Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 29:16

16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt , and how we came through the nations which ye passed by.

Where you have seen their Idolatries, and learned too much of them, as the Golden Calf shewed, and therefore need to renew your covenant with God; where also we were in dreadful bondage whence God alone hath delivered us, to whom therefore we are deeply obliged, and have all reason to renew our covenant with him.

(i. e.) With what hazards, if God had not appeared for us.