Deuteronomy 30:1-6

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

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:6

And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed ,.... No mention is made of circumcision of the flesh, which will now be out of use with the Jews; they being fully convinced of the abrogation of the ceremonial law by the Messiah, whom they will now receive. It is spiritual circumcision only that is here spoken of, with which the Jews will be circumcised, when they shall be pricked and cut to the heart, and be thoroughly convinced of sin; when the iniquity of their... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 30:1

When all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse - So fully did God foresee the bad use these people would make of their free agency in resisting the Holy Ghost, that he speaks of their sin and punishment as certain; yet, at the same time, shows how they might turn to himself and live, even while he was pouring out his indignation upon them because of their transgressions. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 30:3

Gather thee from all the nations - This must refer to a more extensive captivity than that which they suffered in Babylon. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 30:5

Will bring thee into the land - As this promise refers to a return from a captivity in which they had been scattered among all nations, consequently it is not the Babylonish captivity which is intended; and the repossession of their land must be different from that which was consequent on their return from Chaldea. read more

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