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Deuteronomy 4

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Deuteronomy 4 . 1 , An exhortation to obedience; Deuteronomy 4 . 41 , Moses appoints the three cities of refuge on that side of Jordan; Deuteronomy 4 . 44 , Recapitulation.

Deuteronomy 4:1

Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

Deuteronomy 4:1 · BSB

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Statutes , every thing that concerned morals and the rites and ceremonies of religion; judgments , all matters of civil right and wrong

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Deuteronomy 4:2

You must not add to or subtract from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you.

Deuteronomy 4:2 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:3

Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.

Deuteronomy 4:3 · BSB

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It appears from this appeal , that the pestilence , as well as the sword of the magistrates , singled out the guilty persons and spared the rest

  • Psalm 91:6-8 The legislator , in order to deter the Jews from idolatry , alludes to this fact , but he notices no circumstance but one , which , though in the original narrative was not stated , was infinitely the most important to advert to on this occasion; but which no persons , but spectators of the fact , and perfectly acquainted with every individual concerned in it , could possibly feel the truth of
  • Numbers 26:64

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Deuteronomy 4:4

But you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive to this day, every one of you.

Deuteronomy 4:4 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:5

See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.

Deuteronomy 4:5 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:6

Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the peoples, who will hear of all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

Deuteronomy 4:6 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:7

For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him?

Deuteronomy 4:7 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:8

And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?

Deuteronomy 4:8 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:9

Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.

Deuteronomy 4:9 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:10

The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”

Deuteronomy 4:10 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:11

You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.

Deuteronomy 4:11 · BSB

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midst Heb. heart

Deuteronomy 4:12

And the LORD spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of the words, but saw no form; there was only a voice.

Deuteronomy 4:12 · BSB

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Heb. save a voice

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Deuteronomy 4:13

He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.

Deuteronomy 4:13 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:14

At that time the LORD commanded me to teach you the statutes and ordinances you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

Deuteronomy 4:14 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:15

So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful

Deuteronomy 4:15 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:16

that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,

Deuteronomy 4:16 · BSB

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Such as Baal-peor , the Roman Priapus; Ashtaroth or Astarte , the Greek and Roman Venus , and many others

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Deuteronomy 4:17

of any beast that is on the earth or bird that flies in the air,

Deuteronomy 4:17 · BSB

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In these #### Verses there is an evident allusion to the idolatrous worship in Egypt. Among the Egyptians , almost everything in nature was the object of their idolatry; among beasts were oxen , heifers , sheep , goats , lions , dogs , monkeys , and cats; among birds , the ibis , crane , and hawk; among reptiles , the crocodile , serpents , frogs , flies , and beetles; all the fish of the Nile , and the Nile itself; besides the sun , moon , planets , stars , fire , light , air , darkness , and night. These are all included in the very circumstantial prohibition in the text , and very forcibly in the general terms of

  • Exodus 20:4 the reason of which prohibition becomes self-evident , when the various objects of Egyptian idolatry are considered
  • Romans 1:23

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Deuteronomy 4:18

or of any creature that crawls on the ground or fish that is in the waters below.

Deuteronomy 4:18 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:19

When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

Deuteronomy 4:19 · BSB

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divided or , imparted

Deuteronomy 4:20

Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.

Deuteronomy 4:20 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:21

The LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 4:21 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:22

For I will not be crossing the Jordan, because I must die in this land. But you shall cross over and take possession of that good land.

Deuteronomy 4:22 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:23

Be careful that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that He made with you; do not make an idol for yourselves in the form of anything He has forbidden you.

Deuteronomy 4:23 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:24

For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Deuteronomy 4:24 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:25

After you have children and grandchildren and you have been in the land a long time, if you then act corruptly and make an idol of any form—doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and provoking Him to anger—

Deuteronomy 4:25 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.

Deuteronomy 4:26 · BSB

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A most solemn method of adjuration , in use among all the nations in the world; God and man being called upon to bear testimony to the truth of what was spoken , that if there was any flaw or insincerity it might be detected , and if any crime , it might not go unpunished. Such appeals to God shew at once the origin and use of oaths

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Deuteronomy 4:27

Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

Deuteronomy 4:27 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:28

And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

Deuteronomy 4:28 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:29

But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 4:29 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:30

When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.

Deuteronomy 4:30 · BSB

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Heb. have found thee

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Deuteronomy 4:31

For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.

Deuteronomy 4:31 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:32

Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?

