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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 32:21

Vanities] i.e. false gods: see e.g. Isaiah 41:29; Isaiah 44:10; Jeremiah 8:19; Jeremiah 10:15; 1 Corinthians 8:4; Not a people] i.e. most probably an undisciplined horde of barbarians, whom God will permit to gain the mastery over Israel. In Romans 10:19 this passage is applied to the Gentiles, whose acceptance of the gospel will have the effect of provoking the jealousy of the chosen people and moving them ultimately to follow their example.

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See also Deuteronomy 32:21 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 32:21. _THEY HAVE MOVED ME TO JEALOUSY_] This verse contains a very pointed promise of the calling of the Gentiles, in consequence of the rejection of the Jews, threatened Deuterono...

  • 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

    NOTE THE _ ALTERNATION_ OF THE FOUR LINES, MARKED BY "JEALOUSY, ANGER, JEALOUSY, ANGER". not GOD. no _'el_. App-4. PROVOKED. Compare Romans 10:19. NOT. PEOPLE. no People. Compare Romans 10:19; R

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _moved … to jealousy_ See on Deuteronomy 32:16. Mark the antitheses: no-god (_lo"-"el_), no-people (_lo"--am_, as hitherto outside the nations known and to be reckoned with, by Israel, as unfit to ser...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    God's Vengeance 19  But the Lord saw and He spurned, From grief with His sons and His daughters. 20  -Let me hide my countenance from them, I will see what their end shall be. For an upsetting ra...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 233 THE JEWS MOVED TO JEALOUSY BY THE GENTILES Deuteronomy 32:21. _They have moved me to jealousy with that which it not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 21. _I WILL MOVE THEM TO JEALOUSY WITH THOSE WHICH ARE NOT A PEOPLE_— Nothing can be more glowing and alarming than the terrible denunciations delivered in the subsequent verses against the reb...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THOUGHT QUESTIONS 32:19-33 556. What is meant by the use of the word provocation? 557. What foreign people are meant in Deuteronomy 32:21? 558. Where is Sheol? Explain the use of this term here....

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THEY HAVE MOVED ME TO JEALOUSY WITH THAT WHICH IS NOT GOD; THEY HAVE PROVOKED ME TO ANGER WITH THEIR VANITIES: AND I WILL MOVE THEM TO JEALOUSY WITH THOSE WHICH ARE NOT A PEOPLE; I WILL PROVOKE THEM...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    32:21 *God; (f-12) Which is Not-El....

  • 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

    (21) “They have made me jealous with a no-god; They have provoked me with their vanities: And I will make them jealous with a no-people; With a foolish nation will I provoke them.” St. Paul comments...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֵ֚ם קִנְא֣וּנִי בְ לֹא ־אֵ֔ל כִּעֲס֖וּנִי בּ

  • 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: ISRAEL'S RESPONSE Deuteronomy 32:15 “Jeshurun” is a pet name for Israel, implying affection and endearment. The metaphor employed is derived from a pampered animal which, in consequence...

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    They have moved me to jealousy with [that which is] not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with [those which are] not a (n) people; I will provok...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Vanities. Septuagint, "idols." (Haydock) --- Nation. The Gentiles were of this description, when they were called to the true faith. This excited the indignation of the Jews, as they would neither ent...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The judgments here threatened, will be found in correspondence to their sin. They forsake GOD, and he withdraws the favor of his countenance from them. They provoke him to.jealousy with strange gods;...

  • 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

    21._They have moved me to jealousy. _He now proceeds further, viz., that God, after having withdrawn Himself for a time, would, at length be the open enemy of the people, so as to repay them in kind....

  • 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

    THEY HAVE MOVED ME TO JEALOUSY WITH [THAT WHICH IS] NOT GOD,.... With a false messiah; for after the death of Jesus, the true Messiah, God as well as man, many false Christs arose, as he predicted, an...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    They have moved me to jealousy with [that which is] not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with [those which are] not a people; I will provoke th...

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

    _They have provoked me to anger with their vanities_ By vanities here are meant the fictitious deities of the nations with whose worship the Israelites corrupted themselves: see Jeremiah 8:19; Jeremia...

  • 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

    They have moved Me to jealousy with that which is not God, by turning and clinging to idols of men's imagination; THEY HAVE PROVOKED ME TO ANGER WITH THEIR VANITIES, literally, "their nothingnesses,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Jehovah's Sentence and its Execution...

  • 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

    19-25 The revolt of Israel was described in the foregoing verses, and here follow the resolves of Divine justice as to them. We deceive ourselves, if we think that God will be mocked by a faithless pe...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WITH THOSE WHICH ARE NOT A PEOPLE, i.e. with the Gentile or heathenish nations, who are none of my people, who scarce deserve the name of a people, as being without yoke, without the knowledge and fea...

  • 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 32:21 jealousy H7065 (H8765) not H3808 God H410 anger H3707 (H8765) idols H1892 jealousy H7065

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE OVERLORD'S VERDICT IS PRONOUNCED (DEUTERONOMY 32:19). Deuteronomy 32:19 ‘And Yahweh saw, and abhorred, Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters. And he said, I will hide my fac...

  • 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,...

  • 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 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

    1 Kings 16:13; 1 Kings 16:26; 1 Peter 2:10; 1 Peter 2:9; 1 Samuel 12:

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    I will move them to jealousy with those that are not a people — With the Heathen nations, who are none of my people, who scarce deserve the name of a people, as being without the knowledge and fear of...

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