Deuteronomy 4:27 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you. ”

• Deuteronomy 4:27 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Compare with these verses Leviticus 26:33-40 , and Deuteronomy 28:64 ff.

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• Deuteronomy 4:27 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And the LORD shall (s) scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you. (s) So that his curse will make his former blessings inef...

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• Deuteronomy 4:27 - 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...

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• Deuteronomy 4:27 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  scatter. Hebrew. puz . disperse. See Genesis 10:18 ; Genesis 11:4 ; Genesis 11:9 , not used in Leviticus 26:33 , but is used in Jeremiah 30:11 , and frequently: also in Ezek. Compare Deutero...

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• Deuteronomy 4:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you. The Lord shall scatter you among the nations - This was amply...

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• Deuteronomy 4:27 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 27-29. And the Lord shall scatter you, &c.— See the notes on ch. 28: and 30: When it is said of the idols, in ver. 28 that they neither see nor hear, &c. the sacred writer intend...

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• Deuteronomy 4:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you. No JFB commentary on this verse.

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• Deuteronomy 4:27 - 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 Promi...

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• Deuteronomy 4:27 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And the Lord shall scatter you. — Our familiarity with this fact in history must not blind us to its force when uttered as a prophecy. The fact that the Jews were taken captive for idolatry, and...

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• Deuteronomy 4:27 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1-40 , Deuteronomy 27:1-26 ; Deuteronomy 28:1-68 ; Deuteronomy 29:1-29 ; Deuteronomy 30:1-20 . WITH the twenty-sixth chapter the entirely homogeneous c...

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• Deuteronomy 4:27 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Jehovah “a Jealous God” Deuteronomy 4:15-31 How often Moses repeats, “ take heed. ” We must watch as well as pray and keep our souls diligently. We must specially beware of idols-that is, any...

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• Deuteronomy 4:27 - 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 aro...

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• Deuteronomy 4:27 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Observe the vast earnestness of the Sacred Preacher in the arguments he adopts to interest the feelings of the people; and how he dwells, again and again, upon the same very powerful motives to induc...

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• Deuteronomy 4:27 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations ,.... As they were by both captivities; the ten tribes were dispersed among the cities of the Medes, and the two tribes throughout the empire of Baby...

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• Deuteronomy 4:27 - L. 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 teachin...

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• Deuteronomy 4:27 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Exhortations and Arguments. B. C. 1451.       1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the stat...

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• Deuteronomy 4:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Deuteronomy 4:27 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  What Their Fate Will Be If They Turn Away From Him To Graven Images ( Deuteronomy 4:25-29 ). This fate had already been portrayed by what had happened to their fathers who were driven from the la...

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• Deuteronomy 4:27 - 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, grea...

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• Deuteronomy 4:27 - 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...

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• Deuteronomy 4:27 - 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...

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• Deuteronomy 4:27 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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 tu...

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• Deuteronomy 4:27 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Appeal Supported by a Reference to God's Kindness

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• Deuteronomy 4:27 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 28:62-64 ; Ezekiel 12:15 ; Ezekiel 32:26 ; Nehemiah 1:3 ; Nehemiah 1:8 ; Nehemiah 1:9

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• Deuteronomy 4:27 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Parting Words Deuteronomy 4:1-49 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 cen...

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