Deuteronomy 29:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

This curse

Deuteronomy 29:12

Genesis 2:17

That he bless

Though i walk

Ephesians 4:17

General references

Genesis 4:11

Job 34:7

Jeremiah 11:3

Bible References

This curse

that you may enter into the covenant with Jehovah your God, and into His oath that Jehovah your God is making with you today.

But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. When you eat of it you will surely die.

That he bless

In one of the cities Jehovah your God is giving you, there may be a man or woman among you who is doing what Jehovah considers evil. This person may be disregarding the conditions of Jehovah's covenant.

Any who sin deliberately, natives or foreigners, are guilty of treating Jehovah with contempt. They shall be put to death.

In his arrogant attitude he does not search for God. His faulty reasoning concludes: There is no God.

Even though he blesses himself while he is alive. (People will praise you when you do well for yourself.)

They kill widows and foreigners, and they murder orphans.

He who is often reprimanded and hardens his neck will suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

They lied about Jehovah. They said: It is not he, bad things will not happen to us. We will not see sword or famine.

Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Amend (make right) your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place.

Then Jeremiah the prophet told the prophet Hananiah: Listen, Hananiah! Jehovah did not send you. You are making these people believe a lie.

We refuse to listen to what you have told us in the name of Jehovah.

The prophets of Israel who prophesied to Jerusalem are gone. Those who said that everything was all right, when it was not all right, are gone, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Let no one deceive you with empty words. It is because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Though i walk

Any who sin deliberately, natives or foreigners, are guilty of treating Jehovah with contempt. They shall be put to death.

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth. Let your heart cheer you in your early days. Walk in the ways of your heart, and in the desires of your eyes. Yet you know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things.

for when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God. They did not thank him and were vain in their reasoning, for their foolish hearts were darkened.

We cast down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God. We bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.

This I say therefore, and testify (affirm) in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the nations also walk, in the vanity (futility) (depravity) of their mind (thinking).

General references

Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

Who is there like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water?

Jehovah the God of Israel says, 'Cursed is everyone who does not obey the terms of this covenant.'