Moses' song

t Ps.78.4-8.

u ch.34.5. v ver.23. Nu.27.19.

13 And that their children, t which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to w Ex.33.9.

possess it.

14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: u call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. v And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.

15 And w the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud : and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.

16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt 1 sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise x up and go a whoringy after the gods of the strangers of the

1 lie down, 2Sam.7.12.

Ex.32.6. y Ex.34.15. Ju.2.17,20. Ps.73.27. Jer.3.1. Eze, 16.15.

z 2Chr. 15.2. a Is.64.7.

Eze.39.23,

2 find.

24.

land, whither they go to be among d ver. 17. them, and will forsake me, and 3 before. break my covenant which I have e Ps. 139.2. Hos.5.3.

made with them.

troubles shall 2 befall them, so that Ex.32.9. they will say in that day, Are noth Ge.49.1,2. these evils come upon us, because i ch.32.1. our God is not b among us?

18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.

19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the chil-b dren of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

20 For when I shall have brought d Ps. 18.2. them into the land which I sware' unto their fathers, that floweth e Ec.3.14. with milk and honey; and they f Dan.4.37. shall have eaten and c filled themg Ps.92.15. selves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.

21 And it shall come to pass, when d many evils and troubles are be-1 fallen them, that this song shall testify 3 against them as a witness: for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for le

know their imagination which they h Is.63.16. 4 go about, even now, before I have i Ex. 15. 16. brought them into the land which 1Cor.6.20. I sware.

against the people. 22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.

23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.

24 T And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,

25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,

26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there ƒ for a witness against thee.

27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious g against the LORD; and how much more after my death?

28 Gather h unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and i call heaven and earth to record against them.

29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt k yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil! will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. 30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended. CHAPTER XXXII.

1 Moses' song, which setteth forth God's mercy and vengeance; 46 his exhortation.

IVE a ear, O ye heavens, and I Uwill speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

2 My doctrine shall drop b as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass :

3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe c ye greatness unto our God.

4 He is the d Rock, his work is e perfect: for all his ways f are judgment: a God ofg truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

5 They have corrupted themselves, 2their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not The thy fatherh that hath bought i

8 When the Most High divided k tom Ex. 19.5. the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

9 For m the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the 4 lot of his n inheritance.

n Ps.78.71. Ep.1.18.

5 or, compassed.

o Zec.2.8.

10 He found him in a desert land, P Is.63.9. and in the waste howling wilder- q 1s.58.14. ness; he led him about, o he in-r Ps.81.16. structed him, he kept him as the s Is.44.2. apple of his eye.

ii As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them,p beareth them on her wings:

12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with

him.

13 He q made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey r out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

t 1Sam.2.29. Acts 9.5. u Ne.9.25,26.

6

v 1Cor.10.22.

w ICo.10.20. or, which

were not God, v.21. Is. 17.10. or, despised

y Ro. 10.19. 14 Butter of kine, and milk of z Lam.4.11. sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams 3 or, hath of the breed of Bashan, and goats, burned. with the fat of kidneys of wheat; 9 or, hath and thou didst drink the pure blood consumed. of the grape.

a Zep.3.8. b Eze.5.16. 10 coals,

15 But Jeshurun s waxed fat, and t kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he u for-c sook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

Hab.3.5. Eze.14.21. from the chambers.

12 bereave.

high hand,

and not

the LORD,

hath done. e Ps.81.13.

16 They provoked him to jea-d ch.23.61. lousy with strange gods, with abomi-13 or, cur nations provoked they him to anger. 17 They sacrificed unto 6 devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers fear-f Is.50.1. ed not. g1Sam.2.2. 18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou h 1Sam.4.8. art unmindful, and hast forgotten z 14 or, worse God that formed thee. than.

m Ro.3.13.

19 And when the LORD saw it,i Jer.2.21. he 7 abhorred them, because of the Is. 1.10. 1 Ps.58.4. provoking of his sons and of his daughters. 20 And he said, I will hide my face n Jer.2.22. from them, I will see what their end shall be for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they

Rom.2.5.

o Heb. 10.30. p Jer. 13. 16. q 2 Pet.2.3. r Ju. 10. 15,16, 15 hand.

and vengeance.

have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will y move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. 22 For a fire z is kindled in mine anger, and 8 shall burn unto the lowest hell, and 9 shall consume the earth a with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

231 will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows b upon

them.

24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning 10 heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth c of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

25 The sword without, and terror 11 within, shall 12 destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

26 I said, I would scatter d them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;

27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, 13 Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

29 Oe that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! 30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold f them, and the LORD had shut them up?

31 For g their rock is not as our Rock, even h our enemies themselves being judges:

32 For their vine is 14 of the vine i of Sodom, k and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: 33 Their wine is the poison dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.m

of

31 Is not this laid up n in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

35 To me o belongeth vengeance, and recompense; their foot p shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, q and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent r himself for his servants, when he seeth that their 15 power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.

p Ge.27.28.

