Deuteronomy 32:9-52

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:13

He made him to ride on the high places of the earth ,.... Or land, the land of Canaan; by which are meant the towers, castles, and fortified places in it, some of which might be built on hills and mountains; and being made to ride on them may denote the delivery of them into their hands, their conquests and possession of them, and triumph in them; see Isaiah 58:14 ; so the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases, it,"made him to dwell in the towers of the land of Israel,'those high walled and... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:14

Butter of kine ,.... Made of milk, which kine or cows give; Jarchi says, this is the fat that is gathered on the top of milk, he means cream, and which indeed was the butter of the ancients, and is here meant: and milk of sheep : which they give, though not in such plenty as the kine, yet what is very wholesome and nourishing: the philosopher F2 Aristot. Problem. sect. 10. qu. 6. observes, that sheep give more milk in proportion to the size of their bodies than cows: and Pliny F3... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:15

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked ,.... This is undoubtedly a name of the people of Israel; it is to be met with only in three places more, in Deuteronomy 33:5 ; it is generally thought to come from a word F4 ישר "rectum esse". which signifies upright and righteous, such these people ought to have been, and some among them were; and they generally professed themselves, and outwardly appeared to be upright, just, and righteous persons, and were desirous of being reckoned so; which... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:16

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods ,.... Or "with others" F8 בזרים "per alios", Cocceius. ; the word "gods" is not in the text, nor were the Jews guilty of worshipping strange gods or idols in the times of Christ, nor had they been from the time of their coming out of the Babylonish captivity; but the word, as Cocceius observes, is used for "another", as in Job 19:27 ; and signifies other saviours, other messiahs, whom the Jews set up when they rejected Christ, the... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:17

They sacrificed to devils, not to God ,.... Their sacrifices being continued, when it was the will of God they should cease, were reckoned by him not as, offered to him, but to demons, and to such that were not God; they being therein under the instigation of Satan, and doing his lusts, John 8:44 ; just as Pagans and Papists, worshipping idols under the influence and direction of Satan, are said to worship devils, and sacrifice to them, 1 Corinthians 10:20 ; and indeed setting up their... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:18

Of the rock that begat thee thou art unmindful ,.... The same with the rock of salvation, Deuteronomy 32:15 ; repeated and expressed in different words, that their wretched ingratitude might be taken notice of and observed: begetting is ascribed to this rock, as regeneration is to Christ, 1 John 2:29 ; and was true of some among the Jews: some choose to render the words, "the rock of thy kindred" F11 צור ילדך "rupem cognationis tuae", i.e. "fratrum tuorum", Van Till; see Rom.... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:19

And when the Lord saw it ,.... The disregard of the Jews to Christ, their forgetfulness of him, their disesteem and rejection of him; their continuance of sacrifices, when the great sacrifice was offered up; their setting up other messiahs and saviours, and the idol of their own righteousness, in opposition to the righteousness of Christ; all which not only as the omniscient God he saw, but took notice of, and considered, and did not at once pass judgment on them, at least did not... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:20

And he said, I will hide my face from them ,.... Now the Lord proceeds to pass sentence on the Jews for their ill treatment of his Son, and of his followers; which respects judgments that should come upon them, both spiritual and temporal, or corporeal; the former lies in Deuteronomy 32:20 , and the latter in Deuteronomy 32:22 ; and this the Lord said in his own heart and mind, decreed and determined it within himself, and declared it in his word by his prophets, as here and in other... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:21

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God ,.... With a false messiah; for after the death of Jesus, the true Messiah, God as well as man, many false Christs arose, as he predicted, and were received for a time, who were mere men, and deceivers; and their now vainly expected messiah, or whom they look for, according to their own sense of him, is no other than a mere creature, and not God: or with the idol of their own righteousness; which, as an idol is nothing in the world,... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire is kindled in mine anger ,.... Here begins the account of temporal and corporeal judgments inflicted on the Jews for their disbelief and rejection of the Messiah, their contempt of his Gospel, and ill treatment of his followers; and this here respects the destruction of the land of Judea in general, and the burning of the city and temple of Jerusalem in particular, as the effect of the wrath and anger of God like fire kindled against them: and shall burn unto the lowest hell ;... read more

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