Where Was It Spoken Tracing Each Promise Back to Its Source

Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 43:1

"Has not the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded: Go and draw toward Mount Tabor" (Judges 4:6). Where did He command this? In "You shall utterly destroy them" (Deuteronomy 20:17). Likewise you say: "The glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh together shall see, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken" (Isaiah 40:5). Where did He speak? "See now that I, even I, am He" (Deuteronomy 32:39). Likewise: "And it shall be when you come into the land" (Exodus 13:5), and where did He speak it? "I will bring you into the land" (Exodus 6:8). Likewise: "This is what the LORD spoke, a holy Sabbath of rest" (Exodus 16:23), and where did He speak it? "On the sixth day they shall prepare" (Exodus 16:5). Likewise: "This is what the LORD spoke, saying, Through those near to Me I will be sanctified" (Leviticus 10:3), and where did He speak it? "There I will meet with the children of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by My glory" (Exodus 29:43). Likewise: "The LORD your God will lay the dread and fear of you" (Deuteronomy 11:25), where did He speak it? "I will send My terror before you" (Exodus 23:27). Likewise: "When the LORD your God enlarges your border" (Deuteronomy 12:20), and where did He speak it? "For I will drive out nations before you" (Exodus 34:24). Likewise: "For the LORD your God has blessed you" (Deuteronomy 15:6), where did He speak it? "You shall be blessed above all peoples" (Deuteronomy 7:14). Likewise: "And the LORD has affirmed you this day" (Deuteronomy 26:18), where did He speak it? "You have affirmed the LORD this day" (Deuteronomy 26:17). Likewise: "And to set you high above all the nations" (Deuteronomy 26:19), where did He speak it? "The LORD will make you the head" (Deuteronomy 28:13). Likewise: "Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth" (Isaiah 1:2), where did He speak it? "Give ear, O heavens" (Deuteronomy 32:1). Likewise: "But if you refuse and rebel" (Isaiah 1:20), where did He speak it? "I will bring upon you [the sword]" (Leviticus 26:25). Likewise: "He will swallow up death forever" (Isaiah 25:8), where did He speak it? "I kill and I make alive" (Deuteronomy 32:39). Likewise: "Then you shall delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you ride [upon the high places]" (Isaiah 58:14), where did He speak it? "He made him ride on the high places of the earth" (Deuteronomy 32:13). Likewise: "Behold, it comes and it shall be done" (Ezekiel 39:8), where did He speak it? "I will make My arrows drunk with blood" (Deuteronomy 32:42). Likewise: "And Israel dwelt, each under his vine" (1 Kings 5:5), where did He speak it? "I will grant peace in the land" (Leviticus 26:6). Likewise: "There shall be no survivor to the house of Esau" (Obadiah 1:18), where did He speak it? "One out of Jacob shall have dominion, and shall destroy the survivor from the city" (Numbers 24:19). Likewise: "And the LORD remembered Sarah as He had said" (Genesis 21:1), where did He say it? "But Sarah your wife" (Genesis 17:19). Likewise: "And the LORD did to Sarah as He had spoken" (Genesis 21:1), where did He speak it? "On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abraham" (Genesis 15:18). Likewise: "And I will sell your sons" (Joel 4:8), where did He speak it? "And he said, Cursed be Canaan" (Genesis 9:25). Likewise: "And the LORD said to you, You shall not return [that way] again" (Deuteronomy 17:16), where did He say it? "For as you have seen Egypt" (Exodus 14:13). Likewise: "Thus says the LORD, Set each man his sword" (Exodus 32:27), where did He say it? "Whoever sacrifices to gods shall be utterly destroyed" (Exodus 22:19). Likewise: "The wolf and the lamb shall feed together" (Isaiah 65:25), where did He speak it? "I will rid the land of evil beasts" (Leviticus 26:6). Likewise: "The nations of which the LORD said, You shall not enter [among them]" (1 Kings 11:2), where did He say it? "You shall not intermarry with them" (Deuteronomy 7:3). Likewise: "Then Solomon said" (1 Kings 8:12), where did He say it? "For I appear in the cloud" (Leviticus 16:2). Likewise: "And they shall be Mine, says the LORD" (Malachi 3:17), where did He say it? "You shall be My treasured possession" (Exodus 19:5). Likewise: "And it shall be that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD [shall be delivered]" (Joel 3:5), where did He speak it? "And all the peoples of the earth shall see" (Deuteronomy 28:10). Likewise: "And I will also take some of them for priests" (Isaiah 66:21), where did He say it? "The secret things belong to the LORD our God" (Deuteronomy 29:28).

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