Who wrote Deuteronomy and who was it written to?
Moses wrote Deuteronomy, which is one of the five books of Moses. It was directed to the children of Israel. The book contains God's warning through Moses that a foreign nation with an unfamiliar language would come against Israel, as recorded in Deuteronomy 28.
Les explains that Deuteronomy is one of the five books of Moses, so Moses is the writer, and it is directed to the children of Israel. He reads Deuteronomy 28:49, where God warns Israel that He will bring a foreign nation from far away, whose tongue they will not understand. That tongue refers to their language. Whether Babylonians, Greeks, or Romans, a time would come when a foreign nation would overrun and invade Israel, and the Jews would have to listen to them speaking in their own language while being occupied. It was a warning to the nation that foreigners would be among them, take tribute, and put them under servitude. Paul later quotes this passage in 1 Corinthians 14:21 to show that tongues were for a sign to the Jew.