Deuteronomy 32:29-52 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:26-38

After many terrible threatenings of deserved wrath and vengeance, we have here surprising intimations of mercy, undeserved mercy, which rejoices against judgment, and by which it appears that God has no pleasure in the death of sinners, but would rather they should turn and live. I. In jealousy for his own honour, he will not make a full end of them, Deut. 32:26-28. 1. It cannot be denied but that they deserved to be utterly ruined, and that their remembrance should be made to cease from among... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:39-43

This conclusion of the song speaks three things: I. Glory to God, Deut. 32:39. ?See now upon the whole matter, that I, even I, am he. Learn this from the destruction of idolaters, and the inability of their idols to help them.? The great God here demands the glory, 1. Of a self-existence: I, even I, am he. Thus Moses concludes with that name of God by which he was first made to know him (Exod. 3:14), ?I am that I am. I am he that I have been, that I will be, that I have promised to be, that I... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:44-52

Here is, I. The solemn delivery of this song to the children of Israel, Deut. 32:44, 45. Moses spoke it to as many as could hear him, while Joshua, in another assembly, at the same time, delivered it to as many as his voice would reach. Thus coming to them from the mouth of both their governors, Moses who was laying down the government, and Joshua who was taking it up, they would see they were both in the same mind, and that, though they changed their commander, there was no change in the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:29

O that they were wise ,.... These are not the words of God, and so no instances of mere velleities, and unsuccessful wishes in him, and as arguing a power in man to make himself wise if he would; but of Moses, under a spirit of prophecy, foreseeing the ignorance and stupidity of the above persons; or as representing a true believer in Christ, in the times in which such men should live; for the person speaking is one that had faith in Christ, the rock of salvation, and built upon him alone... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:30

How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight ,.... This is said for the conviction of the Pagan Romans of their folly in behaving strangely, attributing to their gods what belonged to the true God; for since the Jews were more numerous than they, both in Judea, in the times of Titus Vespasian, when the country was subdued by him; and in other parts of the world, in the times of Adrian, when the Jews rose up in vast numbers, greatly superior to the Romans, and yet were... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:31

For their rock is not as our rock ,.... That is, the gods of the Heathens, the rock in which they trusted, are not like the God of Israel, the rock of salvation, in which all true believers, whether Jews or Gentiles, place their confidence; and indeed let that be what it will, that is short of Christ the rock, men lay the stress of their salvation on, it is no rock, but sand, and will stand them in no stead; see Matthew 7:24 , even our enemies themselves being judges ; as has been... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:32

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah ,.... This respects the false Christians in the Roman empire, who should have taken warning by the Jews, and not have embraced such sentiments of theirs, which had been resented by the Lord, and condemned in them; such as the doctrines of man's freewill, of justification and salvation not alone by Christ, but by their own works of righteousness, saying, "our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done all this", ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:33

Their wine is the poison of dragons ,.... Of these creatures, both land and sea dragons; see Gill on Micah 1:8 ; See Gill on Malachi 1:3 ; Pliny says F12 Nat. Hist. l. 29. c. 4. the dragon has no poison in it; yet, as Dalechamp, in his notes on that writer observes, he in many places prescribes remedies against the bite of the dragon; but Heliodorus F13 Ethiopic. l. 9. c. 19. p. 438. expressly speaks of some archers, whose arrows were infected with the poison of dragons;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:34

Is not this laid up in store with me ,.... The fruit of the degenerate vine, its bitter clusters of grapes, and poisonous wine; meaning the evil principles and practices of the apostate church, well known to God, taken notice of by him, and laid up in his mind and memory; for both she and her sins will come in remembrance before God, and will be brought to open view, and appear to have been laid up by him, in order to be exposed at a proper time; see Revelation 16:19 ; and so the Targums... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:35

To me belongeth vengeance and recompense ,.... Or, I will repay, or recompence, as it is quoted in Romans 12:19 ; and so all the three Targums, the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions, here, and so Jarchi interprets it. Vengeance belongs only to a divine Person, not to an Heathen deity called Dice, or vengeance, Acts 28:4 ; nor to Satan and his spiteful angels, nor to any of the sons of men in a private capacity; though magistrates, being in public office, and representing God, are... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:26-38

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:39-43

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:44-52

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:31

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:32

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:33

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:34

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:35

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