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Deuteronomy 30:5

in Deuteronomy 30

And the LORD your God will bring you into the land your fathers possessed, and you will take possession of it. He will cause you to prosper and multiply more than your fathers.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and Jehovah thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.

KJV

And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.

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This verse in Deuteronomy 30

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Will bring thee into the land - As this promise refers to a return from a captivity in which they had been scattered among all nations, consequently it is not the Babylonish captivity which is intended; and the repossession of their land must be different from that which was consequent on their return from Chaldea.

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.

This site's exposition

multiply more than your fathers

Jamieson, Fausset and Brown note that the return from Babylon left Israel fewer than its fathers, so they look beyond it. Henry holds the promise fulfilled when the LORD brought the people back into their land. Multiply more than the fathers is the measure.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The righteousness of faith set before them in the plainness and easiness of the commandment that was now given them,

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Note, Penitent sinners are not only delivered out of their misery, but restored to true happiness in the favour of God. The land they are brought into to possess it is , though not the same, yet in some respects better than that which our first father Adam possessed, and out of which he was expelled.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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

12 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.

  • וֶהֱבִֽיאֲךָ֞and he will bring you

    veheviakhaH935 →2568 times

  • יְהוָ֣הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָGod your

    ʾeloheikhaH430 →2601 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הָאָ֛רֶץthe land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • יָרְשׁ֥וּthey took possession of

    yareshuH3423 →231 times

  • אֲבֹתֶ֖יךָancestors your

    ʾavoteikhaH1 →1212 times

  • וִֽירִשְׁתָּ֑הּand you will take possession of it

    virishtahH3423 →231 times

  • וְהֵיטִֽבְךָ֥and he will do good to you

    veheitivkhaH3190 →117 times

  • וְהִרְבְּךָ֖and he will make great you

    vehirbekhaH7235 →227 times

  • מֵאֲבֹתֶֽיךָ׃more than ancestors your

    meavoteikhaH1 →1212 times

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

Related verses

1 in all, six open

The walk

5 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

    Jeremiah 29:14

    I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD.…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 36:1–38

      “And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say: O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD.

    • Jeremiah 30:3

      For behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will restore from captivity My people Israel and Judah, declares the LORD. I will restore them to the land that I gave to…

    • 1 Chronicles 28:9

      As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought.…

    • Romans 10:20

      And Isaiah boldly says: “I was found by those who did not seek Me; I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me.”

    • Micah 4:12

      But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD or understand His plan, for He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

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 30 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset and 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.

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