Deuteronomy 4:29-31 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:1-40

This most lively and excellent discourse is so entire, and the particulars of it are so often repeated, that we must take it altogether in the exposition of it, and endeavour to digest it into proper heads, for we cannot divide it into paragraphs. I. In general, it is the use and application of the foregoing history; it comes in by way of inference from it: Now therefore harken, O Israel, Deut. 4:1. This use we should make of the review of God's providences concerning us, we should by them be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:29

But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God ,.... By prayer and supplication, acknowledging and confessing sin, and desiring that God would be gracious and forgive it, and bring them out of their miserable condition; even if out of those depths of affliction and distress, and though scattered about in the world, and in the uttermost parts of it: thou shalt find him ; to be a God hearing and answering prayer, gracious and merciful, ready to help and deliver: if they seek him... read more

John Gill

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

When thou art in tribulation ,.... In a strange land, in the power of a foreign enemy, and used ill: and all these things are come upon thee ; captivity, thraldom, hard labour, and want of the necessaries of life: even in the latter days : in their present captivity for the rejection of the Messiah: if thou turn to the Lord thy God ; as the Jews will when they are converted and brought to a sense of their sin, and of their need of Christ, and seek to him as their Saviour, as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:31

For the Lord thy God is a merciful God ,.... In Christ, in whom he has proclaimed his name as such, of which Moses had a comfortable view, Exodus 34:6 and therefore could attest it from his own knowledge and experience: he will not forsake thee ; though in a strange country, but bring them from thence into their own land again, and favour them with his gracious presence in his house and ordinances: neither destroy thee ; from being a people; and in a very wonderful manner are they... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 4:29

But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord - God is longsuffering, and of tender mercy; and waits, ever ready, to receive a backsliding soul when it returns to him. Is not this promise left on record for the encouragement and salvation of lost Israel? read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 4:30

When thou art in tribulation in the latter days - Are not these the times spoken of? And is there not still hope for Israel? Could we see them become zealous for their own law and religious observances - could we see them humble themselves before the God of Jacob - could we see them conduct their public worship with any tolerable decency and decorum - could we see them zealous to avoid every moral evil, inquiring the road to Zion, with their faces thitherward; then might we hope that the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 4:29

Verse 29 29.But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord. In this passage also he exhorts and encourages them in the confidence of obtaining pardon, and thus anticipates them, so that they might not be overwhelmed with sorrow when smitten by God’s hand; for despair awakens such rage in the wretched that they cannot submit themselves to God. He sets before them, then, another object in their punishments, that they may not cease to taste of God’s goodness in the midst of their afflictions, whereby... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 4:30

Verse 30 30.When thou art in tribulation. He here shews the advantage of punishments, on the ground of their usefulness and profit; for what the Apostle says is confirmed by experience, that “no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them that are exercised thereby.” (Hebrews 12:11.) Lest, therefore, they should be provoked to wrath by God’s stripes, he reminds them of their usefulness to them,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:1-40

EXPOSITION ADMONITIONS AND EXHORTATIONS . Moses, having presented to the people certain facts in their recent history which had in them a specially animating and encouraging tendency, proceeds to direct his discourse to the inculcation of duties and exhortations to obedience to the Divine enactments. This portion also of his address is of an introductory character as well as what precedes. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:23-32

National backsliding. The history of the Jews is an unanswerable argument in favor of the truth of prophecy and the reality of Divine revelation. The singularity of that history is such as can only be fully accounted for on the idea of a supernatural Providence interesting itself in their fortunes; but the strangest fact is in that, their own sacred books, this wonderful history is predicted with minute precision. The Book of Deuteronomy furnishes a series of these predictions, the... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:1-40

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:29

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:31

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 4:29

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 4:30

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 4:29

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 4:30

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:1-40

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:23-32

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