Other Nations Learning About God Through God’s Dealings With Israel


Deuteronomy 4:5-8 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it. Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.” For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as the Lord our God is whenever we call on him? What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you today?

Deuteronomy 29:24-26 Even all the nations will say, “Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?” Then men will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know, and that he had not given to them.

Jeremiah 22:8-9 Many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has the Lord done thus to this great city? Then they shall answer, Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.

Zechariah 8:20-23 The Lord of Armies says: “Many peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come; and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, ‘Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of the Lord, and to seek the Lord of Armies. I will go also.’ Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the Lord of Armies in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of the Lord.” The Lord of Armies says: “In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’ ”

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