Deuteronomy 31:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And break my covenant. — With this, contrast Judges 2:1 : “I said, I will never break my covenant with you.” The phrases are identical in Hebrew. Comp. 2 Timothy 2:13 : “If we believe not, yet He abideth faithful: He cannot deny Himself.”

Deuteronomy 31:16

16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleepa with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.