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Deuteronomy 10:17

Deuteronomy 10:17
For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

For the Lord your God is God of gods,.... Of angels and civil magistrates, who are sometimes so called: these are his creatures, act for him and under him, and are accountable to him:

the Lord of…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Deuteronomy 10:12-22

Here is a most pathetic exhortation to obedience, inferred from the premises, and urged with very powerful arguments and a great deal of persuasive rhetoric. Moses brings it in like an orator, with an…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

God of gods, and Lord of lords Heb. idiom for the highest God and Lord (cp. Deu 10:10, heaven of heavens).

the great God, the mighty, and the terrible The Heb. can also mean, as in A.V., agreat God,…