Deuteronomy - 12:9



9 for you haven't yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your God gives you.

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Explanation and meaning of Deuteronomy 12:9.

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For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.
For until this present time you are not come to refit, and to the possession, which the Lord your God will give you.
for ye have not come in hitherto unto the rest, and unto the inheritance, which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee;
For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.
For even until the present time, you did not arrive at the rest and the possession, which the Lord your God will give to you.
Quia non venistis adhuc ad requiem et haereditatem quam Jehova Deus tuus dat tibi.

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For ye are not yet come to the rest,.... The land of Canaan, which was typical of the rest which remains for the people of God in heaven; for though they now enter into a spiritual rest in Christ, they are not yet come to their eternal rest; they are in a world of trouble, through sin, Satan, and wicked men; but they shall come to it, as Israel did to Canaan; for God has promised and prepared it, and it remains for them; Christ prayed for it, is also gone to prepare it, and the Spirit is the seal and earnest of it, and works up the saints, and makes them meet for it:
and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you; and the land of Canaan being an inheritance, and the gift of God, was also a type of the heavenly inheritance; which saints are now born unto, and have both a right unto, and meetness for, through the righteousness of Christ, and grace of God; but as yet are not entered on it, but that is reserved for them in heaven, and they are preserved and kept for that; and ere long shall inherit it, as the free gift of God their Father to them, and which is peculiar to them as children. Jarchi and Ben Melech by the "rest" understand Shiloh, and by the inheritance Jerusalem; so in the Misnah (f); see 1-Chronicles 23:25 the Targum of Jonathan is,"ye are not come to the house of the sanctuary, which is the house of rest, and to the inheritance of the land.''
(f) Zebachim, c. 14. sect. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. & Bartenora in ib.

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