申命记 29:18

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

恐怕你們中間有男人或女人，家族或支派，今日心裡偏離了耶和華我們的　神，去事奉那些國的神，又恐怕你們中間有惡根，生出毒草和苦堇來；

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
惟 恐 你 们 中 间 ， 或 男 或 女 ， 或 族 长 或 支 派 长 ， 今 日 心 里 偏 离 耶 和 华 ─ 我 们 的 　 神 ， 去 事 奉 那 些 国 的 　 神 ； 又 怕 你 们 中 间 有 恶 根 生 出 苦 菜 和 茵 ? 来 ，

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ Today you are all standing here before the Lord your God—your leaders and important men, your elders, officers, and all the other men of Israel, ¹¹ your wives and children and the foreigners who live among you, who chop your wood and carry your water. ¹² You are all here to enter into an agreement and a promise with the Lord your God, an agreement the Lord your God is making with you today. ¹³ This will make you today his own people. He will be your God, as he told you and as he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ¹⁴ But I am not just making this agreement and its promises with you ¹⁵ who are standing here before the Lord your God today, but also with those who are not here today. ¹⁶ You know how we lived in Egypt and how we passed through the countries when we came here. ¹⁷ You saw their hateful idols made of wood, stone, silver, and gold. ¹⁸ Make sure no man, woman, family group, or tribe among you leaves the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. They would be to you like a plant that grows bitter, poisonous fruit. ¹⁹ These are the kind of people who hear these curses but bless themselves, thinking, "We will be safe even though we continue doing what we want to do." Those people may destroy all of your land, both wet and dry.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

among you man: Deuteronomy 11:16, Deuteronomy 11:17, Deuteronomy 13:1-15, Deuteronomy 17:2-7, Hebrews 3:12

among you a root: Jeremiah 9:15, Hosea 10:4, Amos 6:12, Acts 8:23, Hebrews 12:15

gall and wormwood: or, a poisonful herb, Heb. rosh

Reciprocal: Numbers 5:18 - the bitter water Deuteronomy 30:1 - the blessing Deuteronomy 30:17 - if thine Deuteronomy 31:29 - and evil Deuteronomy 32:32 - their grapes Joshua 24:15 - or the gods Judges 2:12 - forsook 2 Kings 22:16 - all the words 2 Chronicles 15:13 - whether small 2 Chronicles 34:21 - great 2 Chronicles 36:17 - who slew Psalms 69:24 - Pour Proverbs 14:34 - but Isaiah 34:5 - the people Jeremiah 26:4 - If Jeremiah 28:8 - prophesied Jeremiah 36:7 - for Lamentations 1:5 - for Lamentations 2:17 - done Ezekiel 33:26 - and shall Daniel 9:27 - that determined Amos 5:7 - turn Revelation 8:11 - Wormwood

Cross-References

Genesis 29:16
Now Laban had two daughters. The older was Leah, and the younger was Rachel.

Genesis 29:17
Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was very beautiful.

Genesis 29:20
So Jacob worked for Laban seven years so he could marry Rachel. But they seemed like just a few days to him because he loved Rachel very much.

Genesis 29:30
So Jacob had sexual relations with Rachel also, and Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah. Jacob worked for Laban for another seven years.

Genesis 31:41
I worked like a slave for you for twenty years—the first fourteen to get your two daughters and the last six to earn your flocks. During that time you changed my pay ten times.

Genesis 34:12
Ask as much as you want for the payment for the bride, and I will give it to you. Just let me marry Dinah."

2 Samuel 3:14
Then David sent messengers to Saul's son Ish-Bosheth, saying, "Give me my wife Michal. She was promised to me, and I killed a hundred Philistines to get her."

Hosea 3:2
So I bought her for six ounces of silver and ten bushels of barley.

Hosea 12:12
Your ancestor Jacob fled to Northwest Mesopotamia where he worked to get a wife; he tended sheep to pay for her.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Lest there should be among you man or woman, or family, or tribe,.... These words stand in connection with Deuteronomy 29:15, with

Deuteronomy 29:16 being in a parenthesis, as may be observed, and show the design of this solemn appearance of the people, and their entering afresh into covenant; which was to prevent their falling into idolatry, and preserve them from it, whether a single person of either sex, or a whole family, or even a tribe, which might be in danger of being infected with it, and so all the people:

whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go [and] serve the gods of those nations; whose heart is enticed and drawn aside at the remembrance of the idols he has seen worshipped by others; and is looking off from the Lord God, his faith in him being weakened, his fear of him removed, and his affections for him lessened; and is looking towards the idols of the nations, with a hankering mind to serve and worship them:

lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood: the word "rosh", which we render "gall", signifies, according to Jarchi, a bitter herb, which better suits with a root than gall, and is elsewhere by us rendered "hemlock", Hosea 10:4; and is by him very rightly interpreted of a wicked man among them; for not a principle of immorality, or heresy, rooted in the mind, productive of bitter fruits, or evil actions, is meant; but a bad man, particularly an idolater, who is rooted in idolatry, and is guilty of and commits abominable actions; the issue of which will be bitterness and death, if not recovered; which agrees with what the apostle says, Hebrews 12:15; who manifestly alludes to this passage; see the Apocrypha:

"In those days went there out of Israel wicked men, who persuaded many, saying, Let us go and make a covenant with the heathen that are round about us: for since we departed from them we have had much sorrow.'' (1 Maccabees 1:11)

and is confirmed by what follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The word here and in Deuteronomy 32:32 rendered “gall,” is in Hosea 10:4 translated “hemlock.” It is the name of a plant of intense bitterness, and of quick growth; and is therefore repeatedly used in conjunction with “wormwood” (compare Jeremiah 9:15; Lamentations 3:19; Amos 6:12), to express figuratively the nature and effects of sin (compare the marginal references.). The herb is probably the poppy. Hence, the “water” (i. e. juice) “of gall” Jeremiah 8:14; Jeremiah 23:15 would be opium. This would explain its employment in the stupefying drink given to criminals at the time of execution (compare Psalms 69:21; Matthew 27:34), and the use of the word as synonymous with poison (compare Deuteronomy 32:33; Job 20:16).

Wormwood - is the plant “absinthium.” It is used to denote metaphorically the distress and trouble which result from sin.

“The root that beareth gall and wormwood,” means in this place any person lurking among them who is tainted with apostasy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 29:18. A root that beareth gall and wormwood — That is, as the apostle expresses it, Hebrews 3:12, An evil heart of unbelief departing from the living God; for to this place he evidently refers. It may also signify false doctrines, or idolatrous persons among themselves.