Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
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Gill's Exposition
Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation,.... As he now had done, namely, the nation of Israel out of the nation of the Egyptians; this he not only had assayed…
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
Or hath God assayed Rather, hath a god. The verb nissahis rendered in Deu 28:56 adventured. It is also used for the temptingor testingof Israel by God, Deu 8:2; Deu 8:16; Deu 13:3 (4) (also in E), or…
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