Deuteronomy 32:30
How does one pursue a thousand, || And two cause a myriad to flee, || If not that their Rock has sold them, || And YHWH has shut them up?
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31For their rock [is] not as our Rock || (And our enemies [are] judges!)
Cross References
Joshua 23:10one man of you pursues a thousand, for your God YHWH [is] He who is fighting for you, as He has spoken to you;
Judges 3:8And the anger of YHWH burns against Israel, and He sells them into the hand of Chushan-Rishathaim king of Aram-Naharaim, and the sons of Israel serve Chushan-Rishathaim eight years;
1 Samuel 14:15and there is a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people, the station and the destroyers have trembled—even they, and the earth shakes, and it becomes a trembling of God.
2 Kings 7:5And they rise in the twilight, to go to the camp of Aram, and they come to the extremity of the camp of Aram, and behold, there is not a man there,
Job 11:10If He passes on, and shuts up, and assembles, || Who then reverses it?
Psalms 31:8And You have not shut me up, || Into the hand of an enemy, || You have caused my feet to stand in a broad 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 →