Deuteronomy 31:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

shalt sleep with thy fathers. shalt lie down to sleep.. beautiful Euphemism (App-6) for death. This is the first occurrence. It is used alike of good people and evil: of Ahab as well as David; of all the kings, even Jehoiakim, who had no burial. See 2 Samuel 7:12. 1Ki 1:21. 1 Kings 2:10; 1 Kings 11:21 1 Kings 11:43. 1 Kings 14:20; 1 Kings 14:31. 1Ki 15:8, 1 Kings 15:24; 1 Kings 16:6 1 Kings 16:28. 1 Kings 22:40; 1 Kings 22:50. 2Ki 8:24. 2 Kings 10:35; 2 Kings 13:9 2 Kings 13:13. 2 Kings 14:16; 2 Kings 14:22 2 Kings 14:29. 2 Kings 15:7; 2 Kings 15:22 2 Kings 15:38. 2 Kings 16:20; 2 Kings 20:21. 2Ki 21:18. 2 Kings 24:6; 2 Chronicles 9:31. 2Ch 12:16. 2 Chronicles 14:1; 2 Chronicles 16:13. 2Ch 21:1. 2 Chronicles 26:2; 2 Chronicles 26:23. 2Ch 27:9. 2 Chronicles 28:27; 2 Chronicles 32:33; 2 Chronicles 33:20.

go. whoring. The constant idiom for idolatry.

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.