Deuteronomy 32:39
See that I am alone, and there is no other god beside me. I will kill, and I will cause to live. I will strike, and I will heal. And there is no one who is able to rescue from my hand.
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In Context
40I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live in eternity.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:35So may you know that the Lord himself is God, and there is no other beside him.
1 Samuel 2:6The Lord brings death, and he gives life. He leads away to death, and he brings back again.
2 Kings 20:5“Return and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people: Thus says the Lord, the God of your father David: I have heard your prayer, and I have seen your tears. And behold, I have healed you. On the third day, you shall ascend to the temple of the Lord.
Job 5:18For he wounds and he cures; he strikes and his hands will heal.
Job 10:13Though you may conceal this in your heart, yet I know that you remember everything.
Psalms 68:20You know my reproach, and my confusion, and my reverence.
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 →