Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 32:25
The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray hairs.
25. War the climax to these natural plagues, just as in Amos 7.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The sword without,…. Either without the city, the sword of the Roman army besieging it, which destroyed all that came out or attempted to go in; or in the streets of the city, the sword of the seditious, which destroyed multitudes among themselves:
and terror within; within the city, on account of the sword of the Romans, and the close siege they made of it; and on account of the famine and pestilence which raged in it, and the cruelty of the seditious persons among themselves; all these filled the people with horror and terror in their houses; and even in their bedchambers, as the word signifies, they were not free from terror; yea, from the temple, and inward parts, and chambers of that, which may be referred to, terror came, that being in the hands of the seditious; they sallied out from thence, and ravaged the city, and filled all places with the dread of them; and many, no doubt, through fear died, as well as by the sword and other judgments; which it is threatened
shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also],
with the man of gray hairs; none of any age or sex were spared, even those unarmed; not the young man, for his strength and promising usefulness; nor the virgin for her beauty and comeliness; nor the suckling for its innocence and tenderness; nor the aged man through any reverence of his gray hairs, or on account of the infirmities of old age, but all would be destroyed; and never was such a carnage made at the siege of anyone city in the world before or since; no less than 1,100,000 persons perished in it, as Josephus relates e.
e De Bello Jud. l. 6. c. 9. sect. 3.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Deu 32:25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray hairs.
Ver. 25. And terror within. ] Warring times are terrible times. By the civil dissensions here in King John’s time, all the kingdom became like a general shambles, or place of infernal terrors and tortures. War, saith one, is a misery which all words, how wide soever, want compass to express. It is, saith another, the slaughter house of mankind, and the hell of this present world. See Trapp on “ Gen 14:2 “
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
within = from the inner chambers.
destroy = bereave.
man. Hebrew ‘ish. App-14.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
sword: Lev 26:36, Lev 26:37, Isa 30:16, Jer 9:21, Lam 1:20, Eze 7:15, 2Co 7:5
within: Heb. from the chambers
destroy: Heb. bereave, the young. Lam 2:19-22, Lam 4:4
Reciprocal: Lev 19:18 – not avenge Lev 26:16 – terror Lev 26:25 – will bring Deu 7:10 – slack 2Ki 7:5 – behold 2Ki 25:4 – fled Isa 5:27 – nor the latchet Isa 65:12 – will I Jer 18:21 – let their wives Jer 32:24 – what Jer 44:7 – child Jer 51:3 – spare Jer 51:6 – for this Jer 51:22 – General Hos 9:12 – yet Hos 11:6 – the sword Amo 8:13 – General
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
32:25 The sword {o} without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray hairs.
(o) They shall be slain both in the field and at home.