Deuteronomy 29:19

17 and you saw their¹ abominations and their idols which were among them—wood and stone and silver and gold);

18 so that there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, ^awhose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, ^band that there may not be among you a root bearing ^cbitterness or wormwood;

19 and so it may not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall have peace, even though I¹ follow the ^adictates of my heart’—^bas though the drunkard could be included with the sober.

20 ^a“The Lord would not spare him; for then ^bthe anger of the Lord and ^cHis jealousy would burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book would settle on him, and the Lord ^dwould blot out his name from under heaven.

21 And the Lord ^awould separate him from all the tribes of Israel for adversity, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this Book of the ^bLaw,

22 so that the coming generation of your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, would say, when they ^asee the plagues of that land and the sicknesses which the Lord has laid on it:

Commentaries:

No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Deuteronomy 29:19.

Deuteronomy 29:19-20

God is saying through Moses, "Do not kid yourself." I bring this up because we have come out of a very Protestant society. That society has taught us that God is virtually obligated to give us salvation because His grace is so great. "His mercy is so great, that as long as we have accepted the blood of Jesus Christ, salvation is absolutely assured." That is not true—which I will show you in just a little bit out of the New Testament. Somehow, they have worked it around in order, I think, to tickle people's ears, that God is virtually required to give us salvation. But they forget that God's mercy is perfectly balanced by His justice and those two are perfectly balanced by His love.

Excerpted from Why Three Kings Are Missing From Matthew 1

Deuteronomy 29:18-20

Within the covenant there was this curse—or a series of curses—that would come upon a person who had taken the oath, who had vowed to keep the covenant, if he went against the covenant. So there were penalties within the covenant that he had to be aware of, and that would help him as the stick to keep him from wandering away.

Excerpted from Psalm Genres (Part Two): Imprecatory Psalms

Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Deuteronomy 29:19:

2 Chronicles 24:2

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