Deuteronomy 30:4
in Deuteronomy 30Even if you have been banished to the farthest horizon, He will gather you and return you from there.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
If any of thine outcasts be in the uttermost parts of heaven, from thence will Jehovah thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
KJV
If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
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This verse in Deuteronomy 30
Commentary
6 notes on this verseOne of the Chaldee paraphrasts applies this to the Messiah, explaining it thus: The word of the Lord shall gather you by the hand of Elias the great priest, and shall bring you by the hand of the king Messiah; for this was God's covenant with him, that he should restore the preserved of Israel, Isa. xlix.
This site's exposition
Even if you have been banished to the farthest horizon
on Deuteronomy 30:4-5
Nehemiah prays this promise back to God at Nehemiah 1:8-9. Verse 5 sets the return above the first entry, since God will make Israel “prosper and multiply more than your fathers”. Moses describes a second entry into the land to a people who have not yet made the first.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven,....
The righteousness of faith set before them in the plainness and easiness of the commandment that was now given them,
Undique ad cælos tantundem est viæ--From every place there is the same way to heaven. This promise Nehemiah pleads in his prayer for dispersed Israel, Neh. i. It is here promised, (1.) That God would have compassion upon them, as proper objects of his pity,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
They will be converted to the faith of Jesus Christ as their Messiah--a spiritual deliverer, and the effect of their conversion will be that they will return and obey the voice (the Gospel, the evangelical law) of the Lord.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אִם־ | ʾim- | if | H518 → | 1069 times |
| יִהְיֶ֥ה | yihyeh | he will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| נִֽדַּחֲךָ֖ | nidachakha | banished [one] your | H5080 → | 55 times |
| בִּקְצֵ֣ה | biktzeh | at [the] end of | H7097 → | 97 times |
| הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם | hashamayim | the heavens | H8064 → | 421 times |
| מִשָּׁ֗ם | misham | from there | H8033 → | 834 times |
| יְקַבֶּצְךָ֙ | yekabetzcha | he will gather you | H6908 → | 127 times |
| יְהוָ֣ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ | ʾeloheikha | God your | H430 → | 2601 times |
| וּמִשָּׁ֖ם | umisham | and from there | H8033 → | 834 times |
| יִקָּחֶֽךָ׃ | yikachecha | he will bring you | H3947 → | 966 times |
אִם־if
ʾim-H518 →1069 times
יִהְיֶ֥הhe will be
yihyehH1961 →3559 times
נִֽדַּחֲךָ֖banished [one] your
nidachakhaH5080 →55 times
בִּקְצֵ֣הat [the] end of
biktzehH7097 →97 times
הַשָּׁמָ֑יִםthe heavens
hashamayimH8064 →421 times
מִשָּׁ֗םfrom there
mishamH8033 →834 times
יְקַבֶּצְךָ֙he will gather you
yekabetzchaH6908 →127 times
יְהוָ֣הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָGod your
ʾeloheikhaH430 →2601 times
וּמִשָּׁ֖םand from there
umishamH8033 →834 times
יִקָּחֶֽךָ׃he will bring you
yikachechaH3947 →966 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Nehemiah 1:9but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to…
it leads to
- Jeremiah 29:11–14
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
- Deuteronomy 30:2–5
and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,
- Deuteronomy 4:29–31
But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Jeremiah 29:11–14
Through
Deuteronomy 28:64Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you…
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 4:27–28
Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
- Leviticus 26:33
But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.
- Nehemiah 1:8
Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,
- Deuteronomy 28:36
The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
- Jeremiah 16:13
So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you…
- Deuteronomy 4:27–28
Where this verse is studied
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About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.