Deuteronomy 7:19

the great trials that you saw, the signs and wonders, and the mighty hand and outstretched arm by which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — Moses addresses Israel on the plains of Moab, preparing them to enter Canaan. He recalls the Exodus to counter their fear of the nations they will face.

The words — מַסּוֹת (ma.Sot) = trials, and אֹתוֹת (o.Tot) = signs. These terms denote the observable acts of divine intervention that accompanied the deliverance from Egypt.

The thread — The same sequence of trials, signs, and wonders appears in Deuteronomy 4:34, Nehemiah 9:10, and Joshua 3:10. Each passage uses the motif to anchor Israel's confidence in God's historical pattern of intervention.

Why it lands — The text commands the reader to treat past deliverance as evidence of future action. It requires a shift from fear to reliance on the same power that previously acted.

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The Hebrew words

הַמַּסֹּ֨תha./ma.Sotthe/ trials הַגְּדֹלֹ֜תha./ge.do.Lot<the>/ great אֲשֶׁר־'a.Sher-which רָא֣וּra.'Uthey saw עֵינֶ֗יךָ'ei.Nei./khaeyes/ your וְהָאֹתֹ֤תve./ha./'o.Totand/ the/ signs וְהַמֹּֽפְתִים֙ve./ha./mo.fe.Timand/ the/ wonders וְהַיָּ֤דve./hai./Yadand/ the/ hand הַחֲזָקָה֙ha./cha.za.Kah<the>/ mighty וְהַזְּרֹ֣עַve./ha./ze.Ro.a'and/ the/ arm הַנְּטוּיָ֔הha./ne.tu.Yah<the>/ outstretched אֲשֶׁ֥ר'a.Sherwhich הוֹצִֽאֲךָ֖ho.tzi.'a./Khahe brought out/ you יְהוָ֣הYah.wehYahweh אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ'e.lo.Hei./khaGod/ your כֵּֽן־ken-thus יַעֲשֶׂ֞הya.'a.Sehhe will do יְהוָ֤הYah.wehYahweh אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙'e.lo.Hei./khaGod/ your לְכָל־le./kholto/ all הָ֣עַמִּ֔יםha./'a.Mimthe/ peoples אֲשֶׁר־'a.Sher-which אַתָּ֥ה'a.Tahyou יָרֵ֖אya.Re'[are] afraid מִפְּנֵיהֶֽם׃mi./pe.nei./Hemof/ <before>/ them

King James Version

The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.

Cross-references

Deuteronomy 4:34 Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
Nehemiah 9:10 You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the people of his land, for You knew they had acted with arrogance against our fathers. You made a name for Yourself that endures to this day.
Joshua 3:10 He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
Jeremiah 32:20 You performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and You do so to this very day, both in Israel and among all mankind. And You have made a name for Yourself, as is the case to this day.
Deuteronomy 11:2 Know this day that it is not your children who have known and seen the discipline of the LORD your God: His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm;
Deuteronomy 29:3 You saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders.
Ezekiel 20:6 On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.