4 or, thrust.

5

15 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the pre-r cious things of the lasting hills, 16 And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.

moons.

9 Ex.3.2,4. 1Chr.5.1. $ Ps.92.10.

6an unicorn.

t Ps.44.5.

u Is.2.3.

v Ps.4.5. w Is.60.5,16. 1Chr. 12.8. y Nu.32.1,&c. cieled. Jos.4. 12, 13

z

17 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the s horns of 6 unicorns: with them he shall push t the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Ma-b Ps.36.8. nasseh.

a Jos. 19.47.

90.14. Jer.31.14.

18 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; c Jos. 19.32, and, Issachar, in thy tents.

&c.

19 They u shall call the people d Job 29.6. unto the mountain; there they shall offer v sacrifices of righteousness: for w they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.

20 And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he' dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head. 21 And he provided the first y part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he

seated and he came with the heads of the people, he executed z the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.

8 or, under thy, ch.8.9. e Is.41.10. 1Cor. 10.13. f Jer. 10.6.

Ps.68.4,33. h Ps.90.1.

Is. 25.4.

i Jer.23.6.

k Nu.23.9.

1 Ps. 144. 15. m Ps. 115.9

11.

22 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he a shall leap from n Rev.1.16. Bashan.

23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied b with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD, possess c thou the west and the south.

21 T And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.d 25 Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and e as thy days, so shall thy strength be.

11.

2 moisture fled.

e Nu.20.29.

26 There is none like ƒ unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth g upon f Dan.6.3. the heaven in thy help, and in his g Nu.27.18, excellency on the sky.

23.

18. Heb.3.5,6.

27 The eternal God is thy refuge, hh ch.18. 15, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall i ch.4.34. say, Destroy them.

28 Israel then shall dwell in i

k ch.7.19.

Moses' death.

safety alone; k the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine, also his heavens shall drop down dew.

29 Happyl art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield m of thy help, and who is the sword n of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be 9 found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places. CHAPTER XXXIV.

1 Moses from mount Nebo vieweth the land: 5 He dieth there: 6 His burial: 7 His age.

AND Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of 1 Pisgah, that is over against Jericho and the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,

2 And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, 3 And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm-trees, unto Zoar.

4 And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware a unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but b thou shalt not go over thither.

5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.

6 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but c no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.

7

And Moses was an hundred

and twenty years old when he died: his d eye was not dim, nor his 2 natural force abated.

8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty e days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.

9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit f of wisdom; for Moses g had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.

10 T And there arose not a prophet since in Israel h like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, 11 In all the signs i and the wonders which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;

12 And in all that mighty k hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.

OW after the death a of Moses,

Ne fervant of the LORD, it

came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, b saying,

B. C. 1451.

a Deut.34.5.

b Ex.24.13. c Deut.11.24. d Ge. 15.18. Nu.34.2-12.

e Deut.7.24.

6.27.

2 Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, f ch.3.7. thou and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.

3 Every c place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you as I said unto Moses.

4 From d the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.

g De.31.6,8. Heb. 13.5.

1

or, thou shalt cause this people to inherit. h De.31.7,23. Ep.6.10. 2Ti.2.1.

2 or, do wisely, Deut.29.9. 3 or, do wise'y, ver.7.

5 There e shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as f I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: Igi 1Ch.28.20 will not fail thee, nor forsake Hag.2.4. thee. Zec.8.9. k Ge.28.15.

6 Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land which I sware unto their fathers to give them.

Ps. 27.1. Jer. 1.8.

Ps.46.7. Is.43.1,5.

7 Only be h thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the lawm ch.3.2. which Moses my servant command-n ch.22.1-4 ed thee turn not from it to the Nu.32.20right hand or to the left, that thou mayest 2 prosper whithersoever 4 marshalled thou goest.

8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt 3 have good success.

o

by five,

28.

Ex. 13. 18.

Deut.5.27.

p ver.5.

1Sa.20.13. IKI.1.37. q Ro.13.1-5. r ver.6,7,9. 1Cor. 16. 13.

9 Have not I commanded thee? i Be strong and of a good courage; be k not afraid, neither be thou dis-1 or, had (CHAP. 2.) mayed for the LORD thy God is with theewhithersoever thou goest.

sent.

10 T Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying, 11 Pass through the host and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; form within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it.

12 T And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua,

saying,

13 Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, n The LORD your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land.

14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but ye shall pass before your brethren 4 armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help them;

15 Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them: then ye shall retum unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD's servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sun-ris

ing.

16 And they answered Joshua, saying, All o that thou commandest us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us we will go. 17 According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee only the LORD thy God be with thee, as p he was with Moses.

18 Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he q shall be put to death: only r be strong and of a good courage. CHAPTER II. Rahab concealeth the two spies sent from Shittim.

AND Joshua the son of Nun

1 sent out of Shittim two men