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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 32:12

There was no strange god with him] i.e. with Jehovah. He did everything for Israel. No other god, therefore, has any claim upon their gratitude and obedience.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 32:12. SO _THE LORD ALONE DID LEAD HIM_] By his power, and by his only, were they brought out of Egypt, and supported in the wilderness. _AND_ THERE WAS _NO STRANGE GOD_] They had...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SONG OF MOSES If Deuteronomy 32:1 be regarded as the introduction, and Deuteronomy 32:43 as the conclusion, the main contents of the song may be grouped under three heads, namely, (1)...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    2. THE SONG OF MOSES CHAPTER 32:1-43 _ 1. The introduction and the theme (Deuteronomy 32:1)_ 2. The foolish people (Deuteronomy 32:5) 3. How Jehovah loved them (Deuteronomy 32:7

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Moses'song is a didactic poem, a theodicy in which Yahweh's ways are vindicated. In its sentiments and artistic form it is unsurpassed in the poetry of the OT. Its dominant theme is Yahweh's justice a...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HIM. Note Figure of speech _Epistrophe_ (App-6), each line ending with same word "him" in Hebrew and English for emphasis, as Deuteronomy 32:10. GOD. Hebrew. _el_. (See App-4.)...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Origin and Progress of Israel 7  Remember the days of old, Scan the years, age upon age; Ask of thy sire that he shew thee, Thine elders, that they may tell thee. 8  When the Highest gave nations...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _did lead him_ Still the imperf. for vividness. _strange_ Not the adj. in Deuteronomy 32:16, but _foreign_, Deuteronomy 15:3; Deuteronomy 31:16. 13  He made him to ride the highlands,...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 232 GOD’S REGARD FOR HIS PEOPLE Deuteronomy 32:9. The Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob it the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness;...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 11, 12. _AS AN EAGLE STIRRETH UP HER NEST,_ &C.— Moses, in this and the following verse, elegantly describes the paternal tenderness of God towards the Israelites: _Like an eagle, which stirret...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. THE SONG OF MOSES (Deuteronomy 31:30 to Deuteronomy 32:47) The song is difficult to outline, but the main contents may be grouped as follows: INTRODUCTION Deuteronomy 31:30 to...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _SO THE LORD ALONE DID LEAD HIM, AND THERE WAS NO STRANGE GOD WITH HIM._ So the Lord alone did lead him ... Isaiah (Isaiah 63:11) represents the Holy Spirit as the conductor of Israel through the wil...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 32 V1 ‘Listen, HEAVENs, and I will speak. Oh earth, hear the words that I

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (11, 12) “As an eagle awakeneth her nest, Over her young she broodeth, She spreadeth out her wings, she taketh up each one of them, She beareth him on her pinions: Jehovah alone leadeth him, And a s...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יְהוָ֖ה בָּדָ֣ד יַנְחֶ֑נּוּ וְ אֵ֥ין עִמֹּ֖ו...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE SONG AND BLESSING OF MOSES (A) THE SONG OF MOSES Deuteronomy 32:1 CRITICS have debated the date, authorship, and history of this song. For the present purpose it is sufficient, perhaps, to refe...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    MOSES' SONG: THE LORD'S FAVOR UPON ISRAEL Deuteronomy 31:30; Deuteronomy 32:1 The song of Moses, like the fabled song of the swan, was his last and sweetest. It is probably the noblest ode in the who...

