Deuteronomy 32:39
See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my hand.
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40For lifting up my hand to heaven I say, By my unending life,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:35All this he let you see, so that you might be certain that the Lord is God and there is no other.
1 Samuel 2:6The Lord is the giver of death and life: sending men down to the underworld and lifting them up.
2 Kings 20:5Go back and say to Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, The Lord, the God of David your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping; see, I will make you well: on the third day you will go up to the house of the Lord.
Job 5:18For after his punishment he gives comfort, and after wounding, his hands make you well.
Job 10:13But you kept these things in the secret of your heart; I am certain this was in your thoughts:
Psalms 68:20\68:19\Praise be to the Lord, who is our support day by day, even the God of our salvation. (Selah.)
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 →