Deuteronomy 32:27

but I didn't want to hear their conquerors jeering, their enemies misunderstanding what had happened and saying, ‘We won all by ourselves, the Lord didn't have anything to do with it.’

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

26I would have told them I was going to cut them to pieces and wipe out even the memory of them;

28Israel is a nation that doesn't think straight; none of them understand anything.

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Cross References

Exodus 32:12Why should the Egyptians be able to say, ‘He brought them out with the evil purpose of killing them in the mountains, wiping them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger. Please change your mind over the threat against your people.

Deuteronomy 9:28If you don't, those people back in Egypt will say, ‘The Lord brought them out to kill them in the desert because he couldn't take them to the land he'd promised them, and because he hated them.’

1 Samuel 12:22The fact is because of the kind of person the Lord is, he won't give up on his people, because he was happy to claim you as his own.

Psalms 115:1Not to us, Lord, not to us, but to you all glory should be given, because of your trustworthy love and faithfulness.

Psalms 140:9May the harm spoken against me by those who surround me fall back on them,

Isaiah 10:12Once the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will punish the king of Assyria for his terrible arrogance and for the conceited look in his eyes.

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 →

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