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Deuteronomy 29:28
The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today.’
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses addresses the Israelites on the plains of Moab, concluding his rehearsal of covenant blessings and curses that will unfold after they enter the land.
The words — The Hebrew verb וַיִּתְשֵׁם (va-yi-tshe-m) literally means "He plucked them up" or "uprooted them," standing alongside three cumulative terms for divine hostility: אַף (anger), חֵמָה (rage), and קֶצֶף (wrath).
The thread — This specific language of divine uprooting from a promised territory recurs in 2 Chronicles 7:20 and 1 Kings 14:15, where Yahweh similarly removes the people from the soil He granted them.
Why it lands — The verse records a factual displacement resulting from covenant breach, requiring the reader to acknowledge that the revealed law dictates the conditions for national survival and land tenure.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
Cross-references
- 2 Chronicles 7:20 then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.
- 1 Kings 14:15 For the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger.
- Psalms 52:5 Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
- Proverbs 2:22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
- Jeremiah 42:10 ‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you, for I will relent of the disaster I have brought upon you.
- Deuteronomy 6:24 And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God, that we may always be prosperous and preserved, as we are to this day.
- Deuteronomy 8:18 But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.
- Deuteronomy 28:25 The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 28:36 The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
- Deuteronomy 28:64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.