Deuteronomy 4:34 “Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation…”

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?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

World English Bible

Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

American Standard Version

Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

Geneva Bible 1599

Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from among nations, by tentations, by signes, and by wonders, and by warre, and by a mightie hand, and by a stretched out arme, and by great feare, according vnto all that the Lord your God did vnto you in Egypt before your eyes?

Darby Translation

Or hath God essayed to come to take him a nation from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a powerful hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

Young's Literal Translation

Or hath God tried to go in to take to Himself, a nation from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors — according to all that Jehovah your God hath done to you, in Egypt, before your eyes?

Bible in Basic English

Has God ever before taken a nation for himself from out of another nation, by punishments and signs and wonders, by war and by a strong hand and a stretched-out arm and great acts of wonder and fear, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes?

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Cross references

“take him”

Exodus 3:17–20 Exodus 3:10 Exodus 1:9

Exodus 3:17–20 · BSB

And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’

Exodus 3:10 · BSB

Therefore, go! I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring My people the Israelites out of Egypt.”

Exodus 1:9 · BSB

“Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us.

“temptations”

Deuteronomy 7:19 Exodus 10:7 Deuteronomy 29:3 Exodus 9:20 Exodus 9:21

Deuteronomy 7:19 · BSB

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.

Exodus 10:7 · BSB

Pharaoh’s officials asked him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt lies in ruins?”

Deuteronomy 29:3 · BSB

You saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders.

Exodus 9:20 · BSB

Those among Pharaoh’s officials who feared the word of the LORD hurried to bring their servants and livestock to shelter,

Exodus 9:21 · BSB

but those who disregarded the word of the LORD left their servants and livestock in the field.

“by signs”

Psalm 78:48–53 Exodus 7:3 Psalm 78:12

Psalm 78:48–53 · BSB

He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.

Exodus 7:3 · BSB

But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I will multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,

Psalm 78:12 · BSB

He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.

“by a mighty”

Deuteronomy 5:15 Exodus 6:6 Deuteronomy 6:21 Exodus 13:3 1 Peter 5:6 Deuteronomy 7:8

Deuteronomy 5:15 · BSB

Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day…

Exodus 6:6 · BSB

Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment…

Deuteronomy 6:21 · BSB

then you are to tell him, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Exodus 13:3 · BSB

So Moses told the people, “Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His hand. And nothing leavened shall be eaten.

1 Peter 5:6 · BSB

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, so that in due time He may exalt you.

Deuteronomy 7:8 · BSB

But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

“and by great”

Deuteronomy 26:8 Deuteronomy 34:12 Exodus 12:30–33

Deuteronomy 26:8 · BSB

Then the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror, signs, and wonders.

Deuteronomy 34:12 · BSB

and no prophet who performed all the mighty acts of power and awesome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

Exodus 12:30–33 · BSB

During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.

Also

Jeremiah 32:21

Jeremiah 32:21 · BSB

You brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great terror.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

33Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?

35You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.

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