What one nation on the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 23. A name. So that all might praise God, for the favours which he had bestowed upon his people, ( Bible.) and admire his power and glory.—Gods, whom thou didst cast out of Chanaan. Par. Calmet.—From, is not expressed in the Vulg. or Hebrew though Prot. also supply it. Bible.—Some explain Elohim, “gods,” of the chief men of the Hebrew nation. The power of the idols was overthrown; (Numbers 33:4,) and the Israelites were rescued both from oppression, and from the service of false gods. Ezekiel 16. Calmet.—Adonai is often substituted for Jehova; as appears from 1 Chronicles 17:21, 22. Kennicott.