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Selected Verse: Deuteronomy 30:1 - Strong Concordance
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| De 30:1 |
Strong Concordance |
And it shall come to pass, when all these things [01697] are come [0935] upon thee, the blessing [01293] and the curse [07045], which I have set [05414] before [06440] thee, and thou shalt call [07725] them to mind [03824] among all the nations [01471], whither the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] hath driven [05080] thee, |
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King James |
And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
GREAT MERCIES PROMISED UNTO THE PENITENT. (Deu 30:1-10)
when all these things are come upon thee, . . . and thou shalt return . . . then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity--The hopes of the Hebrew people are ardently directed to this promise, and they confidently expect that God, commiserating their forlorn and fallen condition, will yet rescue them from all the evils of their long dispersion. They do not consider the promise as fulfilled by their restoration from the captivity in Babylon, for Israel was not then scattered in the manner here described--"among all the nations," "unto the utmost parts of heaven" (Deu 30:4). When God recalled them from that bondage, all the Israelites were not brought back. They were not multiplied above their fathers (Deu 30:5), nor were their hearts and those of their children circumcised to love the Lord (Deu 30:6). It is not, therefore, of the Babylonish captivity that Moses was speaking in this passage; it must be of the dispersed state to which they have been doomed for eighteen hundred years. This prediction may have been partially accomplished on the return of the Israelites from Babylon; for, according to the structure and design of Scripture prophecy, it may have pointed to several similar eras in their national history; and this view is sanctioned by the prayer of Nehemiah (Neh 1:8-9). But undoubtedly it will receive its full and complete accomplishment in the conversion of the Jews to the Gospel of Christ. At the restoration from the Babylonish captivity, that people were changed in many respects for the better. They were completely weaned from idolatry; and this outward reformation was a prelude to the higher attainments they are destined to reach in the age of Messiah, "when the Lord God will circumcise their hearts and the hearts of their seed to love the Lord." The course pointed out seems clearly to be this: that the hearts of the Hebrew people shall be circumcised (Col 2:2); in other words, by the combined influences of the Word and spirit of God, their hearts will be touched and purified from all their superstition and unbelief. They will be converted to the faith of Jesus Christ as their Messiah--a spiritual deliverer, and the effect of their conversion will be that they will return and obey the voice (the Gospel, the evangelical law) of the Lord. The words may be interpreted either wholly in a spiritual sense (Joh 11:51-52), or, as many think, in a literal sense also (Rom. 11:1-36). They will be recalled from all places of the dispersion to their own land and enjoy the highest prosperity. The mercies and favors of a bountiful Providence will not then be abused as formerly (Deu 31:20; Deu 32:15). They will be received in a better spirit and employed to nobler purposes. They will be happy, "for the Lord will again rejoice over them for good, as He rejoiced over their fathers." |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The rejection of Israel and the desolation of the promised inheritance were not to be the end of God's dispensations. The closing words of the address therefore are words of comfort and promise. Compare marginal reference and Deu 4:29 ff; Kg1 8:46-50.
The chastisements of God would lead the nation to repent, and thereupon God would again bless them.
Deu 30:3
Will turn thy captivity - Will change or put an end to thy state of captivity or distress (compare Psa 14:7; Psa 85:2; Jer 30:18). The rendering of the Greek version is significant; "the Lord will heal thy sins."
The promises of this and the following verses had no doubt their partial fulfillment in the days of the Judges; but the fact that various important features are repeated in Jer 32:37 ff, and in Eze 11:19 ff, Eze 34:13 ff, Eze 36:24 ff, shows us that none of these was regarded as exhausting the promises. In full analogy with the scheme of prophecy we may add that the return from the Babylonian captivity has not exhausted their depth. The New Testament takes up the strain (e. g. in Rom. 11), and foretells the restoration of Israel to the covenanted mercies of God. True these mercies shall not be, as before, confined to that nation. The "turning again of the captivity" will be when Israel is converted to Him in whom the Law was fulfilled, and who died "not for that nation only," but also that he might "gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad" Joh 11:51-52. Then shall there be "one fold and one shepherd" Joh 10:16. But whether the general conversion of the Jews shall be accompanied with any national restoration, any recovery of their ancient prerogatives as the chosen people; and further, whether there shall be any local replacement of them in the land of their fathers, may be regarded as of "the secret things" which belong unto God Deu 29:29; and so indeed our Lord Himself teaches us Act 1:6-7.
