What does Deuteronomy 32:5 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation."
Verse Deuteronomy 32:5. _THEIR SPOT_ IS _NOT_ THE SPOT _OF HIS CHILDREN_] This verse is variously translated and variously understood. _They are_ _corrupted, not his, children of pollution_. - KENNIC...
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) Deuteronomy 32...
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) 4. Their apostas...
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...
THEY HAVE, &C. The Nom., "generation", is put last by Figure of speech _Hyperbaton_ (App-6), for emphasis, in contrast with "the Rock" of Deuteronomy 32:4, which is there put first. Compare Deuteronom...
God's Faithfulness, Israel's Folly 4 The Rock outright is His working! Yea, all of His ways are Law, The God of troth, without treason, Righteous and upright is He. 5 His sons have dealt corrup...
_VER._ 5. _THEY HAVE CORRUPTED THEMSELVES,_ &C.— _Is there corruption in Him? no: but of his children the spot is theirs._ Dr. Waterland. Houbigant renders it: They are corrupt: they are not his child...
C. THE SONG OF MOSES (Deuteronomy 31:30 to Deuteronomy 32:47) The song is difficult to outline, but the main contents may be grouped as follows: INTRODUCTION Deuteronomy 31:30 to Deuteronomy 32:2 1...
_THEY HAVE CORRUPTED THEMSELVES, THEIR SPOT IS NOT THE SPOT OF HIS CHILDREN: THEY ARE A PERVERSE AND CROOKED GENERATION._ They have corrupted themselves - i:e., the Israelites, by their frequent laps...
32:5 spot. (e-12) Or 'blemish,' as Song of Solomon 4:7 ; Daniel 1:4 ....
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...
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 say. V2 My lessons w...
(5) — “He (Israel) hath destroyed himself. Their undutifulness,[5] that is their blot, [5] Literally, _they are no sons to him._ (Comp. Deuteronomy 32:20.) A froward and crooked generation!” These...
שִׁחֵ֥ת לֹ֛ו לֹ֖א בָּנָ֣יו מוּמָ֑ם דֹּ֥ור עִקֵּ֖שׁ וּ פְתַלְתֹּֽל׃...
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: THE LORD'S FAVOR UPON ISRAEL Deuteronomy 31:30; Deuteronomy 32:1 The song of Moses, like the fabled song of the swan, was his last and sweetest. It is probably the noblest ode in the wh...
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...
Filth, or idolatry. The fidelity of God is contrasted with the infidelity of his people, who deserve not to be called his children. The Septuagint, Chaldean, Syriac, and Arabic, seem to have read in a...
Alas! what a striking difference, when we look into our own nature, there is between our corruptions and the LORD'S purity. Observe, the charge is, not that GOD made man corrupt, for GOD made man upri...
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...
5._They have corrupted themselves. _Moses now inveighs unhesitatingly against the perfidy of the people, and gives loose to the most unmeasured upbraidings; for if God be just and true, then it was pl...
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...
THEY HAVE CORRUPTED THEMSELVES,.... This and what follows may seem to be the characters of the enemies of Christ, who lightly esteemed and rejected him, set in a contrast with him; who were not only c...
They have corrupted themselves, their spot [is] not [the spot] of his children: [they are] a perverse and crooked generation. Ver. 5. _Their spot is not the spot._] Saints also have their spots, but...
Deu. 32:5. "Their spot," etc. In all probability here is a reference had to those spots mentioned in Lev. 13, where are rules for the trials of spots, whether they were leprous spots or no. There are...
_They have corrupted themselves_ Notwithstanding that God hath fully displayed these excellences in his dealings with the Israelitish nation, yet how corrupt and ungrateful hath been their behaviour!...
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...
Israel's Position and Apostasy...
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 fro...
THEY HAVE CORRUPTED THEMSELVES: _ Heb._ he hath corrupted to himself THEIR SPOT IS NOT THE SPOT OF HIS CHILDREN: Or, that they are not his children, that is their blot...
3-6 "He is a Rock." This is the first time God is called so in Scripture. The expression denotes that the Divine power, faithfulness, and love, as revealed in Christ and the gospel, form a foundation...
THEY, i.e. the Israelites, as the following words manifest. CORRUPTED THEMSELVES: this phrase sometimes in Scripture notes sin, and sometimes destruction. And so the sense may be either, 1. Their wic...
"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 32:5 corrupted H7843 (H8765) children H1121 blemish H3971 perverse H6141 crooked H6618 generation H1755 They have corrupted themselves - Deuteronomy 4:16, Deuteronomy 31:29; Genesis 6:12;...
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,...
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...
_They have corrupted themselves._ MAN CORRUPTING HIS WAY If we consider what this people seemed once to be, and thought themselves to be, we may easily know how they corrupted themselves. If ye look...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 32:5 NO LONGER HIS CHILDREN. See note on 14:1–2. Compare Hosea 1:9. CROOKED AND TWISTED GENERATION. See Philippians 2:15. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagN...
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 r...
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...
2 Corinthians 11:3; Acts 7:51; Deuteronomy 31:29; Deuteronomy 4:16; Deuteronomy 9:24; Exodus 32:7; Genesis 6:12; Hosea 9:9; Isaiah 1:4; John 8:
They — The Israelites. Their spot — The wickedness with which they are stained, is not of his children — Plainly shews they are not his children, but the devil's. God's children have no such spot. Ind...