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Deuteronomy 29:24

in Deuteronomy 29

So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

KJV

Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

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This verse in Deuteronomy 29

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Then the generation to come

on Deuteronomy 29:22-24

The scene jumps to a ruined land and two sets of onlookers, the children to come and a foreigner from far away. The question of verse 24 is asked again at 1 Kings 9:8 and Jeremiah 22:8, over the temple and the city.

This site's exposition

Why has the LORD done

Henry puts the weight of the question on this land, the good land flowing with milk and honey where God was known and worshipped. He sets beside it Amos 3:2, where the LORD punishes Israel as the one family He had known. Nearness brought the heavier judgment.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Even all nations shall say,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

A thousand pities that such a good land as this should be made desolate, but this is not all; it is this holy land, the land of Israel, a people in covenant with God; it is Immanuel's land, a land where God was known and worshipped, and yet thus wasted. It is no new thing for God to bring desolating judgments upon a people that in profession are near to him, Amos iii.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

It was of the greatest consequence to impress all with the strong and abiding conviction, that while the covenant of grace had special blessings belonging to it, it at the same time had curses in reserve for transgressors, the infliction of which would be as certain, as lasting and severe. This was the advantage contemplated in the law being rehearsed a second time.

The words behind it

15 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.

  • וְאָֽמְרוּ֙and they will say

    veameruH559 →5305 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַגּוֹיִ֔םthe nations

    hagoyimH1471 →561 times

  • עַל־concerning

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • מֶ֨הwhat?

    mehH4100 →752 times

  • עָשָׂ֧הhas he done

    ʾasahH6213 →2628 times

  • יְהוָ֛הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • כָּ֖כָהthus

    kakhahH3602 →

  • לָאָ֣רֶץto the land

    laaretzH776 →2504 times

  • הַזֹּ֑את<the> this

    hazotH2063 →603 times

  • מֶ֥הwhy?

    mehH4100 →752 times

  • חֳרִ֛י[is] [the] heat of

    choriH2750 →

  • הָאַ֥ףthe anger

    haafH639 →276 times

  • הַגָּד֖וֹל<the> great

    hagadolH1419 →526 times

  • הַזֶּֽה׃<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

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

Related verses

13 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.

Jeremiah 22:8–9And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?’5 works1 Kings 9:8–9And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’4 worksLamentations 2:15–17All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”2 worksLamentations 4:12The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.2 works2 Chronicles 7:21–22And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’2 worksRomans 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.2 works
The other 7 cross-references, with their words ▾
Ezekiel 14:23They will bring you consolation when you see their conduct and actions, and you will know that it was not without cause that I have done all these things within it,’ declares the Lord GOD.”2 works1 Samuel 4:3When the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why has the LORD brought defeat on us before the Philistines today? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Shiloh, so that it may go with us to save us from the hand of our enemies.”2 worksExodus 11:8And all these officials of yours will come and bow before me, saying, ‘Go, you and all the people who follow you!’ After that, I will depart.” And hot with anger, Moses left Pharaoh’s presence.2 worksEzekiel 22:4you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.2 worksEzekiel 32:10I will cause many peoples to be appalled over you, and their kings will shudder in horror because of you when I brandish My sword before them. On the day of your downfall each of them will tremble every moment for his life.’2 worksJudges 21:3“Why, O LORD God of Israel,” they cried out, “has this happened in Israel? Today in Israel one tribe is missing!”2 worksJudges 6:13“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”2 works

The walk

4 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

    Lamentations 4:12

    The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 48:4–6

      For behold, the kings assembled; they all advanced together.

    • Deuteronomy 29:24–28

      So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’

    • Jeremiah 21:13

      Behold, I am against you who dwell above the valley, atop the rocky plateau—declares the LORD—you who say, “Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?”

    • 1 Kings 9:8–9

      And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land…

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 29 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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