Deuteronomy 33:29

Moses pronounces Israel happy and unique, a people saved by Yahweh their shield and sword, triumphant over their foes. The blessing ends with the joy of being God's redeemed people.

Cross-references · 29

• Isa 45:17Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
• Isa 12:2Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
• Deut 4:7–8For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
• Ps 115:9–11Israel, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and their shield.
• 2 Sam 7:23What one nation in 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?
• Gen 15:1After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
• Num 23:20–24Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.
• 2 Sam 22:45The foreigners will submit themselves to me. As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me.
• Ps 84:11For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
• Isa 34:5–6For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment.
• Ps 18:44As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
• Ps 66:3Tell God, “How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.
• Ps 144:15Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.
• Deut 32:13He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock;
• Judg 7:20The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, “The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon!”
• Hab 3:19Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.
• Ps 33:20Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.
• Ps 7:12If a man doesn’t relent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.
• Num 24:5How goodly are your tents, Jacob, and your tents, Israel!
• Ps 33:12Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
• Rev 1:16He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.
• Josh 10:24–25When they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, “Come near. Put your feet on the necks of these kings.” They came near, and put their feet on their necks.
• Isa 27:1In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
• 1 Tim 4:10For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
• Ps 45:3Strap your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendor and your majesty.
• Rev 19:21The rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword which came out of his mouth. All the birds were filled with their flesh.
• Jer 12:12Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of Yahweh devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land. No flesh has peace.
• Ps 81:15The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.
• Jer 47:6“‘You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you are quiet? Put yourself back into your scabbard; rest, and be still.’

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