Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Deuteronomy 32:23
Spend mine arrows — Even empty my quiver, and send upon them all my plagues, which, like arrows shot by a skilful and strong hand, shall speedily reach and certainly hit and mortally wound them.
Spend mine arrows — Even empty my quiver, and send upon them all my plagues, which, like arrows shot by a skilful and strong hand, shall speedily reach and certainly hit and mortally wound them.
Verse Deuteronomy 32:23. _I WILL SPEND MINE ARROWS UPON THEM._] The judgments of God in general are termed the _arrows of God_, Job 6:4; Psalms 38:2;...
SONG OF MOSES If Deuteronomy 32:1 be regarded as the introduction, and Deuteronomy 32:43 as the conclusion, the main contents of the song may be grouped under three heads, namely, (1)...
2. THE SONG OF MOSES CHAPTER 32:1-43 _ 1. The introduction and the theme (Deuteronomy 32:1)_ 2. The foolish people (Deuteronomy 32:5) 3. How Jehovah loved them (Deuteronomy 32:7
Moses'song is a didactic poem, a theodicy in which Yahweh's ways are vindicated. In its sentiments and artistic form it is unsurpassed in the poetry of the OT. Its dominant theme is Yahweh's justice a...
MISCHIEFS. See App-44. ARROWS. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. They are named in Deuteronomy 32:24....
God's Vengeance 19 But the Lord saw and He spurned, From grief with His sons and His daughters. 20 -Let me hide my countenance from them, I will see what their end shall be. For an upsetting ra...
_heap_ According as we point the consonants of this vb., it may mean _add_, or _gather_, or _sweep up; evils_, Deuteronomy 31:17. 24, 25 define the _arrows_of Deuteronomy 32:23 famine, fever, plague,...
_VER._ 23-25. _I WILL SPEND MINE ARROWS UPON THEM_— The judgments of God, enumerated in these verses, are often compared to _arrows._ Job 6:4.Psalms 38:2; Psalms 91:5. So Homer describes the pestilenc...
THOUGHT QUESTIONS 32:19-33 556. What is meant by the use of the word provocation? 557. What foreign people are meant in Deuteronomy 32:21? 558. Where is Sheol? Explain the use of this term here....
_I WILL HEAP MISCHIEFS UPON THEM; I WILL SPEND MINE ARROWS UPON THEM._ I will spend mine arrows upon them. War, famine, pestilence (Psalms 77:17) are called in Scripture the arrows of the Almighty....
THE SONG OF MOSES The theme of this noble Song is the goodness of Jehovah in choosing Israel and bringing them into a rich land. When they provoke Him with their forgetfulness and unfaithfulness, He d...
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 32 V1 ‘Listen, HEAVENs, and I will speak. Oh earth, hear the words that I
MISCHIEFS. — Literally, _ills._ Comp. Ezekiel 5:16 : “I will send upon them _the evil arrows of famine..._ I will _increase_ the famine upon them.”...
אַסְפֶּ֥ה עָלֵ֖ימֹו רָעֹ֑ות חִצַּ֖י אֲכַלֶּה ־בָּֽם׃...
THE SONG AND BLESSING OF MOSES (A) THE SONG OF MOSES Deuteronomy 32:1 CRITICS have debated the date, authorship, and history of this song. For the present purpose it is sufficient, perhaps, to refe...
MOSES' SONG: ISRAEL'S RESPONSE Deuteronomy 32:15 “Jeshurun” is a pet name for Israel, implying affection and endearment. The metaphor employed is derived from a pampered animal which, in consequence...
Here we have the song itself. The first part (verses Deuteronomy 32:1; Deuteronomy 32:1) consists of a call to attention. Heaven and earth are called to listen while the servant of God proclaims the n...
_Arrows. Pestilence, famine, war, sickness, and death, are termed the arrows of God._...
The judgments here threatened, will be found in correspondence to their sin. They forsake GOD, and he withdraws the favor of his countenance from them. They provoke him to.jealousy with strange gods;...
It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22. What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...
We have the prophetic song, which is based on the foreknown fall of the people. First, it declares the perfectness of Jehovah, whatever may take place; it is Israel who have corrupted themselves (comp...
I WILL HEAP MISCHIEF UPON THEM,.... One calamity upon another, which are after particularly mentioned: I WILL SPEWED MINE ARROWS UPON THEM; God is here represented as an enemy to the Jews, as having...
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. Ver. 23. _I will spend mine arrows._] Which yet cannot be all spent up, as he feared of his Jupiter, _Si quoties peccent heroines,...
_I will spend mine arrows upon them_ Even empty my quiver, and send upon them all my plagues, which, like arrows shot by a skilful and strong hand, shall speedily reach, and certainly hit and mortally...
1 Moses song, which setteth foorth Gods mercy and vengeance. 46 He exhorteth them to set their hearts vpon it. 48 God sendeth him vp to mount Nebo, to see the land, and die. 1 GIUE eare, O yee heau...
I will heap mischiefs upon them, evils of every kind; I WILL SEND MINE ARROWS UPON THEM, use them up in bringing retribution upon them....
Jehovah's Sentence and its Execution...
GOD: MAJESTIC AND FAITHFUL (vs.l-4) In these four verses the introduction of this song of Moses is both magnificent and beautiful. The heavens and the earth are called to hear the faithful words from...
19-25 The revolt of Israel was described in the foregoing verses, and here follow the resolves of Divine justice as to them. We deceive ourselves, if we think that God will be mocked by a faithless pe...
i.e. Even empty my quiver, and send upon them all my plagues, which, like arrows shot by a skilful and strong hand, shall speedily reach, and certainly hit, and mortally wound them. Compare MALACHI 9:...
"And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words; of this song, until they were ended." It is not too much to say that one of the very grandest and most comprehensive sections...
Deuteronomy 32:23 heap H5595 (H8686) disasters H7451 spend H3615 (H8762) arrows H2671 heap mischiefs -...
CHAPTER 32 THE SONG OF MOSES. Having written the Complaint Document as a song to be sung by the children of Israel until its words were fulfilled and it could be called on as a witness against them,...
THE OVERLORD'S VERDICT IS PRONOUNCED (DEUTERONOMY 32:19). Deuteronomy 32:19 ‘And Yahweh saw, and abhorred, Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters. And he said, I will hide my fac...
CONTENTS: The song and exhortation of Moses. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Joshua. CONCLUSION: The warning and consoling words of God sent down from heaven should sink into our hearts and soften them as t...
Deuteronomy 32:1. _Give ear, oh ye heavens, and I will speak._ This ode, which is full of rhythm, and of almost every poetic excellence and beauty, has been called the Swan song of Moses, who died sin...
The song composed by Moses and recited to the people as a witness against them. “It embraces the whole future history of Israel, and bears all the marks of prophetic testimony in the perfectly ideal p...
EXPOSITION SONG OF MOSES AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS DEATH. In accordance with the Divine injunction, Moses composed an ode, which he recited in the hearing of the people, and committed to writing, to re...
So this is the song that Moses taught the children of Israel. And incidentally it was the first hit rock song. It is a song about the Rock. Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye gre...
Deuteronomy 28:15; Ezekiel 14:21; Ezekiel 5:16; Isaiah 24:17;...