19I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
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See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. …
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-20)Moses here concludes with a very bright light, and a very strong fire, that, if possible, what he had been preaching of might find entrance into the understanding and affections of this unthinking people. What could be said more moving, and more likely to make deep and lasting impressions? The manner of his treating with them is so rational, so prudent, so affectionate, and every way so apt to gai…
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