Deuteronomy 32:12
So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Deuteronomy 32:12 in other translations
| BSB | The LORD alone led him, and no foreign god was with him. |
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| WEB | The LORD alone led him. There was no foreign god with him. |
| ASV | Jehovah alone did lead him, And there was no foreign god with him. |
| YLT | Jehovah alone doth lead him, And there is no strange god with him. |
| DARBY | So Jehovah alone did lead him, And no strangegod was with him. |
| BBE | So the Lord only was his guide, no other god was with him. |
| Webster | So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange God with him. |
What does Deuteronomy 32:12 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:7-14
Moses gives particular instances of God's kindness and concern for them. The eagle's care for her young is a beautiful emblem of Christ's love, who came between Divine justice and our guilty souls, and bare our sins in his own body on the tree. And by the preached gospel, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, He stirs up and prevails upon sinners to leave Satan's bondage. In ver. #(13-14), are emblems of the…
Deuteronomy 32:12 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 32:12
- Isaiah 46:4
And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
- Psalms 78:52-53
But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
- Isaiah 44:7-8
And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them. Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
- Deuteronomy 1:31
And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.
- Isaiah 43:11-12
I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour. I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God.
- Psalms 136:16
To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever.
- Psalms 78:14
In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
- Isaiah 63:9-13
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them. Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him? That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name? …
- Nehemiah 9:12
Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.
- Deuteronomy 32:39
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
- Psalms 27:11
Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.
- Psalms 80:1
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim–Eduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
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Context
- Deuteronomy 32:11
As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
- Deuteronomy 32:12
So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
- Deuteronomy 32:13
He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
Deuteronomy 32:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Jehová solo le guió, que no hubo con él dios ajeno. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | L’ Éternel seul l’a conduit, et il n’y a point eu avec lui de ✶dieu étranger. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | So leitete ihn Jehova allein, und kein fremder Gott war mit ihm. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Dominus solus dux ejus fuit, et non erat cum eo deus alienus: |