Deuteronomy 32:15 BSB

Deuteronomy 32:15

But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

BSB

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ASV

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou art waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art become sleek; Then he forsook God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

KJV

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

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Commentary

2 voices

Clement of Rome

Clement's First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapters 3-4 (99)

Every kind of honour and happiness was bestowed upon you, and then was fulfilled that which is written, "My beloved ate and drank, and was enlarged and became fat, and kicked." [Deuteronomy 32:15] Hence flowed emulation and envy, strife and sedition, persecution and disorder, war and captivity. So the worthless rose up against the honoured, those of no reputation against such as were renowned, the foolish against the wise, the young against those advanced in years.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Jeshurun - ישרון the upright. This appellative is here put for Israel, and as it comes from ישר yashar, he was right, straight, may be intended to show that the people who once not only promised fair, but were really upright, walking in the paths of righteousness, should, in the time signified by the prophet, not only revolt from God, but actually fight against him; like a full fed horse, who not only will not bear the harness, but breaks away from his master, and endeavors to kick him as he struggles to get loose.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּשְׁמַ֤ן	vai.yish.Man	and he grew fat	H8080 →
יְשֻׁרוּן֙	ye.shu.Run	Jeshurun	H3484 →
וַיִּבְעָ֔ט	vai.yiv.'At	and he kicked	H1163 →
שָׁמַ֖נְתָּ	sha.Man.ta	you have grown fat	H8080 →
עָבִ֣יתָ	'a.Vi.ta	you have become bloated	H5666 →
כָּשִׂ֑יתָ	ka.Si.ta	you have become gorged	H3780 →
וַיִּטֹּשׁ֙	vai.yi.Tosh	and he abandoned	H5203 →
אֱל֣וֹהַ	'e.Lo.ha	God	H433 →
עָשָׂ֔הוּ	'a.Sa.hu	[who] he made him	H6213 →
וַיְנַבֵּ֖ל	vay.na.Bel	and he treated with contempt	H5034 →
צ֥וּר	tzur	[the] rock of	H6697 →
יְשֻׁעָתֽוֹ׃	ye.shu.'a.To	salvation his	H3444 →

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Where the connections lead

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Through
Acts 28:27
For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts,…
leads to
- Isaiah 6:10
  Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
Through
Deuteronomy 31:20
When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 6:10–12
  And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Hosea 13:6
  When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.
- Nehemiah 9:25–26
  They captured fortified cities and fertile land and took houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled; they grew fat…
- Exodus 3:8
  I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and…
Through
1 Samuel 2:29
Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all…
leads to
- Matthew 10:37
  Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
- 1 Samuel 2:13–17
  or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling
Through
Hosea 13:6
When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 32:13–15
  He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag,

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Where the connections lead

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06About Deuteronomy

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Deuteronomy