Deuteronomy 30

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 30

One would have thought that the threatenings in the close of the foregoing chapter had made a full end of the people of Israel, and had left their case for ever desperate; but in this chapter we have a plain intimation of the mercy God had in store for them in the latter days, so that mercy at length rejoices against judgment, and has the last word. Here we have, I. Exceedingly great and precious promises made to them, upon their repentance and return to God, Deut. 30:1-10. II. The... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:1-10

These verses may be considered either as a conditional promise or as an absolute prediction. I. They are chiefly to be considered as a conditional promise, and so they belong to all persons and all people, and not to Israel only; and the design of them is to assure us that the greatest sinners, if they repent and be converted, shall have their sins pardoned, and be restored to God's favour. This is the purport of the covenant of grace, it leaves room for repentance in case of misdemeanour, and... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:11-14

Moses here urges them to obedience from the consideration of the plainness and easiness of the command. I. This is true of the law of Moses. They could never plead in excuse of their disobedience that God had enjoined them that which was either unintelligible or impracticable, impossible to be known or to be done (Deut. 30:11): It is not hidden from thee. That is, not send messengers to heaven (Deut. 30:12), to enquire what thou must do to please God; nor needest thou go beyond sea (Deut.... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:15-20

Moses here concludes with a very bright light, and a very strong fire, that, if possible, what he had been preaching of might find entrance into the understanding and affections of this unthinking people. What could be said more moving, and more likely to make deep and lasting impressions? The manner of his treating with them is so rational, so prudent, so affectionate, and every way so apt to gain the point, that it abundantly shows him to be in earnest, and leaves them inexcusable in their... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 30

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 30 This chapter contains some gracious promises of the conversion of the Jews in the latter day, of their calling things to mind that have befallen them, of their repentance, and the circumcision of their hearts to love the Lord, of the return of them to their own land, and of the great increase of them, and of their enjoyment of plenty of good things, Deuteronomy 30:1 ; in it is an account of the Gospel, or word of faith, which at this time should be brought... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:1

And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee ,.... Declared, pronounced, foretold, and prophesied of in the three preceding chapters, especially in Deuteronomy 28:1 , the blessing and the curse which I have set before thee ; the blessings promised to those that pay a regard to the will of God and obey his voice, and curses threatened to the see Deuteronomy 28:1 , and thou shall call them to mind among all the nations whither the Lord thy God hath driven... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:2

And shalt return unto the Lord thy God ,.... By repentance, acknowledging their manifold sins and transgressions, particularly their disbelief and rejection of the Messiah, now seeking him and salvation by him; see Hosea 3:5 , and shalt obey his voice ; in the Gospel, yielding the obedience of faith to that; embracing the Gospel, and submitting to the ordinances of it: according to all that I command thee this day, thou, and thy children ; which was to love the Lord, and walk in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:3

That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion on thee ,.... Return them from their captivity, or bring them out of it, both in a temporal and spiritual sense; free them from their present exile, and deliver them from the bondage of sin, Satan, and the law; and all this as the effect of his grace and mercy towards them, and compassion on them; see Jeremiah 30:18 ; The Targum of Jonathan is,"his Word shall receive with good will your repentance;'it being cordial and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:4

If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven ,.... As many of them are in this remote island of ours, Great Britain, reckoned formerly the uttermost part of the earth, as Thule, supposed to be Schetland, an isle belonging to Scotland, is said to be F13 "Ultima Thule", Virgil. Georgic. l. 1. v. 30. Seneca Medea, Act 2. in fine. ; See Gill on Deuteronomy 28:49 ; and as some of them are thought to be in America, which Manasseh Ben Israel F14 Spes Israelis,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:5

And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it ,.... That the Jews upon their conversion in the latter day will return to the land of Judea again, and possess it, is the sense of many passages of Scripture; among others, see Jeremiah 30:18 ; the above Targum is;"the Word of the Lord will bring thee, &c.;" and he will do thee good ; both in things temporal and spiritual; see Ezekiel 34:24 , and multiply thee above thy... read more

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