Deuteronomy 32:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

Jeshurun

Deuteronomy 33:5

Isaiah 44:2

Kicked

1 Samuel 2:29

Acts 9:5

Waxen fat

Then he

General references

Deuteronomy 28:47

Judges 10:13

2 Kings 21:22

Bible References

Jeshurun

And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together.

Thus says the LORD that made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

Kicked

Why trample you on my sacrifice and on my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chief of all the offerings of Israel my people?

And he said, Who are you, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom you persecute: it is hard for you to kick against the goads.

Waxen fat

For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore unto their fathers, that flows with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.

Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes heavy fat on his waist.

They are enclosed in their own fat hearts: with their mouth they speak proudly.

Their eyes stand out with abundance: they have more than heart could wish.

Their heart is as gross as grease; but I delight in your law.

Make the heart of this people dull, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and return, and be healed.

For the heart of this people is stubborn, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

Or despise you the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

Then he

And it shall be, when the LORD your God shall have brought you into the land which he swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and beautiful cities, which you built not,

When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which he has given you.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and go play the harlot after the gods of the strangers of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

And they took strong cities, and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all goods, cisterns hewed out, vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a descendant of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they have turned away backward.

Thus says the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

How shall I pardon you for this? your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.

General references

Because you served not the LORD your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;

Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods: therefore I will deliver you no more.

And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.