Deuteronomy 32:30
How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight unless their Rock had sold them, and LORD had delivered them up?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
29Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
31For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
Cross References
Joshua 23:10One man of you shall chase a thousand, for LORD your God, he it is who fights for you, as he spoke to you.
Judges 3:8Therefore the anger of LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia, And the sons of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.
1 Samuel 14:15And there was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. The garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled. And the earth quaked, so there was an exceedingly great trembling.
2 Kings 7:5And they rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians. And when they came to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no man there.
Job 11:10If he passes through, and shuts up, and all to judgment, then who can hinder him?
Psalms 31:8and thou have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. Thou have set my feet in a large place.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 32:27-39
26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: 27 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. 28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. 29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! 30 How should one chase a thousand,… Read the whole commentary →