Deuteronomy 29:19 (KJV)

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And it come to pass when he heareth the words of this curse that he bless himself in his heart saying I shall have peace though I walk in the imagination of mine heart to add drunkenness to thirst

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this curse. De 29:12 Ge 2:17

that he bless. De 17:2 Nu 15:30 Nu 15:39 Ps 10:4-6 Ps 10:11 Ps 49:18 Ps 94:6 Ps 94:7 Pr 29:1 Jer 5:12 Jer 5:13 Jer 7:3-11 Jer 28:15-17 Jer 44:16 Jer 44:17 Jer 44:27 Eze 13:16 Eze 13:22 Eph 5:6

though I walk. Nu 15:30 Ec 11:9 Ro 1:21 2Co 10:5 Eph 4:17

imagination. or, stubborness. Jer 3:17 Jer 7:24

to add.A very forcible metaphor, denoting the natural progress and increasing avidity of sinful passions and depraved inclinations; which lead men to drink down iniquity as the drunkard does his liquor, without regard to the consequences. Some render, "to add thirst to drunkenness;" and then it implies the insatiableness of men's sinful passions, which hanker for more and more indulgence after the greatest excesses. drunkenness to thirst. Heb. the drunken to the thirsty.

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