5 Mosebok 4:34

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eller om någon gud har försökt att komma och hämta ett folk åt sig ut från ett annat folk, genom hemsökelser, tecken och under, genom krig, genom stark hand och uträckt arm, och genom stora, fruktansvärda gärningar, vilket allt HERREN, eder Guds, har gjort med eder i Egypten, inför dina ögon.

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take him: Exodus 1:9, Exodus 3:10, Exodus 3:17-20

temptations: Deuteronomy 7:19, Deuteronomy 29:3, Exodus 9:20, Exodus 9:21, Exodus 10:7

by signs: Exodus 7:3, Psalms 78:12, Psalms 78:48-53

by a mighty: Deuteronomy 5:15, Deuteronomy 6:21, Deuteronomy 7:8, Deuteronomy 7:9, Exodus 6:6, Exodus 13:3, 1 Peter 5:6

and by great: Deuteronomy 26:8, Deuteronomy 34:12, Exodus 12:30-33

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:20 - smite Exodus 6:1 - with a strong Exodus 11:1 - Yet will Exodus 33:16 - separated Deuteronomy 4:37 - with his Deuteronomy 6:22 - showed Deuteronomy 9:29 - which thou Deuteronomy 11:3 - General Deuteronomy 34:11 - In all the signs Joshua 24:7 - your eyes Judges 2:1 - I made 1 Kings 8:42 - thy strong hand 1 Kings 8:53 - separate 1 Chronicles 17:21 - greatness Nehemiah 9:10 - showedst Psalms 65:5 - terrible Psalms 68:7 - O God Psalms 75:1 - wondrous Psalms 76:1 - In Judah Psalms 77:10 - the years Psalms 78:43 - How Psalms 86:8 - neither Psalms 89:10 - thy strong arm Psalms 105:27 - They Psalms 106:21 - which Psalms 135:9 - sent tokens Isaiah 64:3 - thou didst Jeremiah 2:20 - For of Jeremiah 32:20 - hast set Lamentations 1:7 - all her Ezekiel 20:5 - and made Daniel 4:3 - great Micah 6:4 - I brought Luke 1:51 - showed Acts 4:30 - By stretching Acts 13:17 - and with

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation,.... As he now had done, namely, the nation of Israel out of the nation of the Egyptians; this he not only had assayed to do, but had actually done it; whereas no such instance like it could be produced, and especially as done in the manner this was:

by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war; the word "temptations" may be considered as a general word, as Aben Ezra thinks, and may signify the temptations by signs, c. or the various essays and trials, ways, means, and methods taken by the Lord to bring about the event by "signs" may be meant those which were required of Moses, and done by him before the people of Israel, and before Pharaoh, as proofs of his mission from the Lord, Exodus 4:1 and by "wonders", the ten plagues of Egypt, which were done by a supernatural and miraculous operation, and were amazing things; see Psalms 78:11; and by "war", either the slaying of the firstborn, with the destruction of the judges and gods of Egypt, as Aben Ezra; or the Lord's fighting for Israel at the Red sea, as Jarchi; he saved them and destroyed the Egyptians, and showed himself to be a man of war, Exodus 14:14

and by a mighty hand and stretched out arm; phrases frequently used when this affair is spoken of, and are expressive of the mighty power of God in the above instances, and in the issue of them, bringing Israel out of Egypt; though Aben Ezra interprets it of the pillar of fire and cloud in which the Lord went before them:

and by great terrors; which the same writer interprets of the drowning of Pharaoh and his host in the sea, and dividing it for Israel; but may be understood not only of the terrors which possessed him and his people then, but at other times, especially at the time of the thunder and lightning, and when they sat in thick darkness, and particularly when all their firstborn were slain; see Deuteronomy 26:8,

according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes; among the men of Egypt, as the above writer, Pharaoh and his courtiers: the above things were done as before them for their terror, so before Israel for their encouragement.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Unwilling, as it might seem, to close his discourse with words of terror, Moses makes a last appeal to them in these verses in a different strain.

