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Deuteronomy 4:7

For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, in whose midst God has revealed Himself in so open and definite a manner, as the Lord, our God, is in all things that we call upon Him for? Israel was the only nation with which Jehovah had entered into such a covenant relation, which was sure at all times of His almighty assistance, Psalms 34:19; Psalms 145:18.

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See also Deuteronomy 4:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. HEARKEN, O ISRAEL! CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Obedience demanded (Deuteronomy 4:1)_ 2. The covenant to be observed (Deuteronomy 4:9) 3. Take heed unto yourselves lest ye forget (Deuteronomy 4:15

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    SECOND PART OF MOSES-' FIRST ADDRESS. This contains exhortations to obedience from motives of self-interest and of gratitude to Yahweh, and forms an apparent logical unity with Deuteronomy 1:6 to Deut...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WHAT. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. GOD. a god, or gods. Hebrew 'Elohim. App-4. NIGH. nigh to help. Compare Psalms 32:9; Psalms 34:18; Psalms 119:151;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _For what great nation … hath a god so nigh_ Both noun, _élohím_, and adj., _ḳerobim_, are plural. _Elohîm_may signify _a god_, or _gods_, as Deuteronomy 6:14 and elsewhere; or the general idea of Dei...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Enforcement of the Impending Legislation The main purpose of the discourse, the enforcement of the Laws about to be given, for on the practice of these depends Israel's survival in the Land (Deuteron...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 190 MOSES’ SOLEMN CHARGE TO ISRAEL Deuteronomy 4:7. What nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for? And what n...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    LESSON FOUR DEUTERONOMY 4:1-43 B. SIGNIFICANCE OF PAST EVENTS (Deuteronomy 4:1-40) 1. BLESSINGS PROMISED FOR THOSE WHO HEED GOD'S ALL-SUFFICIENT LAW (Deuteronomy 4:1-8) a. PROSPERIT

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _FOR WHAT NATION IS THERE SO GREAT, WHO HATH GOD SO NIGH UNTO THEM, AS THE LORD OUR GOD IS IN ALL THINGS THAT WE CALL UPON HIM FOR?_ What nation is there so great? Here he represents their privileges...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    4:7 God (d-9) Or '[its] god.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    FIRST DISCOURSE (DEUTERONOMY 1:14 TO DEUTERONOMY 4:43) The long sojourn in the wilderness is now drawing to a close. The Israelites are encamped in the Plains of Moab within sight of the Promised Land...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    EXHORTATIONS TO OBEDIENCE This chapter contains the practical part of the discourse. Having briefly rehearsed the experiences of the Israelites in the wilderness up to the present point, Moses closes...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 4 V1 ‘Therefore, everyone in *Israel, listen to the rules and the laws that I will teach to you...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֚י מִי ־גֹ֣וי גָּדֹ֔ול אֲשֶׁר ־לֹ֥ו אֱלֹהִ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “TAKE HEED TO THYSELF” Deuteronomy 3:23; Deuteronomy 4:1 Strong faith was required by the two and a half tribes to leave their wives and children while they went to succor their brethren. But God's c...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    On the ground of this survey Moser exhorted the people to be obedient, His appeal was based on the greatness of their God and the perfection of His law. Their whole existence as a nation centered arou...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For what nation [is there so] great, who [hath] God [so] (g) nigh unto them, as the LORD our God [is] in all [things that] we call upon him [for]? (g) Helping us, and delivering us out of all dangers...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Gods. Supposing they deserved that title, which of them has the power to shew their votaries such favours as the true God hath shewn to us? The idols are nothing but devils, which seek to destroy. (Ca...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Into what an astonishing degree of nearness, are believers now brought by the blood of JESUS! Reader! pause and contemplate your vast privileges; and ask your own heart that question, Am I indeed brou...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be called an abstract typical system. That is, we see in them a number of institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which wa...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    7._For what nation is there so great? _Moses now repeats in his own name what he had stated in the person of others, as if to shew by additional reasons, that not without cause would the Jews be celeb...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1, 2, 3, AND 4. Let us examine a little more closely these Chapter s, which shew the pains the Spirit took, to set before the eyes of the people all the moti...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    Ver. 7 FOR WHAT NATION IS THERE SO GREAT,.... Not so much for their number, for they were the fewest of all people; nor for the largeness of their territories, for the land they were going to possess...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For what nation [is there so] great, who [hath] God [so] nigh unto them, as the LORD our God [is] in all [things that] we call upon him [for]? Ver. 7. _Who hath God so nigh unto them._] Yea, this was...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _So nigh_ By glorious miracles, by the pledges of his special presence, by the operations of his grace, and particularly by his readiness to hear our prayers, and to give us those succours which we ca...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 An Exhortation to obedience. 41 Moses appointeth the three Cities of refuge on that side Iordan. 1 NOWE therefore hearken, O Israel, vnto the Statutes, and vnto the Iudgments which I teach you, fo...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    MOSES INSISTS ON OBEDIENCE (vs.1-14) Because God had already blessed Israel and intended to bless them more greatly still. Moses urges them to "listen to the statutes and judgments" he is teaching th...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-23 The power and love of God to Israel are here made the ground and reason of a number of cautions and serious warnings; and although there is much reference to their national covenant, yet all may...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    GOD NIGH UNTO THEM, by glorious miracles, by the pledges of his special presence, by the operations of his grace, and particularly, as it here follows, by his readiness to hear our prayers, and to giv...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    Now therefore hearken O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgements 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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 4:7 great H1419 nation H1471 God H430 near H7138 LORD H3068 God H430 call H7121 (H8800)...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THEY ARE FORTUNATE AMONG THE NATIONS BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY HAVE RECEIVED (DEUTERONOMY 4:6). This may be analysed as follows: a They are to keep (shamar) Yahweh's statutes and judgments and do them for...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The new generations taught the lessons of Sinai. Cities of refuge designated. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: The review of God's providences concerning us should quicken us and engage...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Deuteronomy 4:2. _Ye shall not add unto the word._ This would be to debase revelation, and treat the divine law as a defective production of man, that needed additions and retrenchments. Solon, the At...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and Judgments so righteous?_ A RIGHTEOUS BIBLE The appeal of Moses is the eternal appeal of the Bible. That is the appeal to common sense and to...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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._ MOSES’ DISCOURSE 1. In general it is...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 4:7 God is SO NEAR to his people, especially in answering their prayers (WHENEVER WE CALL UPON HIM). God is also “very near” them through his word ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.—From the mention of what God had done for Israel, Moses passes to the obedience of the law. They were under deep obligation to keep it, and in doing so, consisted their wisdom, greatne...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION DEUTERONOMY 4:1 ADMONITIONS AND EXHORTATIONS. Moses, having presented to the people certain facts in their recent history which had in them a specially animating and encouraging tendency,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    NOW therefore (Deuteronomy 4:1) Moses is now making application. NOW therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and to the judgments, which I teach you, to do them, that you may live, and go in a...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Samuel 7:23; Deuteronomy 5:26; Ephesians 2:12; Isaiah 43:4; Is

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    PARTING WORDS Deuteronomy 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is, perhaps, strange to some that we speak of the fourth chapter of Deuteronomy as "Parting words," yet the whole Book of Deuteronomy centers in t...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    So nigh — By glorious miracles, by the pledges of his special presence, by the operations of his grace, and particularly by his readiness to hear our prayers, and to give us those succours which we ca...

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