Deu 30:6
Circumcise thine heart - Compare Deu 10:16 note; Jer 32:39; Ezra 11:19. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
Nevertheless the rejection of Israel and its dispersion among the heathen were not to be the close. If the people should return to the Lord their God in their exile, He would turn His favour towards them again, and gather them again out of their dispersion, as had already been proclaimed in Deu 4:29. and Lev 26:40., where it was also observed that the extremity of their distress would bring the people to reflection and induce them to return.
Deu 30:1-3
"When all these words, the blessing and the curse which I have set before thee, shall come." The allusion to the blessing in this connection may be explained on the ground that Moses was surveying the future generally, in which not only a curse but a blessing also would come upon the nation, according to its attitude towards the Lord as a whole and in its several members, since even in times of the greatest apostasy on the part of the nation there would always be a holy seed which could not die out; because otherwise the nation would necessarily have been utterly and for ever rejected, whereby the promises of God would have been brought to nought, - a result which was absolutely impossible. "And thou takest to heart among all nations," etc., sc., what has befallen thee - not only the curse which presses upon thee, but also the blessing which accompanies obedience to the commands of God, - "and returnest to the Lord thy God, and hearkenest to His voice with all the heart," etc. (cf. Deu 4:29); "the Lord will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and gather thee again." את־שׁבוּת שׁוּב does not mean to bring back the prisoners, as the more modern lexicographers erroneously suppose (the Kal שׁוּב never has the force of the Hiphil), but to turn the imprisonment, and that in a figurative sense, viz., to put an end to the distress (Job 42:10; Jer 30:8; Eze 16:53; Psa 14:7; also Psa 85:2; Psa 126:2, Psa 126:4), except that in many passages the misery of exile in which the people pined is represented as imprisonment. The passage before us is fully decisive against the meaning to bring back the prisoners, since the gathering out of the heathen is spoken of as being itself the consequence of the "turning of the captivity;" so also is Jer 29:14, where the bringing back (השׁיב) is expressly distinguished from it. But especially is this the case with Jer 30:18, where "turning the captivity of Jacob's tents" is synonymous with having mercy on his dwelling-places, and building up the city, again, so that the city lying in ruins is represented as שׁבוּת, an imprisonment.
(Note: Hupfeld (on Psa 14:7) has endeavoured to sustain the assertion that שׁבוּת is a later form for the older and simpler forms, שׁבי, שׁביה, by citing one single passage of the Old Testament. The abstract form of שׁבי is שׁבית, imprisonment (Num 21:29), then prisoners. This form has been substituted by Jeremiah for שׁבוּת in one passage, viz., Deu 32:44; and the Masoretic punctuators were the first to overlook the difference in the two words, and point them promiscuously.)
Deu 30:4-5
The gathering of Israel out of all the countries of the earth would then follow. Even though the rejected people should be at the end of heaven, the Lord would fetch them thence, and bring them back into the land of their fathers, and do good to the nation, and multiply them above their fathers. These last words show that the promised neither points directly to the gathering of Israel from dispersion on its ultimate conversion to Christ, nor furnishes any proof that the Jews will then be brought back to Palestine. It is true that even these words have some reference to the final redemption of Israel. This is evident from the curse of dispersion, which cannot be restricted to the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities, but includes the Roman dispersion also, in which the nation continues still; and it is still more apparent from the renewal of this promise in Jer 32:37 and other prophetic passages. But this application is to be found in the spirit, and not in the latter. For if there is to be an increase in the number of the Jews, when gathered out of their dispersion into all the world, above the number of their fathers, and therefore above the number of the Israelites in the time of Solomon and the first monarchs of the two kingdoms, Palestine will never furnish room enough for a nation multiplied like this. The multiplication promised here, so far as it falls within the Messianic age, will consist in the realization of the promise given to Abraham, that his seed should grow into nations (Gen 17:6 and Gen 17:16), i.e., in the innumerable multiplication, not of the "Israel according to the flesh," but of the "Israel according to the spirit," whose land is not restricted to the boundaries of the earthly Canaan or Palestine (see p. 144). The possession of the earthly Canaan for all time is nowhere promised to the Israelitish nation in the law (see at Deu 11:21).
