Deuteronomy 31:16
And the Lord said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep 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.
Note sleep: Heb. lie down
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.
And Jehovah said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the harlot after the strange gods of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- thou shalt
- Genesis 25:8; 2 Samuel 7:12; Isaiah 57:2; Acts 13:36
- sleep
- Heb. lie down.{Shochaiv,} "lying down:" it signifies to rest, take rest in sleep, and metaphorically, to die. Though much stress cannot be safely laid upon this expression to prove the immortality of the soul, or that the people, in the time of Moses, had a distinct notion of its separate existence; yet is was understood in this sense by Jonathan, who paraphrases the words thus: "Thou shalt lie down in the dust with thy fathers; and thy soul {nishmatoch) shall be laid up in the treasury of the life to come, with thy fathers."
- Job 20:11
- and go a
- Exodus 32:6; Exodus 34:15; Leviticus 20:3–6; Judges 2:17–20; Psalm 73:27; Psalm 106:39; Isaiah 57:3–8; Jeremiah 3:1–3; Ezekiel 16:15, 25–36; Ezekiel 23:5–8, 9–21; Hosea 2:2–5; Revelation 17:2–5; Revelation 19:2
- forsake me
- Deuteronomy 32:15; Judges 2:12; Judges 10:6, 13; Jeremiah 2:11–13
- break my
- Leviticus 26:15; Judges 2:20; Jeremiah 31:32