Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. He said to them, “I am one hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. The LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’ Deu 34:7Num 27:171Ki 3:7Deu 3:26-27Exo 7:7Num 20:122Pe 1:13-142Sa 21:17 The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will go over before you, as the LORD has spoken. Deu 9:3Deu 31:23Deu 3:28Jos 4:14Deu 31:14Deu 31:7-8Deu 34:9Gen 48:21 The LORD will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them. Deu 2:33Deu 3:21Deu 3:3-11Deu 7:16Exo 23:28-31Num 21:24-35Deu 7:2 The LORD will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you. Deu 7:2Deu 20:16-17Exo 23:32-33Deu 7:18Deu 7:23-25Exo 34:12-16Num 33:52-56 Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them, for the LORD your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.” Jos 1:9Eph 6:10Psa 27:141Ch 28:20Isa 41:10Luk 12:322Ti 2:1Psa 27:1
Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it. Deu 3:28Deu 1:38Deu 31:6Eph 6:10Jos 1:6Deu 31:23Dan 10:19Deu 31:3 The LORD himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged.” Exo 33:14Deu 31:6Jos 1:9Rom 8:31Jos 1:5Isa 43:1-2Exo 13:21-221Ch 28:20
Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the LORD’s covenant, and to all the elders of Israel. Num 4:15Jos 3:31Ch 15:12-151Ch 15:21Ki 8:3Dan 9:13Deu 17:18Deu 31:22-26 Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of booths, Deu 15:1-2Lev 23:34-43 when all Israel has come to appear before the LORD your God in the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 2Ki 23:2Jos 8:34-35Deu 16:16-17Deu 12:5Exo 23:16-17Exo 34:24Neh 8:1-8Act 13:15 Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and the foreigners who are within your gates, that they may hear, learn, fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law, Deu 4:10Deu 6:6-7Psa 19:7-11Psa 34:11-142Ti 3:15-17Ezr 10:1Deu 29:29Jhn 5:39 and that their children, who have not known, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it.” Deu 11:2Deu 6:7Eph 6:4Pro 22:6Psa 78:4-8
The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.” Num 27:13Deu 31:231Sa 10:192Ti 4:1-4Ecc 9:5Job 2:1Jud 1:242Ki 1:4
Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.
The LORD appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood over the Tent’s door. Exo 33:9-10Exo 40:38Psa 99:7 The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them. Jdg 10:6Jdg 10:13Jdg 2:12Exo 34:15Ezk 16:15Rev 19:2Deu 32:15Hos 2:2-5 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’ 2Ch 15:2Isa 8:17Jdg 6:13Num 14:42Psa 104:29Isa 64:71Ch 28:9Deu 29:24-27 I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods. Deu 31:16-17
“Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. Deu 31:21-22Deu 6:7Deu 31:262Sa 14:3Deu 11:19Deu 31:30Deu 4:9-10Jhn 12:48 For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant. Hos 13:6Deu 6:10-12Neh 9:25-26Exo 3:8Ezk 34:16Ezk 34:20Jer 5:28Deu 31:16-17 It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I promised them.” Hos 5:3Gen 6:5Jhn 2:24-25Psa 139:2Act 2:23Act 4:28Amo 5:25-26Ezk 38:10-11
So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel. Deu 31:19Deu 31:9
He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, “Be strong and courageous; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them. I will be with you.” Deu 31:14Deu 31:7-8Act 7:45Deu 3:28Deu 31:3Jos 1:5-9
When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, Deu 31:9Deu 17:18 Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the LORD’s covenant, saying, Deu 31:9 “Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the LORD your God’s covenant, that it may be there for a witness against you. Deu 31:191Ki 8:92Ch 34:14-152Ki 22:13-192Ki 22:8-11Gal 2:19Rom 3:19-20 For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against the LORD. How much more after my death? Deu 32:20Deu 9:242Ch 30:8Act 7:51Deu 9:6-7Exo 32:8-9Isa 48:4Psa 78:8 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them. Deu 32:1Deu 4:26Deu 30:19Luk 19:40Deu 29:10Deu 31:12Gen 49:1-2Isa 1:2 For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn away from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days, because you will do that which is evil in the LORD’s sight, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.” Deu 32:5Jdg 2:19Deu 4:30Hos 9:9Gen 49:1Isa 1:4Luk 19:42-44Luk 21:24
Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished. Deu 4:5Heb 3:2Jhn 12:49Act 20:27Heb 3:5