1. This double-edged nature of the good land as both a gift and a source of temptation will be taken up by Moses in Chaps 6-8.
2. In its various forms, the root appears 175x in the OT.
3. sv, TWOT, The actual word in the text is lehak'iso.
4. See, e.g., Craigie, 139; McConville, 109; Tigay, 52.
5. This is a fore-shadowing of the idea that the worse punishment that God can mete out is simply to give us over to the sins we commit suggested in Rom1.
6. This may be illustrated from the origin of the English verb 'ostracize,' i.e., 'to send into exile' and, therefore, 'to exclude,' 'to sideline' someone. The word derives from a custom in ancient Greece at a time when ostracon—broken pieces of pottery—were still uses as writing material. The person to be exile was handed an ostracon with his name inscribed on it. He was, therefore, 'ostracized.'
7. See, McConville, 110. Of the three verbs used to narrate the exile—gala; ("exile"), nahag ("drive") and pus ("scatter")—nahag, used in Deut.4:27 & 28:37, never appears in Kings or the Prophets, while gala, used so frequently in the latter, is never employed in Deuteronomy.