Study Desk

"And He will hand over their kings to you, so that you will eliminate their name from under heaven; no one will be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.

"All the commandments that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, so that you may live and increase, and go in and take possession of the land which the LORD swore to give to your forefathers.

"So you are to know in your heart that the LORD your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.

"Like the nations that the LORD eliminates from you, so you shall perish, because you would not listen to the voice of the LORD your God.

"So be aware today that it is the LORD your God who is crossing over ahead of you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and He will subdue them before you, so that you may drive them out and eliminate them quickly, just as the LORD has spoken to you.

"Even at Horeb you provoked the LORD to anger, and the LORD was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you.

"So I turned and came down from the mountain while the mountain was burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

"So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my two hands, and smashed them to pieces before your eyes!

"For I was afraid of the anger and the rage with which the LORD was angry with you so as to destroy you; but the LORD listened to me that time as well.

"The LORD was also angry enough with Aaron to destroy him; so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time.

"So I fell down before the LORD for the forty days and nights, which I did because the LORD said He would destroy you.

"So I made an ark of acacia wood and cut out two tablets of stone like the first two, and I went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.

"Then the LORD said to me, 'Arise, proceed on your journey ahead of the people, so that they may go in and take possession of the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.'

"So circumcise your heart, and do not stiffen your neck any longer.

"So show your love for the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

"You shall therefore keep every commandment which I am commanding you today, so that you may be strong and go in and take possession of the land into which you are about to cross to possess it;

and so that you may prolong your days on the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

that He will provide rain for your land in its season, the early and late rain, so that you may gather your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

"Otherwise, the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the sky so that there will be no rain, and the ground will not yield its produce; then you will quickly perish from the good land which the LORD is giving you.

so that your days and the days of your sons may be increased on the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.