Bibliography InformationPett, Peter. The Beneficence Towards Them of Their Overlord Is Outlined (Deuteronomy 32:7-14). Not because they do not deserve it but lest their enemies think that they have defeated them rather than it being due to His activity. The picture is that of an eagle teaching her eaglets to fly and ensuring their safety. Ask your (thy) father, and he will show you (thee). For He is always faithful to His people, and in the end sees them through all their troubles. Yahweh’s response was horror at what they were doing and hatred of what they were doing it with. Thus they forgot the One to Whom they owed it all. How often we have to look around and see that all that is spiritual is dying around us. The enemy who are being so successful do not have a Rock like Yahweh. He spread abroad his wings, he took them. For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. For he will avenge the blood of his servants. And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Yahweh’s concession was for him to see the land, but he was not to have any false hopes of entering it. They ceased to be His righteous one. But we must ask ourselves the question, are we open to His divine influence on us? Moses having given his final exhortation to the people, on that very same day Yahweh calls him up to a mountain to have one last look at the land to which he has safely brought his people before he dies, explaining that he will then die on that mountain. The fact that false gods can also later be likened to a rock (Deuteronomy 32:31) suggests that the first picture is what is mainly in mind. a And Yahweh spoke to Moses that selfsame day, saying, “Get you up into this mountain of Abarim, to mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho, and behold the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession” (deu 48-49). It was the first obstacle to entry into the land, for it guarded the pass through the hills. It signifies ruling over them as righteous Overlord. In contrast with Yahweh’s faithfulness and reliability are His people. This is a general statement applied to this particular situation. Is this really the way that they repay Yahweh for all He has done for them? With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the head of the long haired ones of the enemy.”, When He wills He can take vengeance on His enemies. It was because they had become weak and unable to defend themselves. Your (thy) elders, and they will tell you (thee). Study the bible online using commentary on Deuteronomy 32 and more! Commentary Read Deuteronomy 32:1,2 Verse 1,2 — Moses begins with a solemn appeal to heaven and earth, concerning the truth and importance of what he was about to say. They are therefore to ascribe greatness to ‘our God’. Sodom ... Gomorrah - Here, as elsewhere, and often in the prophets, emblems of utter depravity: compare Isaiah 1:10; Jeremiah 23:14. their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter; which may denote the large number of the members of this church clustered together, and the many religious orders in it; which make a fair show in the flesh, but are in the gall of bitterness, and bond of iniquity; and the variety of ordinances and institutions of man's devising: so as the ordinances of the true church of Christ are compared to clusters of grapes, Sol 7:7; the ordinances of the false church are like clusters of bitter grapes, both for their quantity and quality; and may mean also their many evil works and actions, especially their oppression and cruelty in persecuting the saints, and shedding their blood; just as the wild grapes of the vine of Judah are interpreted of oppression and a cry, Isaiah 5:4. And the reason that it is like this is because He is proclaiming the name of Yahweh. Bible Commentary for Deuteronomy 32:32. This introduction of a ‘favoured’ enemy will be like a fire kindled by Yahweh (compare Deuteronomy 4:24) which will even burn their dead, (for even they will not escape), will destroy their crops and trees and the land (compare Judges 6:4-5), and set on fire the lower parts of the mountains. In his final moments with them he calls on them to set their hearts on all the words which he has testified to them ‘this yom’. They are ignoring the lessons of history which might turn them back to Him, and they were forgetting His Instruction (contrast Deuteronomy 4:6). He alone has the power of life and death. In these verses the greatness of Yahweh is emphasised. ‘For you will see the land before you, but you will not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel.’. They dallied with novelties and with the occult. I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men. For even when we have failed Him so badly He comes to seek to restore us to what we should be. Exodus 16:3). According to the number of the sons of Israel. If they were able, let them see to their situation, and help them and protect them. For ‘Vengeance is His’, and He will recompense. But in the end it would result in the responsive among the no-people, the Gentiles, being united with the faithful in Israel in forming the new Israel, the true church of God, which would indeed make unfaithful Israel jealous (compare 1 Peter 2:10). 