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but with him who stands here with us this day before Yahweh our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day
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A Covenant for All Time
Commentators overwhelmingly agree that the phrase "him that is not here with us this day" refers to Israel's future generations. Scholars like Barnes, Ellicott, and Spurgeon explain that the covenant Moses established was not just for the people standing there, but was a perpetual, national bond for their children and their children's children.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
With him who is not here with us - that is, as the Jews explain, posterity, which throughout all generations was to be taken as bound by the…
19th Century
Anglican
Neither with you only ... but ... also with him that is not here with us this day — that is, “also with generati…
Baptist
With the sick who were at home, with the generations that were not yet born, for this was intended to be a national covenant in perpetuity to their…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But with [him] that stands here with us this day before the Lord our God Who are befo…
The national covenant made with Israel not only prefigured the covenant of grace made with true believers but also represented the outward dispensa…
