Deuteronomy 8:20
As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.
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Moses, having mentioned the great plenty they would find in the land of Canaan, finds it necessary to caution them against the abuse of that plenty, which was a sin they would be the more prone to new…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
maketh to perish is about to, etc. Here the writer is true to the standpoint of the speaker.
because ye would not hearken, etc.] The construction is found elsewhere only in another Pl. passage, Deu…