Deuteronomy 4:32-49 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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:41-49

Here is, 1. The nomination of the cities of refuge on that side Jordan where Israel now lay encamped. Three cities were appointed for that purpose, one in the lot of Reuben, another in that of Gad, and another in that of the half tribe of Manasseh, Deut. 4:41-43. What Moses could do for that people while he was yet with them he did, to give example to the rulers who were settled that they might observe them the better when he was gone. 2. The introduction to another sermon that Moses preached... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:32

For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee ,.... Inquire into and consult the annals of former times, of ages past: since the day that God created man upon the earth ; trace them quite up to the creation of the world, and men in it: and ask from the one side of heaven to the other ; traverse the whole globe, and examine the records of every nation in it in both hemispheres: whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:33

Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of fire ,.... None ever heard the voice of God as they did, much less speaking such words as they heard, and still less out of the midst of fire, which was their case, Deuteronomy 4:12 . as thou hast heard, and live ? which was stranger still, when they might have expected they should, and doubtless feared they would be, as it was wonderful they were not, consumed by it. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:34

Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation ,.... As he now had done, namely, the nation of Israel out of the nation of the Egyptians; this he not only had assayed to do, but had actually done it; whereas no such instance like it could be produced, and especially as done in the manner this was: by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war ; the word "temptations" may be considered as a general word, as Aben Ezra thinks, and may signify the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:35

Unto thee it was showed ,.... What the Lord did in Egypt: that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God, there is none else besides him ; that he is the one only living and true God, and there is no other: this phrase is often used by the Prophet Isaiah, to express the same great article of faith. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:36

Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee ,.... Thunder is the voice of God, and by which he instructs men in the greatness of his power, Job 26:14 , &c.; unless his voice in giving the law, which was for the instruction of Israel, is meant; for that was heard on earth, on Mount Sinai, to which the following refers: and upon earth he showed thee his great fire ; on Mount Sinai, which burned with it: and thou heardest his words out of the midst of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:37

And because he loved thy fathers ,.... Not their immediate fathers, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness, and entered not into the good land because of their unbelief, but their more remote fathers or ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who had some singular testimonies of the love of God to them, Abraham is called their friend of God, and Isaac was the son of promise in whom the seed was called; and Jacob is particularly said to be loved by God, when Esau was hated: therefore he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:38

To drive out nations from before thee, greater and mightier than thou art ,.... The seven nations of the land of Canaan, which were more in number and mightier in power and strength than they, and particularly the Amorites, who were already driven out and dispossessed of their country, even the kingdoms and nations of Sihon and Og: to bring thee in to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day ; referring, as Aben Ezra observes, to the inheritance of the land of the two... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:39

Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart ,.... Own and acknowledge it now with thy mouth, and lay it up and consider it in thine heart hereafter, as a truth of the greatest importance to be professed and held fast, and to be thought of and meditated upon continually, and never to be forgotten: that the Lord he is God in heaven above , and upon the earth beneath; that he has made both, and is the possessor and Lord of them, and does what he pleases with them; that the one... read more

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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:41-49

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:32

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:33

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:34

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:35

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:36

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:37

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:38

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:39

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