Text -- Deuteronomy 4:30 (NET)

4:30 In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days, if you return to the Lord your God and obey him

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Deu 4:30

¹ sn The phrase is not used here in a technical sense for the eschaton, but rather refers to a future time when Israel will be punished for its sin and experience exile. See Deut 31:29.

² tn Heb “hear his voice.” The expression is an idiom meaning “obey,” occurring in Deut 8:20; 9:23; 13:18; 21:18, 20; 26:14, 17; 27:10; 28:1-2, 15, 45, 62; 30:2, 8, 10, 20.