New King James Version
Deuteronomy 4:37
37And because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them; and He brought you out of Egypt with His Presence, with His mighty power,
Deuteronomy 4:37 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
- New International Version (NIV)Because he loved your ancestors and chose their descendants after them, he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence and his great strength,
- English Standard Version (ESV)And because he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power,
- New Living Translation (NLT)Because he loved your ancestors, he chose to bless their descendants, and he personally brought you out of Egypt with a great display of power.
Context of Deuteronomy 4:37
35To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord Himself is God; there is none other besides Him. 36Out of heaven He let you hear His voice, that He might instruct you; on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire. And because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them; and He brought you out of Egypt with His Presence, with His mighty power, 38driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day. 39Therefore know this day, and consider it in your heart, that the Lord Himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.
Read all of Deuteronomy 4Deuteronomy 4:37 word by word
וְתַ֗חַת כִּ֤י אָהַב֙ אֶת־אֲבֹתֶ֔יךָ וַיִּבְחַ֥ר בְּזַרְע֖וֹ אַחֲרָ֑יו וַיּוֹצִֽאֲךָ֧ בְּפָנָ֛יו בְּכֹח֥וֹ הַגָּדֹ֖ל מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- And because he lovedאָהֵב'âhab 'âhêb · to love: loverH157
- thy fathersאָב'âb · fatherH1
- therefore he choseבָּחַרbâchar · to chooseH977
- their seedזֶ֫רַעzera‛ · seed: childrenH2233
- afterאַחַר'achar · afterH310
- them, and brought thee outיָצָאyâtsâ' · to come out: sendH3318
- in his sightפָּנֶהpânîym · faceH6440
- with his mightyגָּדוֹלgâdôl gâdôl · great: largeH1419
- powerכֹּחַkôach kôach · strengthH3581
- out of Egyptמִצְרַ֫יִםmitsrayim · EgyptH4714
Cross-references for Deuteronomy 4:37
- Deuteronomy 7:7The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples;
- Deuteronomy 9:5It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Deuteronomy 10:15The Lord delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day.
- Psalms 105:6O seed of Abraham His servant, You children of Jacob, His chosen ones!
- Isaiah 41:8“But you, Israel, are My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, The descendants of Abraham My friend.
- Jeremiah 31:1“At the same time,” says the Lord, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people.”
- Malachi 1:2“I have loved you,” says the Lord. “Yet you say, ‘In what way have You loved us?’ Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” Says the Lord. “Yet Jacob I have loved;
- Luke 1:72To perform the mercy promised to our fathers And to remember His holy covenant,
- Romans 9:5of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen.
- Exodus 13:3And Moses said to the people: “Remember this day in which you went out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out of this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.
- 2 Chronicles 16:9For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him. In this you have done foolishly; therefore from now on you shall have wars.”
- Psalms 32:8I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.
- Psalms 34:15The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, And His ears are open to their cry.
- Deuteronomy 4:34Or did God ever try to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
- Psalms 114:1When Israel went out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language,
- Psalms 136:10To Him who struck Egypt in their firstborn, For His mercy endures forever;
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 4:37
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 29-40Verses 29-40 Unwilling, as it might seem, to close his discourse with words of terror, Moses makes a last appeal to them in these verses in a different strain. Deuteronomy 4:34 Temptations - Compare Deuteronomy 7:18-19; Deuteronomy 29:2-3; not, “i. e.” the tribulations and persecutions undergone by the Israelites, out the plagues miraculously inflicted on the Egyptians. Deuteronomy 4:37 He chose their seed after them - literally, “his seed after him.”…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 24-40Verses 24-40 Moses urged the greatness, glory, and goodness of God. Did we consider what a God he is with whom we have to do, we should surely make conscience of our duty to him, and not dare to sin against him. Shall we forsake a merciful God, who will never forsake us, if we are faithful unto him? Whither can we go? Let us be held to our duty by the bonds of love, and prevailed with by the mercies of God to cleave to him. Moses urged God's authority…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-40Moses gave a long speech to the Israelites because of their recent failures and what he thought would happen in Canaan.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 14-4015. Take ... good heed ... for ye saw no manner of similitude--The extreme proneness of the Israelites to idolatry, from their position in the midst of surrounding nations already abandoned to its seductions, accounts for their attention being repeatedly drawn to the fact that God did not appear on Sinai in any visible form; and an earnest caution, founded on that remarkable circumstance, is given to beware, not only of making representations of false…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 4
- 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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