a compact (because made by passing between pieces of fl… · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
made
כָּרַ֥תka.Rat
H3772
to cut (off · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Horeb
בְּחֹרֵֽבbe.cho.Rev
H2722
Choreb · preposition + proper noun, a place name
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 5:2-3 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
Exodus 24:2-8 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
2 Kings 23:3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonie…
Jeremiah 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt;…
Hebrews 8:9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt;…
Exodus 19:3-5 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell th…
Leviticus 26:44-45 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utter…
Deuteronomy 4:10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will…
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 29:1-9
Now that Moses had largely repeated the commands which the people were to observe as their part of the covenant, and the promises and threatenings which God would make good (according as they behaved themselves) as part of the covenant, the whole is here summed up in a federal transaction. The covenant formerly made is here renewed, and Moses, who was before, is still, the mediator of it (Deu 29:1): The Lord commanded Moses to make it. Moses himself, though king in Jeshurun, could not make the covenant any otherwise than as God gave him instructions. It does not lie in the power of ministers to fix the terms of the covenant; they are only to dispense the seals of it. This is said to be besid…
These are the words of the covenant,.... Not what go before, but follow after, in the next chapters, to the end of the book; in which are various promises of grace, and promises of good things, both with respect to Jews and Gentiles, intermixed with other things:
which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab; or to declare unto them, and acquaint them with, they being now in the plains of Moab, ready to enter into the land of, Canaan:
besides the covenant which he made with them at Horeb: or Sinai; which Jarchi interprets, besides the curses in Leviticus, delivered on Sinai; he seems to have respect to Leviticus 26:14. This covenant was different fr…
Is not the close of the address in ch. 5-28, as Schultz, Knobel, and others suppose; but the heading to ch. 29-30, which relate to the making of the covenant mentioned in this verse (vid., Deu 29:12, Deu 29:14).
Tyndale Open Study Notes on Deuteronomy 29:1
The land of Moab was the region east of the Jordan where Deuteronomy was composed and delivered to Israel.
The Church Fathers
These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant that he made with them in Horeb. This text demonstrates why this book is called Deuteronomy, as if it were a second law. Actually, it is more a repetition of that law than something different. Well, there are few things that are not there, in which it occurred for the first time. And yet, this should not be called two alliances, although it seems that these words sound like this. Because both alliances are a unique alliance, which in the Church is called Antigua. Because if because of these words should speak of two alliances, there would be two, but many more, in addition to the New. For the Scripture speaks in many passages of covenant, like that which was made with Abraham about the circumcision (Cf Gn 17,4) or that older one with Noah. 50 (Dt 29.2-4). You have seen all the things that the Lord your God did in the land of Egypt before you with Pharaoh and all his servants and with all his land, great trials that your eyes saw, those great signs and wonders and the mighty hand, and the Lord God did not give you a heart to know, neither eyes to see, nor ears to hear to this day. How can you say above: You have seen the great trials your eyes saw, if the Lord did not give you eyes to see or ears to hear? Unless it is said that it is because they saw with the body and did not see with the heart, because it is also spoken of the eyes of the heart. This is why he began there: And the Lord God did not give you the heart to know. This is what the following two things refer to: Neither eyes to see nor ears to hear, that is, to understand and obey. Because what it says: And the Lord God did not give you, would not say in any way admonishing or blaming, unless he wanted to be understood that it also refers to their fault, so that no one thinks he is free of guilt in this issue. At the same time it shows that they, without the help of the Lord God, can not understand or obey with the eyes or with the ears of the heart; and, nevertheless, if God's help is lacking, the sin of man is not excusable, because the judgments of God, although secret, are just.
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
Dictionary and topics
Covenant — A contract or agreement between two parties. In the Old Testament the Hebrew word berith is always thus translated. Berith is derived from a root which means “to cut,” and hence a covenant is a…
Horeb · A range of mountains of which Mount Sinai is the most prominent — A range of mountains of which Mount Sinai is the most prominent
Moab · .The Israelites renew their covenant in — .The Israelites renew their covenant in
Sinai · .The law — .The law
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
