Deuteronomy 4:27

and YHWH has scattered you among the peoples, and you have been left few in number among the nations to where YHWH leads you,

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In The King James Version

And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.

In Context

26I have caused the heavens and the earth to testify against you this day, that you perish utterly quickly from off the land to where you are passing over the Jordan to possess it; you do not prolong days on it, but are utterly destroyed;

28and you have served gods there, work of man’s hands, wood and stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:36YHWH causes you and your king whom you raise up over you to go to a nation which you have not known, you and your fathers, and you have served other gods there—wood and stone;

Deuteronomy 28:63And it has been, as YHWH has rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so YHWH rejoices over you to destroy you and to lay you waste; and you have been pulled away from off the ground to where you are going in to possess it;

Nehemiah 1:8Please remember the word that You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, You trespass—I scatter you among peoples;

Ezekiel 11:16it [is] ours, the land has been given for an inheritance; therefore say, Thus said Lord YHWH: Because I put them far off among nations, || And because I scattered them through lands, I am also for a little sanctuary to them, || In lands to where they have gone in.

Ezekiel 20:23I also, I have lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, || To scatter them among nations, || And to spread them through lands.

Hosea 9:17My God rejects them, || Because they have not listened to Him, || And they are wanderers among nations!”

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 4:2-41

Exhortations and Arguments. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you. 2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. 3 Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed… Read the whole commentary →

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