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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Deuteronomy 4:34

By temptations — Temptations is the general title, which is explained by the following particulars, signs, and wonders, &c. which are called temptations, because they were trials both to the Egyptians and Israelites, whether they would be induced to believe and obey God or no. By terrors — Raised in the minds of the Egyptians, or, by terrible things done among them.

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See also Deuteronomy 4:34 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 4:34. _FROM THE MIDST OF_ ANOTHER _NATION_] This was a most extraordinary thing, that a whole people, consisting of upwards of 600,000 effective men, besides women and children, sho...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Unwilling, as it might seem, to close his discourse with words of terror, Moses makes a last appeal to them in these verses in a different strain. Deuteronomy 4:34 TEMPTATIONS - Compare Deuteronomy 7...

  • 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

    HATH... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. GOD: or,. god. FROM, THE MIDST. Here we have the whole of Exodus, compare Jeremiah 32:21. TEMPTATIONS. trials, or, provings. AND. Note the Figure of s...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Or hath God assayed_ Rather, HATH A GOD. The verb _nissah_is rendered in Deuteronomy 28:56 _adventured_. It is also used for the _tempting_or _testing_of Israel by God, Deuteronomy 8:2; Deuter

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 34. _HATH GOD ASSAYED,_ &C.— Another prodigy; that God, by the ministry of two men like Moses and Aaron, should deliver his people from the midst of a nation so powerful as the Egyptians. This...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. THE GLORY AND GREATNESS OF ISRAEL'S GOD (Deuteronomy 4:32-40) 32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one e...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _(FOR THE LORD THY GOD IS A MERCIFUL GOD;) HE WILL NOT FORSAKE THEE, NEITHER DESTROY THEE, NOR FORGET THE_ _ COVENANT OF THY FATHERS WHICH HE SWARE UNTO THEM._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

  • 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

    אֹ֣ו ׀ הֲ נִסָּ֣ה אֱלֹהִ֗ים לָ֠ בֹוא לָ

  • 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

    ISRAEL'S PECULIAR PRIVILEGES Deuteronomy 4:32 Every argument that love and wisdom, the great past and the miracles of the Exodus could suggest, was brought to bear on the hearts of the chosen people,...

  • 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

    Or hath God assayed to go [and] take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by (y) temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Temptations. The Chaldean and Arabic understand this of the prodigies which God wrought in favour of his people; though they may also denote the trials to which the Patriarchs and the Hebrews had been...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    If we read these verses with an enlightened understanding, and paraphrase them in gospel terms, as they really ought to be read by every awakened and regenerated soul, how precious do the evidences of...

  • 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 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

    OR HATH GOD ASSAYED TO GO AND TAKE HIM A NATION FROM THE MIDST OF ANOTHER NATION,.... As he now had done, namely, the nation of Israel out of the nation of the Egyptians; this he not only had assayed...

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

    _The one side of heaven_ That is, of the earth under heaven. Ask all the inhabitants of the world. _And live_ And was not overwhelmed and consumed by such a glorious appearance. _By temptations Tempta...

  • 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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Or hath God assayed (essayed) TO GO AND TAKE HIM A NATION FROM THE MIDST OF ANOTHER NATION, as He did in leading Israel out of the midst of the Egyptians, BY TEMPTATIONS, by which the position of Phar...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Appeal Supported by a Reference to God's Kindness...

  • 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

    24-40 Moses urged the greatness, glory, and goodness of God. Did we consider what a God he is with whom we have to do, we should surely make conscience of our duty to him, and not dare to sin against...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BY TEMPTATIONS; by tribulations and persecutions, which are commonly called _temptations_, which are here fitly mentioned as one great occasion first of their cries unto God, and then of God's coming...

  • 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 4:34 God H430 try H5254 (H8765) go H935 (H8800) take H3947 (H8800) nation H1471 midst...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THEIR RETURN IS CERTAIN BECAUSE OF THE GRACIOUSNESS AND UNIQUENESS OF YAHWEH (DEUTERONOMY 4:30). When they find themselves in tribulation and these things come on them in the latter days, they will re...

  • 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

    _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 4:32 The Lord’s approach to Israel at Sinai was unique. BY A MIGHTY HAND AND AN OUTSTRETCHED ARM represents God’s power (see...

  • 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 4:25-5 Moses enforces the warning against idolatry, by predicting the evil that should come upon the nation through the apostasy of those who should in after times turn from Je...

  • 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

    1 Peter 5:6; Deuteronomy 26:8; Deuteronomy 29:3; Deuteronomy 34:12;...

  • 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...

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