Deuteronomy • Chapter 32 (52 verses)
Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascri... Mentions: Adam , Jacob/Israel , Moses , Nun (or Non ), Moab , Bashan , Sodom , Gomorrah , Jordan .
Old Testament • 34 Chapters
Deuteronomy (Old Testament, 34 chapters). Key figures: Moses , Jacob/Israel , Laban , Moab , Abram/Abraham , Isaac . Key places: Jordan , Paran , Tophel , Laban , Hazeroth , Dizahab . Opens with: "These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between P..."
father, forefather, patriarch
Father, ancestor, founder of clan; God as Father of Israel ('Is not He your Father, who bought you?', Deuteronomy 32:6).
Derivation: Primitive word.
to judge, plead cause, contend, govern
To act as judge, champion the cause of the oppressed, vindicate the helpless ('The LORD will judge His people', Deuteronomy 32:36).
Derivation: Primitive root.
vengeance, vindication, retributive justice
Vengeance, retributive justice; exclusive divine prerogative to right moral wrongs and vindicate oppressed saints ('Vengeance is Mine, I will repay', Deuteronomy 32:35).
Derivation: From נָקַם (H5358) to avenge.
rock, cliff, boulder, fortress
Massive boulder, cliff; paramount metaphor for divine unchangeableness, refuge, and strength ('The Rock, His work is perfect', Deuteronomy 32:4).
Derivation: From צוּר (H6696) to bind, besiege.
Hittite Vassal Treaties, Neo-Assyrian Parallels, and the Covenant Lawsuit (Rib)
Monumental archaeological and historical consensus (established by George Mendenhall, Kenneth Kitchen, Meredith Kline) that the literary structure of the Mosaic Covenant in Exodus and particularly Deuteronomy mirrors Late Bronze Age (2nd millennium BC) Hittite Vassal Treaties rather than 1st millennium Neo-Assyrian treaties.
2 Chronicles • Chapter 32 (33 verses)
After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah , and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself. And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jer... Mentions: Judah , Hezekiah , David , Jacob/Israel , Jeshaiah ( Isaiah ), Assyria , Jerusalem , Millo , Lachish , Gihon 2 .
Deuteronomy • Chapter 1 (46 verses)
These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran , and Tophel , and Laban , and Hazeroth , and Dizahab . (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh –barn... Mentions: Moses , Jacob/Israel , Laban , Moab , Abram/Abraham , Jordan , Paran , Tophel , Hazeroth .
Deuteronomy • Chapter 2 (37 verses)
Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the Lord spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days. And the Lord spake unto me, saying, Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. Mentions: Esau ( Edom ), Moab , Moabites , Lot , Jacob/Israel , Seir , Esau, Elath , Zered .
Deuteronomy • Chapter 3 (29 verses)
Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan : and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei . And the Lord said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as... Mentions: Ammon , Manasseh , Jair , Jacob/Israel , Joshua , Bashan, Edrei , Heshbon , Argob , Jordan .
Deuteronomy • Chapter 4 (49 verses)
Now therefore hearken, O Israel , unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you. Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye dimin... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Baal , Moses , Horeb , Egypt , Jordan , Bezer .
Deuteronomy • Chapter 5 (33 verses)
And Moses called all Israel , and said unto them, Hear, O Israel , the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them. The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb . The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but... Mentions: Moses , Jacob/Israel, Horeb , Egypt .
Deuteronomy • Chapter 6 (25 verses)
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Abram/Abraham , Isaac , Egypt , Massah .
Deuteronomy • Chapter 7 (26 verses)
When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greate... Mentions: Egypt .
Deuteronomy • Chapter 8 (20 verses)
All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers. And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wildernes... Mentions: Egypt .
Deuteronomy • Chapter 9 (29 verses)
Hear, O Israel : Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven, A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand befo... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Abram/Abraham , Isaac , Aaron , Jordan , Egypt , Horeb , Taberah , Massah .
Deuteronomy • Chapter 10 (22 verses)
At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. A... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Aaron , Eleazar , Levi , Beeroth , Moserah , Gudgodah , Jotbathah , Egypt .
Deuteronomy • Chapter 11 (32 verses)
Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway. And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the Lord your God, his gre... Mentions: Eliab , Reuben , Jacob/Israel , Egypt , Lebanon , Euphrates , Jordan , Gilgal 1 .
Deuteronomy • Chapter 12 (32 verses)
These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth. Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their ... Mentions: Jordan .
Deuteronomy • Chapter 13 (18 verses)
If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto t... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Egypt .
Deuteronomy • Chapter 14 (29 verses)
Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon ...
Deuteronomy • Chapter 15 (23 verses)
At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the Lord's release. Of a foreig... Mentions: Egypt .
Deuteronomy • Chapter 16 (22 verses)
Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the Lord thy God: for in the month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the Lord thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the Lord sh... Mentions: Egypt .
Deuteronomy • Chapter 17 (20 verses)
Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the Lord thy God. If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wr... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Egypt .