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 killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
• Hos 6:1Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
• Job 5:18For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
• Isa 45:5I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
• Isa 45:22Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
• Isa 43:13Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
• Isa 46:4And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
• Ps 68:20He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
• Isa 45:18For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
• Isa 41:4Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
• Rev 1:17–18And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
• Ps 50:22Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
• Deut 4:35Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
• 2 Kgs 5:7And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
• Job 10:7Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
• Ps 102:27But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
• Rev 2:8And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
• Mic 5:8And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.
• Isa 48:12Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
• John 8:24I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
• Heb 1:12And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
• Rev 1:11Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

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