5 Mosebok 4:26

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då tager jag i dag himmel och jord till vittnen mot eder, att I med hast skolen förgås och utrotas ur det land dit I nu gån över Jordan, för att taga det i besittning; I skolen då icke längre leva där, utan skolen förvisso förgöras.

Bible Verse Review
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I call heaven: A most solemn method of adjuration, in use among all the nations in the world; God and man being called upon to bear testimony to the truth of what was spoken, that if there was any flaw or insincerity it might be detected, and if any crime, it might not go unpunished. Such appeals to God shew at once the origin and use of oaths. Deuteronomy 30:18, Deuteronomy 30:19, Deuteronomy 31:28, Deuteronomy 32:1, Isaiah 1:2, Jeremiah 2:12, Jeremiah 6:19, Jeremiah 22:29, Ezekiel 36:4, Micah 1:2, Micah 6:2

ye shall: Deuteronomy 29:28, Leviticus 18:28, Leviticus 26:31-35, Joshua 23:16, Isaiah 6:11, Isaiah 24:1-3, Jeremiah 44:22, Ezekiel 33:28, Luke 21:24

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:12 - that thy Deuteronomy 8:19 - I testify against Deuteronomy 11:17 - ye perish Deuteronomy 28:20 - until thou be Joshua 23:13 - until ye perish Joshua 24:27 - General 1 Kings 8:46 - unto the land 1 Kings 9:7 - will I cut 1 Kings 14:15 - this good land 2 Kings 15:29 - carried them 2 Kings 17:13 - all 2 Kings 21:14 - deliver 2 Kings 24:3 - remove them 2 Kings 25:21 - So Judah 1 Chronicles 28:8 - in the audience 2 Chronicles 6:36 - thou be angry Nehemiah 9:29 - testifiedst Psalms 106:27 - to scatter Isaiah 34:1 - let the Jeremiah 16:13 - will I Jeremiah 17:4 - shalt Jeremiah 28:8 - prophesied Jeremiah 32:24 - what Jeremiah 52:27 - Thus Ezekiel 33:26 - and shall Daniel 9:27 - that determined Hosea 9:3 - shall not Micah 2:10 - and Micah 6:1 - contend Mark 12:9 - he will

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day,.... Should they be guilty of such a sin, since they were so strongly and publicly cautioned against it; and even the heaven and the earth were called upon as witnesses of the law being set before them, which so expressly forbids it, Deuteronomy 30:19

that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over Jordan to possess it; though they were now about to go over Jordan and inherit the land of Canaan, yet they would not enjoy it long, but be taken and carried captive out of it; as the ten tribes were by Shalmaneser king of Assyria, and the two tribes by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and both for their idolatry and other crimes.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare with these verses Leviticus 26:33-40, and Deuteronomy 28:64 ff.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 4:26. I call heaven and earth to witness against you — A most solemn method of adjuration, in use among all nations in the world. So Virgil, AEn., lib. xii., ver. 176, c.

Tum pius AEneas stricto sic ense precatur:

Esto nunc Sol testis et haec mihi terra vocanti -

Fontesque fluviosque voco, quaeque aetheris alti

Relllgio, et quae caeruleo sunt numina ponto, &c.

"Then the great Trojan prince unsheathed his sword,

And thus, with lifted hands, the gods adored:

Thou land for which I wage this war, and thou

Great source of day, be witness to my vow! -

Almighty king of heaven and queen of air,

Propitious now and reconciled by prayer, -

Ye springs, ye floods, ye various powers who lie

Beneath the deep, or tread the golden sky, -

HEAR and ATTEST!" PITT.

God and man being called upon to bear testimony to the truth of what was spoken, that if there was any flaw or insincerity, it might be detected and if any crime, it might not go unpunished. Such appeals to God, for such purposes, show at once both the origin and use of oaths. Deuteronomy 6:13.