Deuteronomy 4:25-31 -

EXPOSITION

Moses enforces the warning against idolatry, by predicting the evil that should come upon the nation through the apostasy of those who should in after times turn from Jehovah to strange gods. When they should have begotten children and children's children, and had been long in the land, i . e . when in after years a generation should arise that had not known the things they had seen, or had forgotten them ( Deuteronomy 4:9 ), and the nation should then become wanton and corrupt, and fall into idolatry (cf. Deuteronomy 6:10 , etc.; Deuteronomy 8:7 , etc.; Deuteronomy 31:20 , Deuteronomy 31:21 ; Deuteronomy 32:15 , etc.; Hosea 13:6 ); then should they utterly perish from off the land of which they were now about to take possession.