Deuteronomy 32:30
How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Were it not that their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
31For their rock is not as our Rock: Let our enemies themselves be judges.
Cross References
Joshua 23:10One man of you chaseth a thousand; for Jehovah your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath said unto you.
Judges 3:8And the anger of Jehovah was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel served Chushan-rishathaim eight years.
1 Samuel 14:15And there was trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison, and the ravagers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked; for it was a trembling [from] God.
2 Kings 7:5And they rose up in the dusk to go to the camp of the Syrians; and they came to the extremity of the camp of the Syrians; and behold, there was no man there.
Job 11:10If he pass by, and shut up, and call to judgment, who can hinder him?
Psalms 31:8And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast 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 →