2013. In ‘b’ they are to command their children to observe them, for they are no vain thing for them, they are life itself, ‘And he said to them, Set your (of ye) heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which you (ye) shall command your children to observe to do, even all the words of this law. These gods could supposedly eat the fat of the sacrifices and drink the wine of drink offerings. Compare Genesis 14:18; Numbers 24:16, both cases where connection with Gentile nations is emphasised. Of how many of us can it be said that we are without understanding? The Charge Is Made Against the Covenant Breakers (Deuteronomy 32:5). The point is simply that for a while He will favour their enemies, who are not a chosen people. Hosea makes it clear that this was after they left Egypt following God’s call (Hosea 2:15; Hosea 11:1). Note in ‘a’ that they are to set their hearts to the words he has spoken that day, for in the parallel it is through those words that they will prolong their days in the land which they are going over Jordan to possess (Moses thoughts are fixed firmly on this triumph which he will never see. It is because they are powerless. So he now tells them to consider what Yahweh has done for them. The wicked will not finally triumph, whether they be the unfaithful in Israel or their adversaries. For the contrast between no-gods and no-people compare Hosea 1:9; Hosea 2:23. Thus in the end will Yahweh triumph. We may not dally with these. He Threatens Judgment On His Enemies (Deuteronomy 32:41-42). Yahweh is the living God, the life-giver. It is not arbitrary vengeance, but vengeance on those deserving of it. He had to be punished but God still cherished His faithful servant, as He had Aaron. Just as Aaron died on Mount Hor (Numbers 20:22-29; Numbers 33:37-39) and was gathered to his people, so will Moses die on Mount Nebo and be gathered to his people. For He raises His hand to heaven with the purpose of making an oath, and can only swear by Himself, for there is none other. Paul reminds us that God is not mocked. There remained but the final exhortation. His doctrine is the gospel, the speech of God, the doctrine of Christ; the doctrine of grace and mercy through him, and of life and salvation by him. Our only hope too is to return to Him with strong crying and tears, but we do not do so because we have grown complacent. Other nations were thus restricted accordingly. Was it not strange that they could do nothing else? All his thoughts are for his people). “If I whet my glittering (lightning) sword. Thus His final assurance to His servant is as to the success of his venture. His words should come as words of refreshing to their hearts. He then faces the people up with their folly and lack of wisdom. The song of Moses. Israel appear to have taken the title over, assimilating it to Yahweh as Abraham had himself done (Genesis 14:22) for use when speaking of His dealings with Gentile nations. I will render vengeance to mine adversaries. In preference to God they turned to demons (compare Psalms 106:37; 1 Corinthians 10:20) which were no god, they sacrificed to them, and to gods that they had never had anything to do with, to new fangled gods who were not even ancient, gods that their fathers had never feared, and they forgot their God from of old Who had brought them into being, Who had begotten them and Who had borne them in pain (He had been both father and mother). Honey and oil were symbols of luxury and plenty. This illustration aptly pictures the children of those who had failed and been doomed to die in the wilderness, being taken up by a gracious God so that he could teach them to ‘fly’. Here it is connected with ‘the name’, that is with the nature of, Yahweh. Deliverance could only be for those who truly sought Him. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity. Their very wine, that which should make glad the heart of man, is like poison and venom. They only have to ask their fathers, or their elders to discover it. That is repeated here with the addition of the presence of Joshua. This probably means ‘at this time’ rather than literally ‘this very day’ (‘yom’ is a time word which can refer to a period of time rather than always signifying ‘a day’). The one who conquers the heights, conquers the land. “When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance. What we set our hearts on will determine our future. The begetting and bringing forth in pain may refer to the deliverance from Egypt. 32:32 For - As if he had said, This is the reason why their rock hath shut them up. They will eat the ample increase of the fields, they will suck honey from a rock, they will even obtain oil from a flinty rock. But if we murmur and grumble and complain it will do us no good. Wesley's Notes for Deuteronomy 32:32. Within His treasure house Yahweh has stored up what the wicked are and what they have done, and will take vengeance on His enemies (compare Deuteronomy 32:42-43). They had become like a party of people who had wandered in the desert and were lost and thirsty, and terrified of the howling creatures around. They made Him jealous (compare Deuteronomy 4:24; Deuteronomy 6:15; Exodus 20:5; Exodus 34:14) with what was foreign, seeking to false gods and false religion, they provoked Him to anger with their idolatrous ways and behaviour. For the suckling with the man of grey hairs.”. For ‘blemish’ (disfiguring spot) compare Job 11:15; Job 31:7; Proverbs 9:7. The verdict having been given at this point, the likeness to the treaty indictment ceases, for having obtained his vengeance the ordinary overlord would pass on having destroyed his enemies, while Yahweh cannot do so. 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