Deuteronomy 32:39

God declares that He alone is God, who kills and makes alive, wounds and heals, and none can deliver from His hand. It matters because it is a foundational assertion of God's sole sovereignty over life and death.

Cross-references · 22

• 1 Sam 2:6The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
• Hos 6:1Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
• Job 5:18For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
• Isa 45:5I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God but Me. I will equip you for battle, though you have not known Me,
• Isa 45:22Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
• Isa 43:13Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”
• Isa 46:4Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.
• Ps 68:20Our God is a God of deliverance; the Lord GOD is our rescuer from death.
• Isa 45:18For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.
• Isa 41:4Who has performed this and carried it out, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD—the first and the last—I am He.”
• Rev 1:17–18When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last,
• Ps 50:22Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
• Deut 4:35You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.
• 2 Kgs 5:7When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a leper? Surely you can see that he is seeking a quarrel with me!”
• Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
• Ps 102:27But You remain the same, and Your years will never end.
• Rev 2:8To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of the First and the Last, who died and returned to life.
• Mic 5:8Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with no one to rescue them.
• Isa 48:12Listen to Me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I have called: I am He; I am the first, and I am the last.
• John 8:24That is why I told you that you would die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”
• Heb 1:12You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed; but You remain the same, and Your years will never end.”
• Rev 1:11saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

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