Bible Commentary

For they [are] a nation void of counsel, neither [is there any] understanding in them. 28. void ] More exactly forlorn, Heb. ’obed, cp. Deu 22:3, Deu 26:5. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 28 33. It is doubtful whether these vv. relate to Israel or its arrogant foes. The latter I deem … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 32:28”

Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, [and] lest they should say, Our hand [is] high, and the LORD hath not done all this. 27. provocation ] Cp. Deu 32:19, but here the vexation caused to Himself by the foes’ misconstruction. The anthropomorphism is … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 32:27”

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: 26. I would have said, I will ] The meaning of the ensuing vb pa’ah is uncertain: cleave them in pieces (Dri. and the Oxf. Heb. Lex.) is hardly justified by the Ar. fa‘a, which … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 32:26”

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 … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 32:25”

[They shall be] burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. Verse 24. They shall be burnt with hunger] Their land shall be cursed, and famine shall prevail. This is one of the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 32:24”

I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. 23. heap ] According as we point the consonants of this vb., it may mean add, or gather, or sweep up; evils, Deu 31:17. 24, 25 define the arrows of Deu 32:23 famine, fever, plague, wild beasts and poisonous, and war. 24 … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 32:23”

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 22. is kindled ] but with the force of flaring up quickly, Jer 15:14; Jer 17:4, Isa 50:11; Isa 64:2 (1); it is … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 32:22”

They have moved me to jealousy with [that which is] not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with [those which are] not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. 21. moved to jealousy ] See on Deu 32:16. Mark … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 32:21”

And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end [shall be]: for they [are] a very froward generation, children in whom [is] no faith. 20. And he said ] A gloss, it overloads the rhythm. Let me hide, etc.] Deu 31:17 f. their end ] Lit. their afterwards, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 32:20”

And when the LORD saw [it], he abhorred [them], because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. 19. abhorred ] Spurned, contemned, discarded, Deu 31:20, Jer 14:21. The next line gives the motive, not as in R.V., but from grief with his sons, etc. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 32:19”