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Deuteronomy 32:23

in Deuteronomy 32

I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:

KJV

I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

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This verse in Deuteronomy 32

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Clement of Alexandria

The Instructor Book 1 · Written before 215.

The Divinity is not angry, as some suppose, but when he makes so many threats he is only making an appeal and showing humankind the things that are to be accomplished. Such a procedure is surely good, for it instills fear to keep us away from sin.

This site's exposition

For a fire is kindled in mine anger

on Deuteronomy 32:22-23

The word rendered hell here is sheol, the place of the dead, and the fire is said to burn to its lowest part, so what is described has no floor under it. Chapter 28 gave these same judgments as the consequences of a broken covenant, and the song gives them as the act of a person who is angry. Arrows spent upon them makes God the archer, and verse 42 comes back to that image at the end.

The words behind it

6 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • אַסְפֶּ֥הI will catch up

    ʾaspehH5595 →

  • עָלֵ֖ימוֹon them

    ʾaleimovH5921 →5755 times

  • רָע֑וֹתcalamities

    raotH7451 →662 times

  • חִצַּ֖יarrows my

    chitzaiH2671 →

  • אֲכַלֶּה־I will use up

    ʾakhaleh-H3615 →208 times

  • בָּֽם׃on <the> them

    bam

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Psalms 144:6Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.6 worksEzekiel 5:16When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.5 worksDeuteronomy 4:35You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.5 worksDeuteronomy 32:42I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh—the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”5 works2 Samuel 22:15He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.5 worksIsaiah 24:17–18Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth.4 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Psalms 7:12–13If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.4 worksPsalms 64:7But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.4 worksLeviticus 26:24then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.3 worksEzekiel 14:21For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?3 worksLamentations 3:13He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.3 worksDeuteronomy 28:15If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:3 worksNumbers 24:8God brought him out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox, to devour hostile nations and crush their bones, to pierce them with arrows.3 worksPsalms 18:14He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.3 worksHabakkuk 3:9You brandished Your bow; You called for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers.3 worksMatthew 24:7–8Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.2 worksDeuteronomy 29:21and single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.2 worksJeremiah 15:2–3If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those destined for captivity, to captivity.’2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 14:21

    For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 14:13

      “Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Ezekiel 33:27

      Tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, those in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I will give to be…

    • Ezekiel 5:17

      I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have…

    • Ezekiel 14:17

      Or if I bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through it,’ so that I cut off from it both man and beast,

    • Ezekiel 14:15

      Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts,

  • Through

    Ezekiel 5:16

    When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 4:16

      Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water…

    • Deuteronomy 32:23–24

      I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.

  • Through

    Leviticus 26:24

    then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 18:26

      to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 32 →

This page draws on Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor Book 1; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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