Deuteronomy 31:19-21

Joshua Commissioned to Lead Israel

¹⁹ "Now therefore write _m this song and _n teach it to the people of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be _o a witness for me against the people of Israel. ²⁰ For when I have brought them into the land _p flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and _q grown fat, _r they will turn to other gods and serve them, and _s despise me and _g break my covenant. ²¹ And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song shall confront them as _t a witness (for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their offspring). For _u I know what they are inclined to do even today, before I have brought them into the land that I swore to give."

1. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 32:1 - 43
   Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak, and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
   
2. Cross References
   2 Samuel 1:18
   And he said it should be taught to the people of Judah; behold, it is written in the Book of Jashar. He said:
   
3. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 31:21
   And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song shall confront them as a witness (for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their offspring). For I know what they are inclined to do even today, before I have brought them into the land that I swore to give.
   Deuteronomy 31:26
   Take this Book of the Law and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.
   
4. Cross References
   Exodus 3:8
   And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
   
5. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 32:15
   But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
   Nehemiah 9:25 - 26
   And they captured fortified cities and a rich land, and took possession of houses full of all good things, cisterns already hewn, vineyards, olive orchards and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in your great goodness.
   Jeremiah 5:28
   They have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
   Hosea 13:6
   But when they had grazed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.
   
6. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 31:18
   And I will surely hide my face in that day because of all the evil that they have done, because they have turned to other gods.
   
7. Cross References
   Numbers 14:11
   And the Lord said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?
   Numbers 14:23
   Shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it.
   Numbers 16:30
   But if the Lord creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the Lord.
   
8. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 31:16
   And the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.
   
9. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 31:19
   Now therefore write this song and teach it to the people of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the people of Israel.
   Deuteronomy 31:26
   Take this Book of the Law and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.
   
10. Cross References
    Hosea 5:3
    I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore; Israel is defiled.
    Hosea 13:5
    It was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.