The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:25-31
Judgment leading to mercy. After stating the fact of God's jealousy in the matter of graven images, Moses goes on as a prophet to declare that, if they corrupt themselves in this way in Canaan, the result will be their destruction and dispersion. But in dispersion, if they turn with all their hearts to God ( Deuteronomy 4:29 ), they shall find him and be restored. God is merciful as well as jealous ( Deuteronomy 4:31 ). The following thoughts are hereby suggested:— I. JUDGMENT ... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:25-31
Moses enforces the warning against idolatry, by predicting the evil that should come upon the nation through the apostasy of those who should in after times turn from Jehovah to strange gods. When they should have begotten children and children's children, and had been long in the land, i . e . when in after years a generation should arise that had not known the things they had seen, or had forgotten them ( Deuteronomy 4:9 ), and the nation should then become wanton and corrupt, and... read more