Deuteronomy 30:3

_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,_ When all these things are come upon thee, and thou ... return ... then the Lord ... 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 outmost parts of heaven" (Deuteronomy 30:4); and when God recalled them from that bondage, all the Israelites were

1-10 In this chapter is a plain intimation of the mercy God has in store for Israel in the latter days. This passage refers to the prophetic warnings of the last two chapters, which have been mainly fulfilled in the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, and in their dispersion to the present day; and there can be no doubt that the prophetic promise contained in these verses yet remain to come to pass. The Jewish nation shall in some future period, perhaps not very distant, be converted to the faith of Christ; and, many think, again settled in the land of Canaan. The language here used is in a great measure absolute promises; not merely a conditional engagement, but declaring an event assuredly to take place. For the Lord himself here engages to "circumcise their hearts;" and when regenerating grace has removed corrupt nature, and Divine love has supplanted the love of sin, they certai...

Verse Deuteronomy 30:3. _GATHER THEE FROM ALL THE NATIONS_] This must refer to a more extensive captivity than that which they suffered in Babylon....

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 Deuteronomy 4:29 ff; 1 Kings 8:46. The chastisements of God would lead the nation to repent, and thereupon God would again bless them. Deuteronomy 30:3 WILL TURN THY CAPTIVITY - Will change or put an end to thy state of captivity or distress (compare Psalms 14:7;...

EXPOSITION DEUTERONOMY 30:1 Though rejected and exiled because of rebellion and apostasy, Israel should not be absolutely or forever cast off. When dispersed among the nations, if the people should return to Jehovah their God, he would again receive them into favor and gather them from their dispersion (cf. Deuteronomy 4:29, etc.; Leviticus 26:40, etc.). Moses, looking into the future, anticipates that both the blessing and the curse would come upon the people according as they were faithful to their covenant engagement and obedient to God's Law, or were disobedient and unfaithful. But even when the curse came upon them to the full, this would not amount to final re

THAT THEN THE LORD THY GOD WILL TURN THY CAPTIVITY, AND HAVE COMPASSION ON THEE,.... Return them from their captivity, or bring them out of it, both in a temporal and spiritual sense; free them from their present exile, and deliver them from the bondage of sin, Satan, and the law; and all this as the effect of his grace and mercy towards them, and compassion on them; see Jeremiah 30:18; The Targum of Jonathan is, "his Word shall receive with good will your repentance;'' it being cordial and unfeigned, and fruits meet for it brought forth: AND WILL RETURN AND GATHER THEE FROM ALL THE NATIONS WHITHER THE LORD THY GOD SCATTERED THEE; or, "will again gather thee" k; as he had gathered them out of all places where they had been scattered, on their return from the Babylonish captivity; so will he again gather them from all the nations of the earth,

TURN THY CAPTIVITY The Palestinian Covenant gives the conditions under which Israel entered the land of promise. It is important to see that the nation has never as yet taken the land under the unconditional Abrahamic Covenant, nor has it ever possessed the whole land (Compare (Genesis 15:18); (Numbers 34:1). The Palestinian Covenant is in seven parts. (1) Dispersion for disobedience, (Deuteronomy 30:1); (Deuteronomy 28:63). (_ See Scofield) - (Genesis 15:18) _ (2) The future re

26. THE DISPERSION, THE RETURN AND THE FINAL APPEAL CHAPTER 30 _ 1. The message of hope (Deuteronomy 30:1)_ 2. The final appeal (Deuteronomy 30:11) These things, which Moses spoke into the ears of the people were to come to pass. And they have been fulfilled. The people Israel are scattered among all the nations, and yet they have not been assimilated by the nations. They are kept as a separate people. Connected with the prediction of their dispersion is the message of hope, the prophecy relating to their return. The Lord promises, that if they return unto Him and obey His voice, that He will return unto them. “Then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD

DEUTERONOMY 30:1 seems like an expansion of Deuteronomy 4:29, and sums up the promises of D, expressing them from the standpoint of the Exile. Deuteronomy 30:1. the blessing and the curse: referring to Deuteronomy 28. Deuteronomy 30:3. turn thy captivity: render, restore thy fortunes (Job 42:10). Deuteronomy 30:6. circumcise thy heart:...

TURN THY CAPTIVITY. Figure of speech _Paronomasia._ Hebrew veshab. _eth-shebuthka._ Compare Amos 9:14; Amos 9:15.Jeremiah 30:3. Idiom for relief from any trouble. Compare Job 42:10. NATIONS. peoples....