Deuteronomy 30:1-3 NIV

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

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

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 30:1

Verse 1 1.And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come. He again confirms what we have elsewhere seen, that God never so severely afflicts His Church as not to be ready to return to mercy; nay, that by their punishments, however cruel in appearance, the afflicted, who were destroying themselves as if their hearts were bent upon it, are invited to repentance, so as to obtain pardon. Although, therefore, cause for despair is everywhere besetting them from the burning wrath of God,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:1

Thou shalt call them to mind (cf. 1 Kings 8:47 , where the same expression is rendered by "bethink themselves"). This is the meaning here also; it is not the mere recollection of the curse and the blessing that is referred to, but a general consideration of their own condition and conduct. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:1-10

EXPOSITION Though rejected and exiled because of rebellion and apostasy, Israel should not be absolutely or forever cast off. When dispersed among the nations, if the people should return to Jehovah their God, he would again receive them into favor and gather them from their dispersion (cf. Deuteronomy 4:29 , etc.; Le 26:40, etc.). Moses, looking into the future, anticipates that both the blessing and the curse would come upon the people according as they were faithful to their... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:1-10

Dispersion not rejection. It is very comforting to pass from so gloomy a chapter as the twenty-eighth to such a paragraph as this. In this thirtieth chapter, the onlook and outlook of Moses are much more extended than before. So distantly is his eye cast now, that he actually looks to the further side of the gloomy scene he had so recently sketched, and sees in the horizon a belt of glory bounding his view ( Deuteronomy 30:9 ). So that, although the present darkness and distress into... read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 30:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:1-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 30:1-10

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