Deu 30:6
The Lord will then circumcise their heart, and the heart of their children (see Deu 10:16), so that they will love Him with all their heart. When Israel should turn with true humility to the Lord, He would be found of them, - would lead them to true repentance, and sanctify them through the power of His grace, - would take away the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh, a new heart and a new spirit, - so that they should truly know Him and keep His commandments (vid., Eze 11:19; Eze 36:26; Jer 31:33. and Deu 32:39.). "Because of thy life," i.e., that thou mayest live, sc., attain to true life. The fulfilment of this promise does not take place all at once. It commenced with small beginnings at the deliverance from the Babylonian exile, and in a still higher degree at the appearance of Christ in the case of all the Israelites who received Him as their Saviour. Since then it has been carried on through all ages in the conversion of individual children of Abraham to Christ; and it will be realized in the future in a still more glorious manner in the nation at large (Rom 11:25.). The words of Moses do not relate to any particular age, but comprehend all times. For Israel has never been hardened and rejected in all its members, although the mass of the nation lives under the curse even to the present day.
Deu 30:7
But after its conversion, the curses, which had hitherto rested upon it, would fall upon its enemies and haters, according to the promise in Gen 12:3. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| The blessing - When thou art obedient. The curse - When thou becomest rebellious. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| When all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse - So fully did God foresee the bad use these people would make of their free agency in resisting the Holy Ghost, that he speaks of their sin and punishment as certain; yet, at the same time, shows how they might turn to himself and live, even while he was pouring out his indignation upon them because of their transgressions. |
15 But Jeshurun [03484] waxed fat [08080], and kicked [01163]: thou art waxen fat [08080], thou art grown thick [05666], thou art covered [03780] with fatness; then he forsook [05203] God [0433] which made [06213] him, and lightly esteemed [05034] the Rock [06697] of his salvation [03444].
20 For when I shall have brought [0935] them into the land [0127] which I sware [07650] unto their fathers [01], that floweth [02100] with milk [02461] and honey [01706]; and they shall have eaten [0398] and filled [07646] themselves, and waxen fat [01878]; then will they turn [06437] unto other [0312] gods [0430], and serve [05647] them, and provoke [05006] me, and break [06565] my covenant [01285].
51 And [1161] this [5124] spake he [2036] not [3756] of [575] himself [1438]: but [235] being [5607] high priest [749] that [1565] year [1763], he prophesied [4395] that [3754] Jesus [2424] should [3195] die [599] for that [5228] nation [1484];
52 And [2532] not [3756] for that [5228] nation [1484] only [3440], but [235] that [2443] also [2532] he should gather together [4863] in [1519] one [1520] the children [5043] of God [2316] that were scattered abroad [1287].
2 That [2443] their [846] hearts [2588] might be comforted [3870], being knit together [4822] in [1722] love [26], and [2532] unto [1519] all [3956] riches [4149] of the full assurance [4136] of understanding [4907], to [1519] the acknowledgement [1922] of the mystery [3466] of God [2316], and [2532] of the Father [3962], and [2532] of Christ [5547];
8 Remember [02142], I beseech thee, the word [01697] that thou commandedst [06680] thy servant [05650] Moses [04872], saying [0559], If ye transgress [04603], I will scatter you abroad [06327] among the nations [05971]:
9 But if ye turn [07725] unto me, and keep [08104] my commandments [04687], and do [06213] them; though there were of you cast out [05080] unto the uttermost part [07097] of the heaven [08064], yet will I gather [06908] them from thence, and will bring [0935] them unto the place [04725] that I have chosen [0977] to set [07931] my name [08034] there.
6 And the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] will circumcise [04135] thine heart [03824], and the heart [03824] of thy seed [02233], to love [0157] the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] with all thine heart [03824], and with all thy soul [05315], that thou mayest live [02416].
