Deuteronomy 30:1-8

Restoration Promised

1 "So it shall be when all of these things have come upon you, 1the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind 2in all nations where * the LORD your God has banished you,
2 and you 3return to the LORD your God and obey * Him 4with all your heart and soul according to all that I command you today, you and your sons,
3 then the LORD your God will 5restore you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and 6will gather you again from all the peoples where * the LORD your God has 7scattered you.
4 "If your outcasts are at the ends of the earth, 8from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you back.
5 "9The LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will prosper you and 10multiply you more than your fathers.
6 "Moreover 11the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, 12to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
7 "13The LORD your God will inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.
8 "And you shall again obey * the LORD, and observe all His commandments which I command you today.

Deuteronomy 30:1-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 30

This chapter contains some gracious promises of the conversion of the Jews in the latter day, of their calling things to mind that have befallen them, of their repentance, and the circumcision of their hearts to love the Lord, of the return of them to their own land, and of the great increase of them, and of their enjoyment of plenty of good things, De 30:1-10; in it is an account of the Gospel, or word of faith, which at this time should be brought near to the Jews, and be received by them, De 30:11-14; and for the present Moses desires them to consider what he now set before them, and what would be the consequences of receiving or rejecting it, and so what it would be most proper for them to make choice of, De 30:15-20.

Cross References 13

  • 1. Deuteronomy 11:26; Deuteronomy 30:15, 19
  • 2. Leviticus 26:40-45; Deuteronomy 28:64; Deuteronomy 29:28; 1 Kings 8:47
  • 3. Deuteronomy 4:29, 30; Nehemiah 1:9
  • 4. Deuteronomy 4:29
  • 5. Genesis 28:15; Genesis 48:21; Psalms 126:1, 4; Jeremiah 29:14
  • 6. Psalms 147:2; Jeremiah 32:37; Ezekiel 34:13
  • 7. Deuteronomy 4:27
  • 8. Nehemiah 1:9; Isaiah 43:6; Isaiah 48:20; Isaiah 62:11
  • 9. Jeremiah 29:14; Jeremiah 30:3
  • 10. Deuteronomy 7:13; Deuteronomy 13:17
  • 11. Deuteronomy 10:16
  • 12. Deuteronomy 6:5
  • 13. Deuteronomy 7:15

Footnotes 8

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