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Deuteronomy 32:30

Deuteronomy 32:30 is verse 30 of Deuteronomy chapter 32, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?

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King James Version

How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?

World English Bible

How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?

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Deuteronomy 32:28–32 · Berean Standard Bible

28 Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.

29 If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.

30 How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?

31 For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies concede.

32 But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Leviticus 26:8

Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.

Joshua 23:10

One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised.

Judges 7:22

And when the three hundred rams’ horns sounded, the LORD set all the men in the camp against one another with their swords. The army fled to Beth-shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel-meholah near Tabbath.

Judges 7:23

Then the men of Israel were called out from Naphtali, Asher, and all Manasseh, and they pursued the Midianites.

1 Samuel 14:15

Then terror struck the Philistines in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. Even those in the outposts and raiding parties trembled. Indeed, the earth quaked and panic spread from God.

1 Samuel 14:16

Now when Saul’s watchmen at Gibeah in Benjamin looked and saw the troops melting away and scattering in every direction,

1 Samuel 14:17

Saul said to the troops who were with him, “Call the roll and see who has left us.” And when they had called the roll, they saw that Jonathan and his armor-bearer were not there.

2 Chronicles 24:24

Although the Aramean army had come with only a few men, the LORD delivered into their hand a very great army. Because Judah had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, judgment was executed on Joash.

Isaiah 30:17

A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee, until you are left alone like a pole on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill.

Judges 2:14

Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of those who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist.

Judges 3:8

Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram-naharaim, and the Israelites served him eight years.

Psalms 44:12

You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.

Isaiah 50:1

This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

Isaiah 52:3

For this is what the LORD says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”

Matthew 18:25

Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned.

Job 11:10

If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?

Job 16:11

God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.

Psalms 31:8

You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.

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