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Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:32-40

The deliverance of the Lord's people unparalleled. Moses would have the Israelites to regard God's deliverance of them from Egypt as a matter for the most grateful admiration. There had been nothing like it since the beginning of the world. There was direct and immediate communion with God; there was deliverance of the people from Egypt by unexampled judgments; and all was to show his character as a sovereign and loving God. The effect of such a discipline should be filial obedience. It... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:32-41

The wonderfulness of Israel's history. I. THE WONDERFULLNESS OF REVELATION AT ALL . ( Deuteronomy 4:33 .) It may be argued with great propriety that man needs a revelation; that if there is a God, it is probable he will give one; that the absence of all special revelation would be a greater wonder than the fact of a revelation being given. Yet, when the mind dwells on it, the sense of wonder grows at the thought of the Eternal thus stooping to hold converse with finite,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:37

And because he loved thy fathers (cf. Genesis 15:5-7 ; Exodus 13:15-17 , etc.). Inasmuch as God had loved their fathers, the patriarchs, and had chosen them their descendants to be his people, and had delivered them out of Egypt, that he might establish them in the Promised Land, having driven out thence nations mightier than they, therefore were they to consider in their heart and acknowledge that Jehovah alone is God, and that in the wide universe there is no other. The apodosis in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:37

And because he loved thy fathers (cf. Genesis 15:5-7 ; Exodus 13:15-17 , etc.). Inasmuch as God had loved their fathers, the patriarchs, and had chosen them their descendants to be his people, and had delivered them out of Egypt, that he might establish them in the Promised Land, having driven out thence nations mightier than they, therefore were they to consider in their heart and acknowledge that Jehovah alone is God, and that in the wide universe there is no other. The apodosis in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:37

Beloved for the fathers' sake. We learn, taking this verse with the context— I. THAT THE PIETY OF ANCESTORS IS REMEMBERED BY GOD IN HIS DEALINGS WITH THE DESCENDANTS . He remembers: 1. Their piety. 2. The love he bore them. 3. His promises. 4. Their prayers. II. THAT THE PIETY OF ANCESTORS IS A FREQUENT GROUND OF LONG - SUFFERING AND FORBEARANCE . It was SO with Israel ( Deuteronomy 9:5 ); Solomon ( 1... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:37-38

The dispossession of the Canaanites. (See Homiletics, Deuteronomy 1:1-8 .) read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 4:29-40

Unwilling, as it might seem, to close his discourse with words of terror, Moses makes a last appeal to them in these verses in a different strain.Deuteronomy 4:34Temptations - Compare Deuteronomy 7:18-19; Deuteronomy 29:2-3; not, “i. e.” the tribulations and persecutions undergone by the Israelites, out the plagues miraculously inflicted on the Egyptians.Deuteronomy 4:37He chose their seed after them - literally, “his seed after him.” Speaking of the love of God to their fathers in general,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 4:37

Deuteronomy 4:37. Brought thee out in his sight Keeping his eye fixed on thee, as a father doth on his beloved child. He himself was present with thee, and marched along with thee in the pillar of cloud and fire. With his mighty power And not by any natural strength of thy own, thou wast delivered from that bondage in which all the thousands of Israel so long lived in Egypt. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:1-43

Warning to be obedient (4:1-43)The reason Moses outlined Israel’s history was to show on the one hand that God’s promises did not fail, and on the other that his judgment on disobedience was certain. In view of this, the people were to keep all God’s laws and commandments without altering them to suit themselves. If they modelled their national life in Canaan on these laws, they would benefit themselves and be an example to others (4:1-8).In order that Israel might not forget his laws, God had... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 4:37

because. Compare Deuteronomy 7:7 ; Deuteronomy 9:5 ; Deuteronomy 10:15 . read more

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