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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comTreasury Of Scripture Knowledge - Deuteronomy 31:16 - 31:16
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thou shalt: Gen 25:8; 2Sa 7:12; Isa 57:2; Act 13:36
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 this 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
and go a: Exo 32:6, Exo 34:15; Lev 20:3-6; Jdg 2:17-20; Psa 73:27, Psa 106:39; Isa 57:3-8; Jer 3:1-3; Eze 16:15, Eze 16:25-36, Eze 23:5-8, Eze 23:9-21; Hos 2:2-5; Rev 17:2-5, Rev 19:2
forsake me: Deu 32:15; Jdg 2:12, Jdg 10:6, Jdg 10:13; Jer 2:11-13
break my: Lev 26:15; Jdg 2:20; Jer 31:32