Deuteronomy 29:29 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. ”

• Deuteronomy 29:29 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The secret things belong unto the Lord our God - This verse seems to be added as a solemn admonition on the part of Moses, in order to close the series of blessings and curses which he has delive...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  The (m) secret [things belong] unto the LORD our God: but those [things which are] revealed [belong] unto us and to our children for ever, that [we] may do all the words of this law. (m) Moses by th...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Deuteronomy 29:1 belongs, as in the Heb. Bible, to the preceding chapter. It is the formal ending of the great discourse ( Deuteronomy 4:44 , Deuteronomy 12-26, Deuteronomy 28). Deuteronomy 29 (e...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  secret. The italics in Authorized Version (put in roman type in Revised Version) show that the Hebrew was not clear to the translators. They make good sense in English, but this is not the sense of...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  29. The secret things belong. The conciseness and brevity of this passage has rendered its meaning ambiguous; still there is no necessity for discussing the various expositions of it. I will...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 223 SECRET THINGS BELONG TO GOD Deuteronomy 29:29 . The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, th...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. The secret things be...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 29. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God, &c.— Houbigant renders this verse, the things which were hidden with the Lord our God, are revealed to us and our children for many...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. The secret things be...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Exhortations and Warnings In this chapter the covenant is renewed and enforced with a reminder of God's goodness and the consequences of disobedience.

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The secret things belong unto the Lord our God. — The immediate connection of these words with the context is not clear. Rashi connects the “secret things” with the “imagination of the evil heart o...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1-40 , Deuteronomy 27:1-26 ; Deuteronomy 28:1-68 ; Deuteronomy 29:1-29 ; Deuteronomy 30:1-20 . WITH the twenty-sixth chapter the entirely homogeneous c...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Penalty of Serving False Gods Deuteronomy 29:14-29 Deuteronomy 29:15 clearly refers to the future generations, who were included in this solemn act. The word “gall,” Deuteronomy 29:18 ,...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The fourth discourse of Moses urged the people to be true to the Covenant, the terms of which had been given and are recorded in the previous chapter. It is to be carefully remembered that the first...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  This seems to be the opening of a new subject in these words, unless we explain them as in answer to the further enquiry of the inquisitive mind, who from beholding the desolations of Israel stands a...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The secret [things belong] unto the Lord our God ,.... Respecting the people of Israel, and the providential dealings of God with them, and especially the final rejection of them; with respect to wh...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The secret [things belong] unto the LORD our God: but those [things which are] revealed [belong] unto us and to our children for ever, that [we] may do all the words of this law. Ver. 29. The secr...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Secret things belong unto the Lord our God That is, the counsels and purposes of God concerning persons or nations, and the reasons of his dispensations toward them, together with the time and mann...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE CONDITIONAL COVENANT RENEWED (vs.1-29) Verse I speaks of a covenant the Lord commanded Moses to make with Israel in the land of Moab, "Beside the covenant which He made with them in Horeb." T...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Covenant Renewed. B. C. 1451.       10 Ye stand this day all of you before the L ORD yo...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Having now mentioned the dreadful and amazing judgments of God upon the whole land and people of Israel, and foreseeing by the Spirit of prophecy the utter extirpation and destruction which would com...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES .—The discourse is continued—the subject of that is the covenant of Israel with God—its privileges conferred and obligations imposed. Besides ( Deuteronomy 29:1 ), not a new covenan...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Deuteronomy 29:29 I. There are certain domains of thought and government accessible to none but God. II. Impenetrable secrecy is compatible with paternal benevolence. III. Divine secrecy is no p...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Deuteronomy 29:1 . The words of the covenant; from co, con, or com; a social prefix; and venio, to come; the coming of two parties into one compact. The vendor gets the best terms he can, an...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The secret things belong unto the Lord. Things secret and things revealed Man has always had a quarrel with God over secret things. In the Garden of Eden there was one prohibition--“Thou shalt...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT IN THE PLAINS OF MOAB . (Deuteronomy 29-30.) The first verse of this chapter is placed in the Hebrew text at the end of Deuteronomy 28:1-5 ;...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  A Solemn Call to Obedience

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 2:16 ; 2 Timothy 1:5 ; 2 Timothy 3:16 ; Acts 1:7 ; Amos 3:7 ; Daniel 2:18 ; Daniel 2:19 ; Daniel 2:22 ; Daniel 2:27-30 ; Daniel 4:9 ; Deuteronomy 30:2 ; Deuteronomy 6:7 ; I...

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• Deuteronomy 29:29 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The secret things — Having mentioned the amazing judgments of God upon the whole land and people of Israel, and foreseeing the utter extirpation which would come upon them for their wickedness, he...

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