Deuteronomy 32:30
How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had delivered them up?
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
In Context
29Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
31For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede.
Cross References
Joshua 23:10One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is the LORD your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.
Judges 3:8Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years.
1 Samuel 14:15There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison and the raiders also trembled; and the earth quaked, so there was an exceedingly great trembling.
2 Kings 7:5They rose up in the twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians. When they had come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, no man was there.
Job 11:10If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?
Psalms 31:8You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large 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 →