Deuteronomy 32:12
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New International Version (©2011)
The LORD alone led him; no foreign god was with him.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The LORD alone guided them; they followed no foreign gods.

English Standard Version (©2001)
the LORD alone guided him, no foreign god was with him.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"The LORD alone guided him, And there was no foreign god with him.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The LORD alone led him, with no help from a foreign god.

International Standard Version (©2012)
the LORD alone guided him. There was no foreign god with him.

NET Bible (©2006)
The LORD alone was guiding him, no foreign god was with him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
so the LORD alone led his people. No foreign god was with him.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.

American King James Version
So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.

American Standard Version
Jehovah alone did lead him, And there was no foreign god with him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with him.

Darby Bible Translation
So Jehovah alone did lead him, And no strange łgod was with him.

English Revised Version
The LORD alone did lead him, And there was no strange god with him.

Webster's Bible Translation
So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange God with him.

World English Bible
Yahweh alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.

Young's Literal Translation
Jehovah alone doth lead him, And there is no strange god with him.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

32:7-14 Moses gives particular instances of God's kindness and concern for them. The eagle's care for her young is a beautiful emblem of Christ's love, who came between Divine justice and our guilty souls, and bare our sins in his own body on the tree. And by the preached gospel, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, He stirs up and prevails upon sinners to leave Satan's bondage. In ver. 13,14, are emblems of the conquest believers have over their spiritual enemies, sin, Satan, and the world, in and through Christ. Also of their safety and triumph in him; of their happy frames of soul, when they are above the world, and the things of it. This will be the blessed case of spiritual Israel in every sense in the latter day.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 12. - The Lord alone did lead him (cf. Exodus 13:21; Exodus 15:13). With him; i.e. along with Jehovah, as aiding him.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So the Lord alone did lead him,.... Out of Egypt, through the wilderness, to the land of Canaan, going before them in a pillar of fire and cloud; though this is not to be understood to the exclusion of the ministry of Moses and Aaron, by whom he led them, Psalm 77:20; it may be interpreted of the people being alone in the wilderness when led:

and there was no strange god with him; with Israel; so Aben Ezra, no idolatry among them then; to which sense are the Targums of Jerusalem and Jonathan; but it may rather signify that the Lord alone was the leader of his people, and he had no assistant in that work, and therefore all the glory should be given to him: he is the leader of his people, in a spiritual sense, out of a state of unregeneracy, which is a state of darkness and bondage; out of the ways of sin, and from the pastures of their own righteousness, into an open state of grace, which is a state of light and liberty; in Christ the way, and in the paths of faith, truth, holiness, and righteousness, unto the heavenly glory, typified by the land of Canaan, the blessings of which are next described: the Jews say (z), this will be in the days of the King Messiah; when there will be no abominable thing in Israel, the Lord alone shall lead him.

(z) Tikkune Zohar, Correct. 18. fol. 32. 2. 36. 2.

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The Song of Moses
…11As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, takes them, bears them on her wings: 12So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. 13He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; …

Deuteronomy 4:35 You were shown these things so that you might know that the LORD is God; besides him there is no other.
Deuteronomy 4:39 Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.
Deuteronomy 32:39 "See now that I myself am he! There is no god besides me. I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will heal, and no one can deliver out of my hand.
Psalm 81:9 You shall have no foreign god among you; you shall not worship any god other than me.
Isaiah 43:12 I have revealed and saved and proclaimed-- I, and not some foreign god among you. You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "that I am God.
Isaiah 63:14 like cattle that go down to the plain, they were given rest by the Spirit of the LORD. This is how you guided your people to make for yourself a glorious name.