Deuteronomy 32:30
Oh! how would one, have chased, a thousand! And, two, put, ten thousand to flight,—Were it not that their Rock had sold them, And, Yahweh, had abandoned them;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
31For, not like our Rock, is their rock, Our enemies themselves, being judges;
Cross References
Joshua 23:10One man of you, can chase a thousand,—for, Yahweh your God, is he that fighteth for you, as he spake to you.
Judges 3:8Then kindled the anger of Yahweh upon Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia,—and the sons of Israel served Chushan-rishathaim, eight years.
1 Samuel 14:15And there came to be a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people, the outposts and the spoilers, they too, trembled,—and the earth quaked, so it became a preternatural trembling.
2 Kings 7:5So they rose up in the twilight, to enter into the camp of the Syrians,—and, when they entered the outskirts of the camp of the Syrians, lo! there was not there, a man.
Job 11:10If he sweep on, or shut up, or call together, Who then shall hinder him?
Psalms 31:8And hast not shut me up in the hand of the foe, Thou hast given standing, in a roomy place, unto my feet.
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 →