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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 32:1-42

Song of MosesIf Deuteronomy 32:1-3 be regarded as the introduction, and Deuteronomy 32:43 as the conclusion, the main contents of the song may be grouped under three heads, namely,(1) Deuteronomy 32:4-18, the faithfulness of God, the faithlessness of Israel;(2) Deuteronomy 32:19-33, the chastisement and the need of its infliction by God;(3) Deuteronomy 32:34-42, God’s compassion upon the low and humbled state of His people.The Song differs signally in diction and idiom from the preceding... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 32:43

Rejoice, O ye nations, with His people - Some prefer the marginal rendering.In this profound passage, there is shadowed forth the purpose of God to overrule:(1) the unbelief of the Jews to the bringing in of the Gentiles; and(2) the mercy shown to the Gentries to the eventual restoration of the Jews (compare Romans 11:25-36).The Song closes as it began Deuteronomy 32:1-3, with an invitation to praise. It has reached, through a long series of divine interpositions, its grandest theme in this... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 32:40-42

Deuteronomy 32:40-42. I lift up my hand to heaven I solemnly swear I will do what here follows. It was the custom to stretch out the hand in swearing, Genesis 14:22. And say, I live for ever As surely as I live for ever, I will whet my sword, &c. If I whet If once I begin to prepare for war, and for the execution of my sentence. Mine hand take hold on judgment The instruments of judgments, the weapons of war. A metaphor from warriors that take their weapons into their hands when... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 32:43

Deuteronomy 32:43. Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people So the Seventy, a translation followed by St. Paul, (Romans 15:10,) where this passage is quoted, and where we are directed to consider it as a prediction of the bringing in of the Gentiles to share the privileges of the gospel, and become one church of God in conjunction with the Jews. Or, if it be translated more literally, according to the Hebrew, Rejoice, O ye nations, (or Gentiles) his people; that is, being now his people,... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:1-47

The song of Moses (31:30-32:47)Being aware of the people’s tendency to rebellion against God (see v. 29), Moses left with them a song that he wanted everyone to take notice of (30). The song reminded the people of God’s loving care for them and of the need for faithfulness on their part towards him. It dealt with the future as well as the past, and reminded the people that in justice God would punish them and in mercy he would forgive them.As rain benefits young grass, so Moses’ words should... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 32:40

I lift up My hand = I swear. The lifting of the hand being put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6 , for the thing signified by it. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 32:41

sword. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6 . Compare Revelation 19:15 . judgment = justice, or retribution. Compare Isaiah 1:24 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 32:42

arrows. Figure of speech Prosopopatheia. App-6 . drunk = devour. Figure of speech Prosopopoeia. App-6 . From the beginning = from [the flesh] of the chief leader of. Note the alternation: "I will make Mine arrows drunk with blood, And My sword shall devour much flesh; With the blood of the slain and of the captives, With [the flesh] of the chief leader of the enemy. "Compare Revelation 19:17-21 , to which this refers. See also Ezekiel 39:17-20 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 32:43

Rejoice. Figure of speech Poeanismos. App-6 . The song began with Apostrophe, App-6 , and thus ends, with the same Figure, Moses' eighth address. See note on Deuteronomy 1:6 . nations. Compare Psalms 67:1-7 . be merciful = be propitious. Compare Joel 2:18 . Romans 15:9 . land . . . people = the two great subjects of the song and of the Old Testament. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 32:40

Ver. 40. For I lift up my hand to heaven, &c.— If this verse is to be understood in connection with the foregoing, the meaning is, "For it is mine, and mine alone, (contrary to all those base idols, and false gods, whose vanity you approve,) to lift up my hand to heaven, i.e. in the most solemn manner to attest, that I live for ever, am the only self-existent and eternal God." If the words are to be taken in connection with the next verse, the meaning is, "If I lift up my hand to heaven and... read more

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