Deuteronomy 4:32 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:33

Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?

Deuteronomy 4:33 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:34

Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?

Deuteronomy 4:34 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:35

You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.

Deuteronomy 4:35 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:36

He let you hear His voice from heaven to discipline you, and on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the fire.

Deuteronomy 4:36 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:37

Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,

Deuteronomy 4:37 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:38

to drive out before you nations greater and mightier than you, and to bring you into their land and give it to you for your inheritance, as it is this day.

Deuteronomy 4:38 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:39

Know therefore this day and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.

Deuteronomy 4:39 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:40

Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.

Deuteronomy 4:40 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:41

Then Moses set aside three cities across the Jordan to the east

Deuteronomy 4:41 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:42

to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:

Deuteronomy 4:42 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:43

Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau belonging to the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead belonging to the Gadites, or Golan in Bashan belonging to the Manassites.

Deuteronomy 4:43 · BSB

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Bezer is the same as Bozra , formerly a royal city of Edom. See note on Genesis 36 . 33

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Ramoth was a celebrated city in the mountains of Gilead , placed by Eusebius fifteen miles east from Philadelphia or Ammon , and by Jerome in the neighbourhood of Jabbok , and consequently north of Philadelphia

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This city gave name to the district of Gaulonitis , now called Djolan , which comprises the plain to south of Djedour or Iturea , and to the west of Haouran . its southern frontier is the Nahar Aweired , by which it is separated from the district of Erbad , and the Sheriat el Mandhour , which separates it from the district of El Kefarat . on the west it is limited by the territory of Feik , and on the north-west by Djebel Heish , or mount Hermon

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Deuteronomy 4:44

This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.

Deuteronomy 4:44 · BSB

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This is evidently an introduction to the discourse of the subsequent chapters. Moses having practically improved some particulars in the history of Israel , proceeded to repeat and enforce the laws which he had delivered before , with additions and explanations , beginning with the ten commandments

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Deuteronomy 4:45

These are the testimonies, statutes, and ordinances that Moses proclaimed to them after they had come out of Egypt,

Deuteronomy 4:45 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:46

while they were in the valley across the Jordan facing Beth-peor in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon and was defeated by Moses and the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 4:46 · BSB

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Bethpeor Beth-peor was a city which was situated , according to Eusebius , opposite Jericho , and six miles above Livias. As the name signifies "the house of Peor ," it is probable that there was a temple to Peor , situated in this place , full in view of the people , while Moses was pressing upon them the worship of Jehovah alone; and perhaps the very temple where so many had sinned to their own destruction.

Deuteronomy 4:47

They took possession of the land belonging to Sihon and to Og king of Bashan—the two Amorite kings across the Jordan to the east—

Deuteronomy 4:47 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 4:48

extending from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Siyon (that is, Hermon),

Deuteronomy 4:48 · BSB

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even unto The Samaritan interpreter has , "unto the mountain of snow , which is Hermon." See note on Deuteronomy 3 . 9.

Deuteronomy 4:49

including all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the slopes of Pisgah.

Deuteronomy 4:49 · BSB

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web23 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Quotations Acts 13:32-33 → Deuteronomy 4:37-38
Allusions Deuteronomy 4:5 → Exodus 19, Deuteronomy 4:5-5 → Exodus 19, Joshua 2:11 → Deuteronomy 4:39, 2 Kings 21:3 → Deuteronomy 4:19, 2 Chronicles 6:36-39 → Deuteronomy 4:27, Psalm 106:32-33 → Deuteronomy 4:21, Psalm 135:12 → Deuteronomy 4:38, Psalm 136:12 → Deuteronomy 4:34, Proverbs 30:5 → Deuteronomy 4:2, Proverbs 30:5-6 → Deuteronomy 4:2
Echoes Acts 13:15 → Deuteronomy 4:25-46, Acts 13:31 → Deuteronomy 4:26, Acts 9:7 → Deuteronomy 4:12, 2 Chronicles 6:36-39 → Deuteronomy 4:29-31
Trajectories
Burning Bush (Divine Presence in Fire), Last Days Eschatology, Rahab and Jericho (Faith Saves Gentiles), Spiritual Adultery (Covenant Faithfulness and Idolatry), Sensory Access to God (From Sinai's Veil to Zion's Vision)
Longitudinal Themes
Wisdom
Chiasms
Shaped Deuteronomy 4:1–14, Deuteronomy 4:15–40
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