Adam Clarke Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:1

Adam Clarke Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:1 - 29:1

Online Resource Library

Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com

Adam Clarke Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:1 - 29:1

(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)

This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

29:1 - 29:1
29:4 - 29:4
29:5 - 29:5
29:6 - 29:6
29:10 - 29:10
29:12 - 29:12
29:15 - 29:15
29:18 - 29:18
29:19 - 29:19
29:26 - 29:26
29:29 - 29:29

These are the words of the covenant - This verse seems properly to belong to the preceding chapter, as a widely different subject is taken up at Deu 29:2 of this; and it is distinguished as the 69th verse in some of the most correct copies of the Hebrew Bible.

Commanded Moses to make - לכרת lichroth, to cut, alluding to the covenant sacrifice which was offered on the occasion and divided, as is explained, Gen 15:18 (note).

Beside the covenant which he made - in Horeb - What is mentioned here is an additional institution to the ten words given on Horeb; and the curses denounced here are different from those denounced against the transgressors of the decalogue.