Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 1:30
The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
30. who goeth before you ] Heb. emphatically, the goer before you is He, found only in D as here or with slight differences, Deu 1:33, Deu 20:4, Deu 31:6; Deu 31:8; J, Exo 13:21, has the same part, without the def. art. adding the pillar of cloud and pillar of fire; E, Exo 14:19, the angel of God going before the camp. It is in such differences of style as well as of figure that the distinction of D consists. See Driver on Exo 13:21; Exo 14:9.
he shall fight for you ] Cp. JE, Exo 14:14, and these deuteronomic passages: Exo 14:25: Deu 3:22; Jos 10:14 b, Jos 10:42, Deu 23:3; Deu 23:10.
before your eyes ] LXX omit. Cp. Deu 4:6; Deu 4:34, Deu 6:22, Deu 9:17, Deu 25:3; Deu 25:9, Deu 28:31, Deu 29:1, Deu 31:7, Deu 34:12; Jos 10:12; Jos 24:17. Here Moses insists that the people must prefer their experience of God to the reports of the spies about a situation not yet reached. See Deu 1:27.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 30. The Lord – shall fight for you] In the Targum of Onkelos, it is, the WORD of the Lord shall fight for you. In a great number of places the Targums or Chaldee paraphrases use the term meimera dayeya or Yehovah, the Word of the Lord, exactly in the same way in which St. John uses the term Logos in the first chapter of his Gospel. Many instances of this have already occurred.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Where you were weak, dispirited, divided, raw, and unexperienced, and in a great measure unarmed, and able to do nothing against your numerous, potent, united enemies, but to stand still and see the salvation of God. And therefore now your distrust is highly unreasonable, when you have been hardened and fitted for military service by your travels, disciplined and experienced in some degree as to martial affairs, encouraged by frequent and glorious miracles for forty years together, and you are going into a country divided into several nations and kingdoms.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
The Lord your God, which goeth before you,…. In a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night:
he shall fight for you; wherefore, though their enemies were greater and taller than they, yet their God was higher than the highest; and cities walled up to heaven would signify nothing to him, whose throne is in the heavens:
according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes: which is observed to encourage their faith in God; for he that wrought such wonders in Egypt for them, which their eyes, at least some of them, and their fathers, however, had seen, what is it he cannot do?
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
he shall: Deu 20:1-4, Exo 14:14, Exo 14:25, Jos 10:42, 1Sa 17:45, 1Sa 17:46, 2Ch 14:11, 2Ch 14:12, 2Ch 32:8, Neh 4:20, Psa 46:11, Isa 8:9, Isa 8:10, Rom 8:31, Rom 8:37
according: Exo 7:1-25, Exo 15:1-27, Psa 78:11-13, Psa 78:43-51, Psa 105:27-36
Reciprocal: Deu 3:22 – for the Lord Deu 6:22 – before Deu 9:3 – goeth over Deu 20:4 – to fight Jos 10:14 – for the Lord 2Ch 20:15 – Be not afraid Neh 4:14 – General Jer 31:2 – found Joh 10:4 – he goeth
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Deu 1:30. Shall fight for you according to all that he did in Egypt This was one of the strongest arguments possible to beget in them a firm reliance on the protection and help of God; since they could not but own that the same power which had redeemed them out of Egypt, was no less able to bring them into Canaan; yet even this proved to be of no avail.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
1:30 The LORD your God {s} which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
(s) Declaring that to renounce our own force, and constantly to follow our calling, and depend on the Lord, is true boldness, and agreeable to God.