12Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
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.
Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. …
For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-20)Moses, having mentioned the great plenty they would find in the land of Canaan, finds it necessary to caution them against the abuse of that plenty, which was a sin they would be the more prone to new that they came into the vineyard of the Lord, immediately out of a barren desert. I. He directs them to the duty of a prosperous condition, Deut. 8:10. They are allowed to eat even to fulness, not to…
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