30 Hard Deuteronomy 32 Quiz Questions and Answers

Answer 1: D. The Rock is the song’s controlling image of God; it returns at every major turn of the song to declare God’s unchanging righteousness against Israel’s instability.
KJV Reference: “He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he” (Deuteronomy 32:4).

Answer 2: A. The double charge of “foolish and unwise” frames the whole indictment: a people who have a Father, a Maker, and a Founder, yet act as if they had none.
KJV Reference: “Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?” (Deuteronomy 32:6).

Answer 3: C. The image is deliberately impossible: honey from stone, oil from flint. Israel’s wilderness provision was a continuous miracle of abundance from the most barren places.
KJV Reference: “He made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock” (Deuteronomy 32:13).

Answer 4: B. The verse moves through paired antitheses: kill and make alive, wound and heal. The exclusivity of the LORD is the ground of both his judgment and his salvation.
KJV Reference: “See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal” (Deuteronomy 32:39).

Answer 5: E. The location is not a geography but a spiritual description: nothing, nowhere, the kind of waste that produces nothing on its own. Whatever Jacob became, he became by the LORD’s instruction.
KJV Reference: “He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye” (Deuteronomy 32:10).

Answer 6: D. The two cities of Genesis judgment supply the metaphor for Israel’s spiritual fruit: grapes of gall, clusters that are bitter. Israel had become what Abraham once interceded against.
KJV Reference: “For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter” (Deuteronomy 32:32).

Answer 7: A. Jeshurun is a tender name for Israel, “the upright one,” used here in cruel irony. The well-fed beast that kicks its master is the song’s most acid description of prosperous apostasy.
KJV Reference: “But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation” (Deuteronomy 32:15).

Answer 8: B. The song ends not with judgment alone but with the nations called to share in the LORD’s vindication of his people, and the land made merciful again.
KJV Reference: “Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people” (Deuteronomy 32:43).

Answer 9: C. Hiding the face is the inverse of the priestly blessing of the LORD’s countenance. Where his face once shone upon Israel, he turns away to let their own end teach them what they refused to learn.
KJV Reference: “And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith” (Deuteronomy 32:20).

Answer 10: D. Even the original division of the world’s peoples was made with Israel in view: the boundaries of nations were drawn around the future portion of the LORD.
KJV Reference: “When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel” (Deuteronomy 32:8).

Answer 11: E. The same Moses who could not enter the land was given the highest viewpoint over it. He saw what he could not possess, and died with the gift of the LORD’s last sight.
KJV Reference: “Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan” (Deuteronomy 32:49).

Answer 12: A. Heaven and earth are summoned as the standing witnesses of the covenant, the same pair Moses called upon in chapter 30 when setting life and death before the people.
KJV Reference: “Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth” (Deuteronomy 32:1).

Answer 13: C. The song refuses to dignify foreign gods with the name “god” in any meaningful sense. They are devils. And worse, devils whom even the apostates barely knew.
KJV Reference: “They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not” (Deuteronomy 32:17).

Answer 14: B. The provocation has the exact divine reciprocity: they moved God to jealousy with no-gods; he moves them to jealousy with no-people. Vanity meets foolish nation.
KJV Reference: “They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities” (Deuteronomy 32:21).

Answer 15: D. The contrast inverts the promise of victory. Such defeat is unthinkable apart from the Rock himself selling them and the LORD himself shutting them up.
KJV Reference: “How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?” (Deuteronomy 32:30).

Answer 16: E. Memory is the song’s repeated cure for apostasy. The command is paired with: ask thy father, ask thy elders. The witness is generational.
KJV Reference: “Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee” (Deuteronomy 32:7).

Answer 17: B. The eagle does not shield her young; she stirs them, drops them, and catches them on her wings. The image is education by terror, training by free fall.
KJV Reference: “As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings” (Deuteronomy 32:11).

Answer 18: A. The line cited in Romans 12 and Hebrews 10 originates here. Vengeance is not Israel’s right or the nations’ right; it is the LORD’s, and it ripens at his appointed hour.
KJV Reference: “To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time” (Deuteronomy 32:35).

Answer 19: D. The image is of the warrior preparing for combat: a sharpened blade and a hand laid on the lever of judgment. The sword is whetted, not sheathed.
KJV Reference: “If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me” (Deuteronomy 32:41).

Answer 20: C. The song mixes the language of feast and battle: arrows that drink, swords that devour. The vengeance has the hunger of the body, not the cool detachment of a verdict.
KJV Reference: “I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives” (Deuteronomy 32:42).

Answer 21: B. Moses’ death is patterned on Aaron’s: ascend the mountain, be gathered to the fathers there. The mountain becomes the gateway from leadership into the company of the dead.
KJV Reference: “And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people” (Deuteronomy 32:50).

Answer 22: E. The LORD names both the place and the substance of the failure: Moses did not sanctify him in the sight of the people. The leader’s sin keeps him at the threshold of the land he led toward.
KJV Reference: “Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel” (Deuteronomy 32:51).

Answer 23: A. The unfaithfulness is named at its root: not a forgotten miracle, not a forgotten covenant, but a forgotten Father. The Rock who begat Israel is the Rock they have ceased to remember.
KJV Reference: “Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee” (Deuteronomy 32:18).

Answer 24: D. Moses’ last instruction makes the song a parental responsibility. The words are not for ritual storage but for the heart, and the heart’s contents must be passed forward to the next generation.
KJV Reference: “Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law” (Deuteronomy 32:46).

Answer 25: C. The chapter pauses before the ending: Moses finishes the song before he turns to the final command. The narrator marks the seam between song and exhortation.
KJV Reference: “And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel” (Deuteronomy 32:45).

Answer 26: B. The phrase “it is your life” has weight: not a slogan but a statement that the words and the people’s continuance in the land are bound together as cause and effect.
KJV Reference: “For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land” (Deuteronomy 32:47).

Answer 27: A. The catalogue piles abundance upon abundance: dairy, fat, choice livestock, even wheat and grape blood. The land’s generosity is total, which makes the apostasy that follows the more grotesque.
KJV Reference: “Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape” (Deuteronomy 32:14).

Answer 28: D. The judgment is an act of pity. The LORD waits until Israel has nothing left of itself, and then he repents (turns) for his servants. Mercy comes when self-help is exhausted.
KJV Reference: “For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left” (Deuteronomy 32:36).

Answer 29: C. The LORD swears by the only thing greater than himself: his own eternal life. The lifted hand is the formal gesture of oath, the everlasting “I live” the formal content.
KJV Reference: “For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever” (Deuteronomy 32:40).

Answer 30: E. The diagnosis is precise. The corruption is not external but inherited; the people bear a spot, but it is not the spot of God’s true children. The song will spend the next forty verses tracing what such a generation produces.
KJV Reference: “They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation” (Deuteronomy 32:5).