Deuteronomy 4:34

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:32-40

Still more to enforce his warning against apostasy, and urge to obedience and faithful adherence to the service of Jehovah, Moses appeals to what they had already experienced of God's grace in the choosing of them to be his people, in his speaking to them to instruct them, and in the miracles which he had wrought for their deliverance and guidance; grace such as had never been showed before to any nation, or heard of since the creation of the world, and by which those who had experienced it... read more

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 4:34

Hath God assayed , etc.; hath he ever made the attempt to come on the earth and take a nation from the midst of a nation, as he took the Hebrew people from among the Egyptians? By temptations ( מַסּוֹת , plu. of מַסָּה , a testing, a trial)— i . e . by the plagues inflicted on Pharaoh and his people, whereby they were tested and tried— by signs and by wonders . "The wonder ( מופֵת ) differs from the sign ( אוֹת ) in this, that the former denotes the properly marvelous,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:34

Hath God assayed , etc.; hath he ever made the attempt to come on the earth and take a nation from the midst of a nation, as he took the Hebrew people from among the Egyptians? By temptations ( מַסּוֹת , plu. of מַסָּה , a testing, a trial)— i . e . by the plagues inflicted on Pharaoh and his people, whereby they were tested and tried— by signs and by wonders . "The wonder ( מופֵת ) differs from the sign ( אוֹת ) in this, that the former denotes the properly marvelous,... 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 4:32-34

Deuteronomy 4:32-34. The one side of heaven That is, of the earth under heaven. Ask all the inhabitants of the world. And live And was not overwhelmed and consumed by such a glorious appearance. By temptations Temptations is the general title, which is explained by the following particulars, signs, and wonders, &c., which are called temptations, because they were trials both to the Egyptians and Israelites, whether they would be induced to believe and obey God or not. By... 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 4:34

hath . . . ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6 . God: or, a god. from, the midst. Here we have the whole of Exodus, compare Jeremiah 32:21 . temptations = trials, or, provings. and. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton ( App-6 ), in this verse. war = fightings. Exodus 14:25 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 4:34

Ver. 34. Hath God assayed, &c.— Another prodigy; that God, by the ministry of two men like Moses and Aaron, should deliver his people from the midst of a nation so powerful as the Egyptians. This might be rendered, more properly, perhaps, Or who besides God hath assayed? or, hath any god assayed? because the expression, hath God assayed, sounds somewhat harsh, when applied to the true God, who never assays to do, but actually does whatever he pleases. In what follows of this verse, Moses... read more

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