King James Version
Deuteronomy 31:22 in the King James Version says “Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 31 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.”
Deuteronomy 31:22 · KJV
For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware. against: Heb. before go: Heb. do
Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.
And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
KJV Study — Public Domain
“therefore wrote”
H3789to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“the same day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“and taught”
H3925properly, to goad, i.e., (by implication) to teach (the rod being an middle eastern incentive)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“it the children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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