Bible Commentary

Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, [and] drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, [and] be your protection. 38. Let them be a covert above you ] So LXX, etc.; Heb. let it. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges i.e. To whom you offered … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 32:38”

And he shall say, Where [are] their gods, [their] rock in whom they trusted, 37. took refuge ] As in R.V. marg., so often in the Pss., e.g. Psa 2:12, Psa 46:2. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Verse 37. He shall say] He shall begin to expostulate with them, to awaken them … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 32:37”

For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that [their] power is gone, and [there is] none shut up, or left. 36  For the Lord shall judge for His people, And relent for His servants’ sake, When He sees that their grip is gone, Nor fast nor … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 32:36”

To me [belongeth] vengeance, and recompense; their foot shall slide in [due] time: for the day of their calamity [is] at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. 35. Mine are vengeance, etc.] Sam. and LXX read for the day of vengeance, etc.; and perhaps rightly, see Ginsburg, Intr. p. 168. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 32:35”

[Is] not this laid up in store with me [and] sealed up among my treasures? 34. laid up ] Heb. kamus not found elsewhere, and probably misread for kanus, gathered, collected. In next line read treasuries. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 34 43. It is Destined for Israel’s Foes 34  Is all … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 32:34”

Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. 33. venom of dragons ] Or, foam of. pitiless poison of asps ] Poison, rsh, as in Deu 29:17; asps, or according to some, cobras, the hooded kind, in Egypt and the lower parts of Syria, especially S. of Beersheba, Heb. p … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 32:33”

For their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes [are] grapes of gall, their clusters [are] bitter: 32. These foes of Israel are of the same stock morally (can one produce grapes of thistles?) as the cities whose destruction for their wickedness was proverbial. They are therefore … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 32:32”

For their rock [is] not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves [being] judges. 31  For not as our Rock is their rock, Our foes being judges; 32  For their vine’s from the vine of S e dm And out of the tracts of Gomorrah; Their grapes are poisonous grapes, Bitterest clusters are theirs. 33  … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 32:31”

How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? 30. How could one, etc.] Some ignominious rout of Israel. delivered them up ] Cp. Deu 23:15 (16). Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Verse 30. How … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 32:30”

O that they were wise, [that] they understood this, [that] they would consider their latter end! 29. consider their latter end ] This is weak and omits the preposition to which conveys the full sense understand, or see through, to their ultimate fate, past this temporary triumph over Israel to the punishment God has in … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 32:29”