5 And the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] will bring [0935] thee into the land [0776] which thy fathers [01] possessed [03423], and thou shalt possess [03423] it; and he will do thee good [03190], and multiply [07235] thee above thy fathers [01].
4 If any of thine be driven out [05080] unto the outmost [07097] parts of heaven [08064], from thence will the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] gather [06908] thee, and from thence will he fetch [03947] thee:
1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things [01697] are come [0935] upon thee, the blessing [01293] and the curse [07045], which I have set [05414] before [06440] thee, and thou shalt call [07725] them to mind [03824] among all the nations [01471], whither the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] hath driven [05080] thee,
2 And shalt return [07725] unto the LORD [03068] thy God [0430], and shalt obey [08085] his voice [06963] according to all that I command [06680] thee this day [03117], thou and thy children [01121], with all thine heart [03824], and with all thy soul [05315];
3 That then the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] will turn [07725] thy captivity [07622], and have compassion [07355] upon thee, and will return [07725] and gather [06908] thee from all the nations [05971], whither the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] hath scattered [06327] thee.
4 If any of thine be driven out [05080] unto the outmost [07097] parts of heaven [08064], from thence will the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] gather [06908] thee, and from thence will he fetch [03947] thee:
5 And the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] will bring [0935] thee into the land [0776] which thy fathers [01] possessed [03423], and thou shalt possess [03423] it; and he will do thee good [03190], and multiply [07235] thee above thy fathers [01].
6 And the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] will circumcise [04135] thine heart [03824], and the heart [03824] of thy seed [02233], to love [0157] the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] with all thine heart [03824], and with all thy soul [05315], that thou mayest live [02416].
7 And the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] will put [05414] all these curses [0423] upon thine enemies [0341], and on them that hate [08130] thee, which persecuted [07291] thee.
8 And thou shalt return [07725] and obey [08085] the voice [06963] of the LORD [03068], and do [06213] all his commandments [04687] which I command [06680] thee this day [03117].
9 And the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] will make thee plenteous [03498] in every work [04639] of thine hand [03027], in the fruit [06529] of thy body [0990], and in the fruit [06529] of thy cattle [0929], and in the fruit [06529] of thy land [0127], for good [02896]: for the LORD [03068] will again [07725] rejoice [07797] over thee for good [02896], as he rejoiced [07797] over thy fathers [01]:
10 If thou shalt hearken [08085] unto the voice [06963] of the LORD [03068] thy God [0430], to keep [08104] his commandments [04687] and his statutes [02708] which are written [03789] in this book [05612] of the law [08451], and if thou turn [07725] unto the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] with all thine heart [03824], and with all thy soul [05315].
39 And I will give [05414] them one [0259] heart [03820], and one [0259] way [01870], that they may fear [03372] me for ever [03117], for the good [02896] of them, and of their children [01121] after [0310] them:
16 Circumcise [04135] therefore the foreskin [06190] of your heart [03824], and be no more stiffnecked [06203] [07185].
6 And the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] will circumcise [04135] thine heart [03824], and the heart [03824] of thy seed [02233], to love [0157] the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] with all thine heart [03824], and with all thy soul [05315], that thou mayest live [02416].
6 When [3303] they therefore [3767] were come together [4905], they asked [1905] of him [846], saying [3004], Lord [2962], [1487] wilt thou [600] at [1722] this [5129] time [5550] restore again [600] the kingdom [932] to Israel [2474]?
7 And [1161] he said [2036] unto [4314] them [846], It is [2076] not [3756] for you [5216] to know [1097] the times [5550] or [2228] the seasons [2540], which [3739] the Father [3962] hath put [5087] in [1722] his own [2398] power [1849].
29 The secret [05641] things belong unto the LORD [03068] our God [0430]: but those things which are revealed [01540] belong unto us and to our children [01121] for [05704] ever [05769], that we may do [06213] all the words [01697] of this law [08451].
16 And [2532] other [243] sheep [4263] I have [2192], which [3739] are [2076] not [3756] of [1537] this [5026] fold [833]: them also [2548] I [3165] must [1163] bring [71], and [2532] they shall hear [191] my [3450] voice [5456]; and [2532] there shall be [1096] one [3391] fold [4167], and one [1520] shepherd [4166].