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

    Here we have the song itself. The first part (verses Deuteronomy 32:1; Deuteronomy 32:1) consists of a call to attention. Heaven and earth are called to listen while the servant of God proclaims the n...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _With him, to stand up in their defence, though the Israelites adored but too many others in the desert._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The figure here made use of, of the eagle, is uncommonly beautiful and striking; and especially, if, as some naturalists have said, the eagle, not only protects, feeds, and nourisheth her young, but i...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22. What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    12._So the Lord alone did lead hive. _This is spoken by anticipation, in order to take away every pretext from the Israelites, provided they should seek, according to their custom, to mingle their sup...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    We have the prophetic song, which is based on the foreknown fall of the people. First, it declares the perfectness of Jehovah, whatever may take place; it is Israel who have corrupted themselves (comp...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    [SO] THE LORD ALONE DID LEAD HIM,.... Out of Egypt, through the wilderness, to the land of Canaan, going before them in a pillar of fire and cloud; though this is not to be understood to the exclusion...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Deuteronomy 32:12 [So] the LORD alone did lead him, and [there was] no strange god with him. Ver. 12. _And there was no strange god with him._] Why, then, should any share with him in his service? Be...

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

    So With such tenderness and care; _the Lord alone did lead him_ When they were shut up in Egypt, as in their nest, whence they durst not venture to fly or stir, he taught, and encouraged, and enabled...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Moses song, which setteth foorth Gods mercy and vengeance. 46 He exhorteth them to set their hearts vpon it. 48 God sendeth him vp to mount Nebo, to see the land, and die. 1 GIUE eare, O yee heau...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    so the Lord alone did lead him, the people of Israel, AND THERE WAS NO STRANGE GOD WITH HIM. Jehovah being their only Helper and Stay, the children of Israel were under obligation to serve Him alone a...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Israel's Position and Apostasy...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD: MAJESTIC AND FAITHFUL (vs.l-4) In these four verses the introduction of this song of Moses is both magnificent and beautiful. The heavens and the earth are called to hear the faithful words from...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-14 Moses gives particular instances of God's kindness and concern for them. The eagle's care for her young is a beautiful emblem of Christ's love, who came between Divine justice and our guilty sou...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    i.e. When they were shut up in Egypt, as in their nest, whence they durst not venture to fly nor stir, he taught, and encouraged, and enabled them to fly out and flee themselves from that bondage, and...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words; of this song, until they were ended." It is not too much to say that one of the very grandest and most comprehensive sections...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 32:12 LORD H3068 alone H910 led H5148 (H8686) foreign H5236 god H410 the Lord -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BENEFICENCE TOWARDS THEM OF THEIR OVERLORD IS OUTLINED (DEUTERONOMY 32:7). Deuteronomy 32:7 “Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations, Ask your (thy) father, and he wil...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 32 THE SONG OF MOSES. Having written the Complaint Document as a song to be sung by the children of Israel until its words were fulfilled and it could be called on as a witness against them,...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Deuteronomy 32:11 Without attaching any mystic meaning to this figure of the eagle, we may readily discover the great principles of God's action that it was intended to illustrate. I. The Divine disc...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The song and exhortation of Moses. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Joshua. CONCLUSION: The warning and consoling words of God sent down from heaven should sink into our hearts and soften them as t...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Deuteronomy 32:1. _Give ear, oh ye heavens, and I will speak._ This ode, which is full of rhythm, and of almost every poetic excellence and beauty, has been called the Swan song of Moses, who died sin...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _As an eagle stirreth up her nest._ THE SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE OF HUMANITY I. The great end of the spiritual discipline of humanity is to secure the right action of our powers. What is right action?...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    The song composed by Moses and recited to the people as a witness against them. “It embraces the whole future history of Israel, and bears all the marks of prophetic testimony in the perfectly ideal p...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION SONG OF MOSES AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS DEATH. In accordance with the Divine injunction, Moses composed an ode, which he recited in the hearing of the people, and committed to writing, to re...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So this is the song that Moses taught the children of Israel. And incidentally it was the first hit rock song. It is a song about the Rock. Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye gre...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 1:31; Isaiah 43:11; Isaiah 43:12; Isaiah 44:7; Isaiah 44:8

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Did lead them — When they were shut up in Egypt as in their nest whence they durst not venture to fly nor stir, he taught and encouraged and enabled them to fly out from that bondage, he dealt tenderl...

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