[[Deut-32]] Prev: [[Prophecies in Deut-31]] | Next: [[Prophecies in Deut-33]] --- ### But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation. They moved him to jealousy with strange gods... They sacrificed to demons, not God... *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: Moses predicts that after Israel enters the Promised Land and achieves prosperity, the nation will become complacent, abandon God, and turn to the worship of foreign idols and demons. *Historical context*: Theologians and historians point to the period of the Israelite monarchy, particularly from the reign of Solomon through the divided kingdom, as the realization of this apostasy. Historical records in 1 and 2 Kings describe the proliferation of high places and the worship of Baal and Asherah, leading directly to the national decline predicted here. *Related to*: ### They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: God declares that as Israel provoked Him with 'non-gods' (idols), He will provoke Israel to jealousy by showing favor to a 'non-people' or a 'foolish nation.' *Historical context*: The Apostle Paul explicitly identifies this as a prophecy of the inclusion of the Gentiles in God's plan of salvation ([[Rom-10#v19|Romans 10:19]]). Historically, it is also seen as being fulfilled when God used pagan nations like the Assyrians and Babylonians—whom Israel considered 'foolish' or 'nothing'—to conquer and discipline them. *Related to*: ### I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men; were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy... *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: God predicts the scattering of the Israelite people among the nations as a punishment for their covenant unfaithfulness, though He notes He will preserve a remnant to prevent His enemies from claiming credit for their destruction. *Historical context*: This was fulfilled through the Assyrian captivity (722 BC), the Babylonian exile (586 BC), and the Roman dispersion (AD 70). Despite these mass deportations and the 'Ten Lost Tribes' of the north, the Jewish people maintained a distinct identity, fulfilling the secondary part of the prophecy that their memory would not completely cease. *Related to*: ### Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: The song concludes with a prediction that the Gentile nations will eventually join with Israel in rejoicing and worshiping God, following a period of divine judgment and atonement. *Historical context*: In [[Rom-15#v10|Romans 15:10]], Paul quotes the Septuagint version of this verse ('Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people') as scriptural proof that the Gospel was intended to bring Gentiles and Jews together in a single body of believers. Christian theology views the global spread of Christianity as the fulfillment of this call for nations to rejoice with God's people. *Related to*: ### Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo... Die on the mountain where you go up... For you shall see the land from a distance; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: God tells Moses that he will ascend Mount Nebo to view the Promised Land but will die there without entering it, as a consequence of his actions at Meribah. *Historical context*: This is fulfilled in the final chapter of the Pentateuch, [[Deut-34#v1|Deuteronomy 34:1]]-5, which records Moses climbing Mount Nebo, viewing the land of Canaan, and dying there 'according to the word of the Lord.' He was buried in an unmarked grave in Moab. *Related to*: --- #ai_prophecy