New American Standard Bible 2020
Deuteronomy 30:2
2and you 1return to the Lord your God and 2obey Him 3with all your heart and soul in accordance with everything that I am commanding you today, you and your sons,
Deuteronomy 30:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
- New International Version (NIV)and when you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today,
- English Standard Version (ESV)and return to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul,
- New King James Version (NKJV)and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul,
Context of Deuteronomy 30:2
1“So it will be when all of these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have placed before you, and you call them to mind in all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you, and you return to the Lord your God and obey Him with all your heart and soul in accordance with everything that I am commanding you today, you and your sons, 3then the Lord your God will restore you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you. 4If any of your scattered countrymen are at the ends of the earth, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you back.
Read all of Deuteronomy 30Deuteronomy 30:2 word by word
וְשַׁבְתָּ֞ עַד־יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֣ בְקֹל֔וֹ כְּכֹ֛ל אֲשֶׁר־אָנֹכִ֥י מְצַוְּךָ֖ הַיּ֑וֹם אַתָּ֣ה וּבָנֶ֔יךָ בְּכָל־לְבָבְךָ֖ וּבְכָל־נַפְשֶֽׁךָ׃Read the interlinear
- returnשׁוּבshûb · to return: returnH7725
- to the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
- your Godאֱלֹהִים'ĕlôhîym · GodH430
- obeyשָׁמַעshâma‛ · to hear: obeyH8085
- obeyקוֹלqôl qôl · voiceH6963
- with allכֹּלkôl kôl · allH3605
- your heartלֵבָבlêbâb · heartH3824
- and soulנֶ֫פֶשׁnephesh · soulH5315
- that I am commandingצָוָהtsâvâh · to commandH6680
- you todayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
- you and your sonsבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
Cross-references for Deuteronomy 30:2
- Deuteronomy 4:28There you will serve gods, the work of human hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear, nor eat nor smell anything.
- Nehemiah 1:9but if you return to Me and keep My commandments and do them, though those of you who have been scattered were in the most remote part of the heavens, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place where I have chosen to have My name dwell.’
- Isaiah 55:6Seek the Lord while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near.
- Lamentations 3:32For if He causes grief, Then He will have compassion In proportion to His abundant mercy.
- Hosea 3:5Afterward the sons of Israel will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come trembling to the Lord and to His goodness in the last days.
- Hosea 6:1“Come, let’s return to the Lord. For He has torn us, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bandage us.
- Hosea 14:1Return, Israel, to the Lord your God, For you have stumbled because of your wrongdoing.
- Joel 2:12“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “Return to Me with all your heart, And with fasting, weeping, and mourning;
- Zechariah 12:10“And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of pleading, so that they will look at Me whom they pierced; and they will mourn for Him, like one mourning for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.
- 2 Corinthians 3:16but whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
- 1 John 1:9If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous, so that He will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
- Deuteronomy 6:5And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
- Deuteronomy 13:3you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God is testing you to find out whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
- 1 Chronicles 29:9Then the people rejoiced because they had offered so willingly, for they made their offering to the Lord wholeheartedly, and King David also rejoiced greatly.
- Psalms 41:12As for me, You uphold me in my integrity, And You place me in Your presence forever.
- Psalms 119:80May my heart be blameless in Your statutes, So that I will not be ashamed.
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 30:2
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-10Verses 1-10 The rejection of Israel and the desolation of the promised inheritance were not to be the end of God‘s dispensations. The closing words of the address therefore are words of comfort and promise. Compare marginal reference and Deuteronomy 4:29 ff; 1 Kings 8:46-50. The chastisements of God would lead the nation to repent, and thereupon God would again bless them. Deuteronomy 30:3 Will turn thy captivity - Will change or put an end to thy state…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-3with all your heart and all your soul: These words reflect the teaching found in the Shema (Israel’s great statement of covenant faith and commitment). The Shema calls Israel to love the Lord fully and faithfully (compare 6:4). To receive God’s forgiveness and return to the land, the people had to obey the covenant. Obedience was required before restoration could take place.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-101-10. when all these things are come upon thee, ... and thou shalt return ... then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity--The hopes of the Hebrew people are ardently directed to this promise, and they confidently expect that God, commiserating their forlorn and fallen condition, will yet rescue them from all the evils of their long dispersion. They do not consider the promise as fulfilled by their restoration from the captivity in Babylon, for Israel…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 30
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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