Deuteronomy 4:27

27 And Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left {few in number} among the nations {to where Yahweh will lead you}.

Deuteronomy 4:27 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 4:27

And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations
As they were by both captivities; the ten tribes were dispersed among the cities of the Medes, and the two tribes throughout the empire of Babylon:

and ye shall be left few in number among the Heathen, whither the Lord
shall lead you;
or be "men of number" ^F9, so few that they might be easily numbered; which intimates that it should be other wise with them than when in Egypt; there they were multiplied and increased the more they were afflicted, but in these captivities they should be greatly diminished.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 (rpom ytm) "viri numeri", Montanus, Drusius.

Deuteronomy 4:27 In-Context

25 "When you have had children and {grandchildren} and you have grown old in the land and you act corruptly and you make a divine image [of] the form of anything and you do evil in the eyes of Yahweh your God, [thus] provoking him to anger,

26 I call to witness against you today the heaven and the earth, that you will perish soon and completely from the land that you [are] crossing the Jordan into it to take possession of it; {you will not live long on it}, but you will be completely destroyed.

27 And Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left {few in number} among the nations {to where Yahweh will lead you}.

28 And you will there serve gods {made by human hands}, [of] wood and stone, [gods] that cannot see and cannot hear and cannot eat and cannot smell.

29 But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God and will find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "people of number," as opposed to people without number
• [b]. Literally "[he] will lead Yahweh you there"