(For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
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Gill's Exposition
For the Lord thy God is a merciful God,.... In Christ, in whom he has proclaimed his name as such, of which Moses had a comfortable view, Exo 34:6 and therefore could attest it from his own knowledge…
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. Deu 4:34 Temptations - Compare Deu 7:18-19; Deu…
This most lively and excellent discourse is so entire, and the particulars of it are so often repeated, that we must take it altogether in the exposition of it, and endeavour to digest it into proper…
Cambridge Bible
a merciful God Cp. JE, Exo 34:6.
he will not fail thee Rather, will not let thee drop (Driver); will hold thee fast. Cp. Deu 31:6; Deu 31:8; Jos 1:5.
nor forget the covenant See on Deu 4:4.
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