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Deuteronomy 31:20

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When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me and break My covenant.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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.

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This verse in Deuteronomy 31

Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

write ye this song for you

on Deuteronomy 31:19-21

The song is commissioned as evidence for a trial that has not opened, and verse 21 says why it will hold, that it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed. Verse 20 names plenty as the occasion of the turning, when they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat, which is the warning of 6:11-12 and 8:11-14 arriving now as a forecast. The song itself is chapter 32, and the New Testament quotes it more often than any other chapter of this book, at Romans 10:19, at Romans 12:19 with Hebrews 10:30, and at Romans 15:10.

The words behind it

22 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • כִּֽי־if

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • אֲבִיאֶ֜נּוּI will bring it

    ʾavienuH935 →2568 times

  • אֶֽל־into

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הָאֲדָמָ֣ה׀the land

    haadamahH127 →225 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • נִשְׁבַּ֣עְתִּיI swore

    nishba'tiH7650 →186 times

  • לַאֲבֹתָ֗יוto ancestors its

    laavotavH1 →1212 times

  • זָבַ֤תflowing of

    zavatH2100 →42 times

  • חָלָב֙milk

    chalavH2461 →44 times

  • וּדְבַ֔שׁand honey

    udevashH1706 →54 times

  • וְאָכַ֥לand it will eat

    veakhalH398 →810 times

  • וְשָׂבַ֖עand it will be satisfied

    vesava'H7646 →97 times

  • וְדָשֵׁ֑ןand it will grow fat

    vedashenH1878 →

  • וּפָנָ֞הand it will turn

    ufanahH6437 →135 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • אֱלֹהִ֤יםgods

    ʾelohimH430 →2601 times

  • אֲחֵרִים֙other

    ʾacherimH312 →166 times

  • וַעֲבָד֔וּםand they will serve them

    vaavadumH5647 →288 times

  • וְנִ֣אֲצ֔וּנִיand they will spurn me

    veniatzuniH5006 →

  • וְהֵפֵ֖רand it will break

    veheferH6565 →

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • בְּרִיתִֽי׃covenant my

    beritiH1285 →284 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Proverbs 30:9Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.15 worksDeuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.12 worksMalachi 3:7Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’10 worksHosea 13:6When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.7 worksNehemiah 9:25–26They captured fortified cities and fertile land and took houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled; they grew fat and delighted in Your great goodness.6 worksDeuteronomy 6:10–12And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,6 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Psalms 78:10They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.6 worksExodus 3:8I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.5 worksJeremiah 5:28They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.4 worksEzekiel 34:20Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says to them: ‘Behold, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.4 worksEzekiel 34:16I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’4 worksNumbers 13:27And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!4 worksDeuteronomy 8:12Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,4 worksJeremiah 50:11“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph—you who plunder My inheritance—because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions,3 worksNehemiah 9:35For even while they were in their kingdom, with the abundant goodness that You had given them, and in the spacious and fertile land that You had set before them, they would not serve You or turn from their wicked ways.3 worksDeuteronomy 7:1When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—3 worksPsalms 73:7From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.3 worksPsalms 119:70Their hearts are hard and callous, but I delight in Your law.3 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Exodus 3:8

    I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and…

    it leads to

    • Genesis 50:24

      Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac,…

    • Exodus 3:17

      And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’

    • Genesis 15:18–21

      On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—

    • Exodus 13:5

      And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and…

    • Deuteronomy 1:25

      They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”

  • Through

    Jeremiah 5:28

    They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 1:23

      Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.

    • Deuteronomy 32:15

      But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

  • Through

    Hosea 13:6

    When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 32:13–15

      He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag,

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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