Study Desk

If you obey the commands of the Lord your God, which I give you today, if you love him, obey him, and keep all his laws, then you will prosper and become a nation of many people. The Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are about to occupy.

Love the Lord your God, obey him and be faithful to him, and then you and your descendants will live long in the land that he promised to give your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

The Lord your God himself will go before you and destroy the nations living there, so that you can occupy their land; and Joshua will be your leader, as the Lord has said.

Be determined and confident. Do not be afraid of them. Your God, the Lord himself, will be with you. He will not fail you or abandon you."

Read it to the people of Israel when they come to worship the Lord your God at the one place of worship.

Call together all the men, women, and children, and the foreigners who live in your towns, so that everyone may hear it and learn to honor the Lord your God and to obey his teachings faithfully.

In this way your descendants who have never heard the Law of the Lord your God will hear it. And so they will learn to obey him as long as they live in the land that you are about to occupy across the Jordan."

When that happens, I will become angry with them; I will abandon them, and they will be destroyed. Many terrible disasters will come upon them, and then they will realize that these things are happening to them because I, their God, am no longer with them.

"Take this book of God's Law and place it beside the Covenant Box of the Lord your God, so that it will remain there as a witness against his people.

"The Lord is your mighty defender, perfect and just in all his ways; Your God is faithful and true; he does what is right and fair.

The Lord alone led his people without the help of a foreign god.

"The Lord 's people grew rich, but rebellious; they were fat and stuffed with food. They abandoned God their Creator and rejected their mighty savior.

They forgot their God, their mighty savior, the one who had given them life.

Why were a thousand defeated by one, and ten thousand by only two? The Lord , their God, had abandoned them; their mighty God had given them up.

Their enemies know that their own gods are weak, not mighty like Israel's God.

"‘I, and I alone, am God; no other god is real. I kill and I give life, I wound and I heal, and no one can oppose what I do.

As surely as I am the living God, I raise my hand and I vow

These are the blessings that Moses, the man of God, pronounced on the people of Israel before he died.

About the tribe of Gad he said: "Praise God, who made their territory large. Gad waits like a lion To tear off an arm or a scalp.

People of Israel, no god is like your God, riding in splendor across the sky, riding through the clouds to come to your aid.