51 And [1161] this [5124] spake he [2036] not [3756] of [575] himself [1438]: but [235] being [5607] high priest [749] that [1565] year [1763], he prophesied [4395] that [3754] Jesus [2424] should [3195] die [599] for that [5228] nation [1484];
52 And [2532] not [3756] for that [5228] nation [1484] only [3440], but [235] that [2443] also [2532] he should gather together [4863] in [1519] one [1520] the children [5043] of God [2316] that were scattered abroad [1287].
24 For I will take [03947] you from among [04480] the heathen [01471], and gather [06908] you out of all countries [0776], and will bring [0935] you into your own land [0127].
13 And I will bring them out [03318] from the people [05971], and gather [06908] them from the countries [0776], and will bring [0935] them to their own land [0127], and feed [07462] them upon the mountains [02022] of Israel [03478] by the rivers [0650], and in all the inhabited places [04186] of the country [0776].
19 And I will give [05414] them one [0259] heart [03820], and I will put [05414] a new [02319] spirit [07307] within [07130] you; and I will take [05493] the stony [068] heart [03820] out of their flesh [01320], and will give [05414] them an heart [03820] of flesh [01320]:
37 Behold, I will gather them out [06908] of all countries [0776], whither I have driven [05080] them in mine anger [0639], and in my fury [02534], and in great [01419] wrath [07110]; and I will bring them again [07725] unto this place [04725], and I will cause them to dwell [03427] safely [0983]:
18 Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068]; Behold, I will bring again [07725] the captivity [07622] of Jacob's [03290] tents [0168], and have mercy [07355] on his dwellingplaces [04908]; and the city [05892] shall be builded [01129] upon her own heap [08510], and the palace [0759] shall remain [03427] after the manner [04941] thereof.
2 Thou hast forgiven [05375] the iniquity [05771] of thy people [05971], thou hast covered [03680] all their sin [02403]. Selah [05542].
7 Oh that [05414] the salvation [03444] of Israel [03478] were come out of Zion [06726]! when the LORD [03068] bringeth back [07725] the captivity [07622] of his people [05971], Jacob [03290] shall rejoice [01523], and Israel [03478] shall be glad [08055].
3 That then the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] will turn [07725] thy captivity [07622], and have compassion [07355] upon thee, and will return [07725] and gather [06908] thee from all the nations [05971], whither the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] hath scattered [06327] thee.
46 If they sin [02398] against thee, (for there is no man [0120] that sinneth [02398] not,) and thou be angry [0599] with them, and deliver [05414] them to the enemy [0341], so that they carry them away [07617] captives [07617] unto [06440] the land [0776] of the enemy [0341], far [07350] or near [07138];
47 Yet if they shall bethink [07725] themselves in the land [0776] whither they were carried captives [07617], and repent [07725] [03820], and make supplication [02603] unto thee in the land [0776] of them that carried them captives [07617], saying [0559], We have sinned [02398], and have done perversely [05753], we have committed wickedness [07561];
48 And so return [07725] unto thee with all their heart [03824], and with all their soul [05315], in the land [0776] of their enemies [0341], which led them away captive [07617], and pray [06419] unto thee toward [01870] their land [0776], which thou gavest [05414] unto their fathers [01], the city [05892] which thou hast chosen [0977], and the house [01004] which I have built [01129] for thy name [08034]:
49 Then hear [08085] thou their prayer [08605] and their supplication [08467] in heaven [08064] thy dwelling [03427] place [04349], and maintain [06213] their cause [04941],
50 And forgive [05545] thy people [05971] that have sinned [02398] against thee, and all their transgressions [06588] wherein they have transgressed [06586] against thee, and give [05414] them compassion [07356] before [06440] them who carried them captive [07617], that they may have compassion [07355] on them:
29 But if from thence thou shalt seek [01245] the LORD [03068] thy God [0430], thou shalt find [04672] him, if thou seek [01875] him with all thy heart [03824] and with all thy soul [05315].