Deuteronomy 31:16

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Summary

And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

Thou shalt

And go a

Forsake me

Break my

Leviticus 26:15

Judges 2:20

Jeremiah 31:32

General references

Deuteronomy 31:18

Psalm 78:10

Jeremiah 9:13

Bible References

Thou shalt

And Abraham came to his death, an old man, full of years; and he was put to rest with his people.

And when the time comes for you to go to rest with your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, the offspring of your body, and I will make his kingdom strong.

They are at rest in their last resting-places, every one going straight before him.

Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction:

And go a

So early on the day after they got up and made burned offerings and peace-offerings; and took their seats at the feast, and then gave themselves to pleasure.

So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

And my face will be turned against that man, and he will be cut off from his people; because he has given his offspring to Molech, making my holy place unclean, and making my holy name common.

But still they would not give ear to their judges, but went after other gods and gave them worship; quickly turning from the way in which their fathers had gone, keeping the orders of the Lord; but they did not do so.

For those who are far away from you will come to destruction: you will put an end to all those who have not kept faith with you.

So they became unclean through their works, going after their evil desires.

But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.

They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come back to me? says the Lord.

But you put your faith in the fact that you were beautiful, acting like a loose woman because you were widely talked of, and offering your cheap love to everyone who went by, whoever it might be.

And Oholah was untrue to me when she was mine; she was full of desire for her lovers, even for the Assyrians, her neighbours,

Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;

With whom the kings of the earth made themselves unclean, and those who are on the earth were full of the wine of her evil desires.

For true and upright are his decisions; for by him has the evil woman been judged, who made the earth unclean with the sins of her body; and he has given her punishment for the blood of his servants.

Forsake me

But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are thick and full of food: then he was untrue to the God who made him, giving no honour to the Rock of his salvation.

And they gave up the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had taken them out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about them, worshipping them and moving the Lord to wrath.

And again the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, worshipping the Baals and Astartes, and the gods of Aram and the gods of Zidon and the gods of Moab and the gods of the children of Ammon and the gods of the Philistines; they gave up the Lord and were servants to him no longer.

Has any nation ever made a change in their gods, though they are no gods? but my people have given up their glory in exchange for what is of no profit.

Break my

And if you go against my rules and if you have hate in your souls for my decisions and you do not do all my orders, but go against my agreement;

And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he said, Because this nation has not been true to my agreement which I made with their fathers, and has not given ear to my voice;

Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; which agreement was broken by them, and I gave them up, says the Lord.

General references

Truly, my face will be turned away from them in that day, because of all the evil they have done in going after other gods.

They were not ruled by God's word, and they would not go in the way of his law;

And the Lord said, Because they have given up my law which I put before them, giving no attention to my voice and not being guided by it;