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 2:6“Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.
• Hos 6:1“Come, and let us return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
• Job 5:18For he wounds, and binds up. He injures, and his hands make whole.
• Isa 45:5I am Yahweh, and there is no one else. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not known me;
• Isa 45:22“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
• Isa 43:13Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”
• Isa 46:4Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.
• Ps 68:20God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
• Isa 45:18For Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am Yahweh; and there is no other.
• Isa 41:4Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”
• Rev 1:17–18When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,
• Ps 50:22“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
• Deut 4:35It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.
• 2 Kgs 5:7When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”
• Job 10:7Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
• Ps 102:27But you are the same. Your years will have no end.
• Rev 2:8“To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:
• Mic 5:8The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, among many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.
• Isa 48:12“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I am also the last.
• John 8:24I said therefore to you that you will 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 mantle, and they will be changed; but you are the same. Your years will not fail.”
• Rev 1:11saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

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