Deuteronomy 32:30
How should echad chase an elef (thousand), 1 and shnayim (two) put ten thousand to flight, 1 except their tzur had sold them, 1 and Hashem had shut them up? 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
31For their tzur is not like Tzureinu, 1 even our enemies themselves being conceders. 1
Cross References
Joshua 23:10Ish echad of you shall chase eleph; for Hashem Eloheichem, He it is that fighteth for you, just as He hath promised you.
Judges 3:8Therefore the Af Hashem was hot against Yisroel, and He sold them into the yad Kushan Rishatayim Melech Aram Naharayim; + 3:8 i.e., Upper Mesopotamia and the Bnei Yisroel served Kushan Rishatayim eight years.
1 Samuel 14:15And there was fearful panic in the machaneh, in the sadeh, and among kol haAm; the outpost, and the raiders, they also trembled, and ha'aretz quaked; so it was a cheredat Elohim (a panic from Elohim).
2 Kings 7:5And they rose up at neshef (twilight, dusk) to go unto the Machaneh Aram; and when they were come to the edge of the Machaneh Aram, hinei, there was no ish there.
Job 11:10When Eloah passes by and arrests and convenes for judgment, 1 who then can constrain Him? 1
Psalms 31:8I will be glad and rejoice in Thy chesed; 1 for Thou hast seen my affliction; 1 Thou hast known the tzoros (troubles) of my nefesh; 1
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 →