Deuteronomy 30:2-5

2 and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today,

3 then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes^[a] and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you.

4 Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the LORD your God will gather you and bring you back.

5 He will bring you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors.

Deuteronomy 30:2-5 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

• 1. S Deuteronomy 4:30; Nehemiah 1:9
• 2. Deuteronomy 4:29; Psalms 119:2
• 3. Psalms 14:7; Psalms 53:6; Psalms 85:1; Psalms 126:4; Jeremiah 30:18; Jeremiah 33:11; Ezekiel 16:53; Joel 3:1; Zephaniah 2:7
• 4. Deuteronomy 13:17
• 5. S Genesis 48:21; Psalms 147:2; Jeremiah 32:37; Ezekiel 34:13
• 6. S Genesis 11:4; Deuteronomy 4:27
• 7. Isaiah 11:11; Jeremiah 12:15; Jeremiah 16:15; Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 29:14; Jeremiah 48:47; Jeremiah 49:6
• 8. Psalms 19:6
• 9. Isaiah 17:6; Isaiah 24:13; Isaiah 27:12; Isaiah 40:11; Isaiah 49:5; Isaiah 56:8; Ezekiel 20:34,41; Ezekiel 34:13
• 10. Nehemiah 1:8-9; Isaiah 11:12; Isaiah 41:5; Isaiah 42:10; Isaiah 43:6; Isaiah 48:20; Isaiah 62:11; Jeremiah 31:8,10; Jeremiah 50:2
• 11. Jeremiah 29:14
• 12. S Deuteronomy 7:13

Footnotes

• [a] Or "will bring you back from captivity"