Deuteronomy 4:32-34 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

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 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 not. By terrors Raised in the minds of the Egyptians, or, by terrible things done among them.

Deuteronomy 4:32-34

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 ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?

33 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

34 Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?