Deuteronomy 4:34

Temptations - Compare Deuteronomy 7:18-19; Deuteronomy 29:2-3; not, “i. e.” the tribulations and persecutions undergone by the Israelites, out the plagues miraculously inflicted on the Egyptians.

Deuteronomy 4:37

He chose their seed after them - literally, “his seed after him.” Speaking of the love of God to their fathers in general, Moses has more especially in mind that one of them who was called “the Friend of God” James 2:23.

Brought thee out in his sight - literally, “by His face:” “i. e.” by the might of His personal presence. Compare Exodus 33:14; where God promises “My presence (literally ‘My face’) shall go with thee.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 4:34. From the midst of another nation — This was a most extraordinary thing, that a whole people, consisting of upwards of 600,000 effective men, besides women and children, should, without striking a blow, be brought out of the midst of a very powerful nation, to the political welfare of which their services were so essential; that they should be brought out in so open and public a manner; that the sea itself should be supernaturally divided to afford this mighty host a passage; and that, in a desert utterly unfriendly to human life, they should be sustained for forty years. These were such instances of the almighty power and goodness of God as never could be forgotten.

In this verse Moses enumerates seven different means used by the Almighty in effecting Israel's deliverance.

1. TEMPTATIONS, מסת massoth, from נשה nasah, to try or prove; the miracles which God wrought to try the faith and prove the obedience of the children of Israel.

2. SIGNS, אתת othoth, from אתה athah, to come near; such signs as God gave them of his continual presence and especial providence, particularly the pillar of cloud and pillar of fire, keeping near to them night and day, and always directing their journeys, showing them when and where to pitch their tents, c., c.

3. WONDERS, מופתים mophethim, from יפת yaphath, to persuade persuasive facts and events, says Parkhurst, whether strictly miraculous, and exceeding the powers of nature, as Exodus 7:9; Exodus 11:9-10; or not, as Isaiah 20:3; Ezekiel 12:6; Ezekiel 12:11. It probably means typical representations: in this signification the word is used, Zechariah 3:8. Joshua, the high priest, and his companions were אנשי מופת anshey mopheth, typical men, raised up by God as types of Christ, and proofs that God would bring his servant THE BRANCH. All the dealings of God with this people, and even the people themselves, were types-present significators of distant facts and future occurrences.

4. WAR, מלחמה milchamah, hostile engagements; such as those with the Amalekites, the Amorites, and the Bashanites, in which the hand of God was seen rather than the hand of man.

5. A MIGHTY HAND, יד חזקה yad chazakah; one that is strong to deal its blows, irresistible in its operations, and grasps its enemies hard, so that they cannot escape, and protects its friends so powerfully that they cannot be injured. Neither stratagem nor policy was used in this business, but the openly displayed power of God.

6. A STRETCHED-OUT ARM, זרוע נטויה zeroa netuyah; a series of almighty operations, following each other in quick astonishing succession. Let it be noted that in the Scriptures,

(1) The finger of God denotes any manifestation of the Divine power, where effects are produced beyond the power of art or nature.

(2) The hand of God signifies the same power, but put forth in a more signal manner.

(3) The arm of God, the Divine omnipotence manifested in the most stupendous miracles.

(4) The arm of God stretched out, this same omnipotence exerted in a continuation of stupendous miracles, both in the way of judgment and mercy. In this latter sense it appears to be taken in the text: the judgments were poured out on the Egyptians; the mercies wrought in favour of the Israelites.

7. GREAT TERRORS, מוראים גדלים moraim gedolim; such terror, dismay, and consternation as were produced by the ten plagues, to which probably the inspired penman here alludes: or, as the Septuagint has it, εν ὁραμασιν μεγαλοις, with great or portentous sights; such as that when God looked out of the cloud upon the Egyptians, and their chariot wheels were taken off, Exodus 14:24-25. More awful displays of God's judgments, power, and might, were never witnessed by man.