Deuteronomy 32:39
See, now, that I [am] He, || And there is no god besides Me; I put to death and I keep alive; I have struck and I heal; And there is not a deliverer from My hand,
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40For I lift up My hand to the heavens, || And have said, I live for all time!
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:35You—you have been shown [it], to know that He, YHWH, [is] God; there is none else besides Him.
1 Samuel 2:6YHWH puts to death, and keeps alive, || He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.
2 Kings 20:5“Return, and you have said to Hezekiah, leader of My people, Thus said YHWH, God of your father David: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tear, behold, I give healing to you. On the third day you go up to the house of YHWH;
Job 5:18For He pains, and He binds up, || He strikes, and His hands heal.
Job 10:13And these You have laid up in Your heart, I have known that this [is] with You.
Psalms 68:20God Himself [is] to us a God for deliverances, || And YHWH Lord has the outgoings of death.
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 →