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Deuteronomy 32:32 Cross-References
Explore 8 cross-references for Deuteronomy 32:32 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Deuteronomy chapter 32 verse 32 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: of the vine: or, worse than the vine”
Deuteronomy 32:32 (KJV)
Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:32
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah—Moses shifts to agricultural metaphor, indicting pagan nations' moral corruption. The phrase ki-mi-gefen Sedom gafnam (כִּי־מִגֶּפֶן סְדֹם גַּפְנָם, 'for from vine of Sodom their vine') links enemy nations to Sodom's notorious wickedness (Genesis 19). Gefen (גֶּפֶן, 'vine') often symbolizes a people or nation—Israel is God's vine (Isaiah 5:1-7; Psalm 80:8), but here pagan nations are Sodom's vine, producing corrupt fruit from corrupt root.The imagery intensifies: their grapes are grapes of gall (anvei-rosh anavemo, עִנְּבֵי־...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Deuteronomy 32:32
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“or woman”
“you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God”
“who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters”
“wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?”
“that I have not done in it? Why”
“That was overthrown as in a moment”
“on the day of judgment”
“and many be defiled by it;”