Deuteronomy 32:30
How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousande to flight, except their strong God had sold the, and the Lord had shut them vp?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
29Oh that they were wise, then they would vnderstand this: they would consider their latter ende.
31For their god is not as our God, euen our enemies being iudges.
Cross References
Joshua 23:10One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the Lord your God, he fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.
Judges 3:8Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he solde them into the hand of Chushan rishathaim King of Aram-naharaim, and the children of Israel serued Chushan rishathaim eyght yeeres.
1 Samuel 14:15And there was a feare in the hoste, and in the field, and among all the people: the garison also, and they that went out to spoyle, were afraid themselues: and the earth trembled: for it was striken with feare by God.
2 Kings 7:5So they rose vp in the twilight, to goe to the campe of the Aramites: and when they were come to the vtmost part of the campe of the Aramites, loe, there was no man there.
Job 11:10If hee cut off and shut vp, or gather together, who can turne him backe?
Psalms 31:8And thou hast not shut me vp in the hand of the enemie, but hast set my feete at large.
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 →