Deuteronomy 4
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Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.

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

Deuteronomy 4:8,45 And what nation is there so great, that has statutes and judgments …

Deuteronomy 5:1 And Moses called all Israel, and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the …

Deuteronomy 6:1,2 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, …

Deuteronomy 8:1 All the commandments which I command you this day shall you observe …

Deuteronomy 11:1,32 Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his charge, …

Leviticus 19:37 Therefore shall you observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, …

Leviticus 20:8 And you shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.

Leviticus 22:31 Therefore shall you keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.

Psalm 105:45 That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise you the LORD.

Psalm 119:4 You have commanded us to keep your precepts diligently.

Ezekiel 11:20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do …

Ezekiel 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my …

Ezekiel 37:24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall …

Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you: …

Luke 1:6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments …

John 15:14 You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

that ye may

Leviticus 18:5 You shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if …

Ezekiel 20:11,21 And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which …

Romans 10:5 For Moses describes the righteousness which is of the law, That the …

Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.
Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;

keep thy soul

Deuteronomy 4:15,23 Take you therefore good heed to yourselves…

Proverbs 3:1,3 My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments…

Proverbs 4:20-23 My son, attend to my words; incline your ear to my sayings…

Luke 8:18 Take heed therefore how you hear: for whoever has, to him shall be …

Hebrews 2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the …

James 2:22 See you how faith worked with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?

lest they

Joshua 1:18 Whoever he be that does rebel against your commandment, and will …

Psalm 119:11 Your word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Proverbs 3:1-3,21 My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments…

Proverbs 4:4 He taught me also, and said to me, Let your heart retain my words: …

Proverbs 7:1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with you.

Hebrews 2:1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which …

Revelation 3:3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, …

teach them

Deuteronomy 6:7 And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk …

Deuteronomy 11:19 And you shall teach them your children, speaking of them when you …

Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God: but those things which …

Deuteronomy 31:19 Now therefore write you this song for you, and teach it the children …

Genesis 18:19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household …

Exodus 13:8,9,14-16 And you shall show your son in that day, saying, This is done because …

Joshua 4:6,7,21 That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their …

Psalm 34:11-16 Come, you children, listen to me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD…

Psalm 71:18 Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not; until …

Psalm 78:3-8 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us…

Proverbs 1:8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the …

Proverbs 4:1-13 Hear, you children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know …

Proverbs 23:26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

Isaiah 38:19 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day: the …

Ephesians 6:4 And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them …

Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.
Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,

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 Ex.

Deuteronomy 20:4 For the LORD your God is he that goes with you, to fight for you …

Romans 1:23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made …

The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

when thou

Deuteronomy 17:3 And has gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the …

2 Kings 23:4,5,11 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of …

Job 31:26,27 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness…

Jeremiah 8:2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all …

Ezekiel 8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and, …

Amos 5:25,26 Have you offered to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness …

the host

Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

2 Kings 17:16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made …

2 Kings 21:3 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had …

Jeremiah 19:13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, …

Zephaniah 1:5 And them that worship the host of heaven on the housetops; and them …

Acts 7:42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; …

Romans 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served …

which the Lord

Genesis 1:16-18 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, …

Joshua 10:12,13 Then spoke Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered …

Nehemiah 9:6 You, even you, are LORD alone; you have made heaven, the heaven of …

Psalm 74:16,17 The day is yours, the night also is yours: you have prepared the …

Psalm 136:7-9 To him that made great lights: for his mercy endures for ever…

Psalm 148:3-5 Praise you him, sun and moon: praise him, all you stars of light…

Jeremiah 31:35 Thus said the LORD, which gives the sun for a light by day, and the …

Jeremiah 33:25 Thus said the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and …

Matthew 5:45 That you may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for …

divided. or, imparted

But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:
But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.
Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

they God

Deuteronomy 9:3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD your God is he which …

Deuteronomy 32:22 For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell, …

Exodus 24:17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on …

Psalm 21:9 You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger: the …

Isaiah 30:33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yes, for the king it is prepared; …

Isaiah 33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness has surprised the hypocrites. …

Jeremiah 21:12-14 O house of David, thus said the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, …

Nahum 1:6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness …

Zephaniah 1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them …

Hebrews 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.

a jealous God

Deuteronomy 6:15 (For the LORD your God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger …

Deuteronomy 29:20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his …

Deuteronomy 32:16,21 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations …

Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the …

Exodus 34:14 For you shall worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, …

Psalm 78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved …

Isaiah 42:8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, …

Nahum 1:2 God is jealous, and the LORD revenges; the LORD revenges, and is …

Zephaniah 3:8 Therefore wait you on me, said the LORD, until the day that I rise …

1 Corinthians 10:22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

I call heaven 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.

Deuteronomy 30:18,19 I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish, and that …

Deuteronomy 31:28 Gather to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that …

Deuteronomy 32:1 Give ear, O you heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the …

Isaiah 1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, …

Jeremiah 2:12 Be astonished, O you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be …

Jeremiah 6:19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the …

Jeremiah 22:29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.

Ezekiel 36:4 Therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; …

Micah 1:2 Hear, all you people; listen, O earth, and all that therein is: and …

Micah 6:2 Hear you, O mountains, the LORD's controversy, and you strong foundations …

ye shall

Deuteronomy 29:28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, …

Leviticus 18:28 That the land spew not you out also, when you defile it, as it spewed …

Leviticus 26:31-35 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries to …

Joshua 23:16 When you have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which …

Isaiah 6:11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be …

Isaiah 24:1-3 Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns …

Jeremiah 44:22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your …

Ezekiel 33:28 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength …

Judges 21:24 And the children of Israel departed there at that time, every man …

And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;

all these

1 Kings 8:46-53 If they sin against you, (for there is no man that sins not,) and …

2 Chronicles 6:36-39 If they sin against you, (for there is no man which sins not,) and …

Daniel 9:11-19 Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, even by departing, that …

are come upon thee. [heb] have found thee

Deuteronomy 31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will …

Exodus 18:8 And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh …

in the latter

Deuteronomy 31:29 For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, …

Genesis 49:1 And Jacob called to his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, …

Numbers 24:20 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek …

Jeremiah 23:20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and …

Daniel 10:14 Now I am come to make you understand what shall befall your people …

Hosea 3:5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD …

Hebrews 1:2 Has in these last days spoken to us by his Son, whom he has appointed …

if thou

Deuteronomy 30:10 If you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God…

Lamentations 3:40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

Hosea 14:2,3 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say to him, Take away …

Joel 2:12,13 Therefore also now, said the LORD, turn you even to me with all your …

Acts 3:19 Repent you therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out…

Acts 26:20 But showed first to them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout …

obedient

Isaiah 1:19 If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land:

Jeremiah 7:23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will …

Zechariah 6:15 And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the …

Hebrews 5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation …

(For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

because

Deuteronomy 7:7-9 The LORD did not set his love on you, nor choose you, because you …

Deuteronomy 9:5 Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, …

Deuteronomy 10:15 Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he …

Psalm 105:6-10 O you seed of Abraham his servant, you children of Jacob his chosen…

Isaiah 41:8,9 But you, Israel, are my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed …

Jeremiah 31:1 At the same time, said the LORD, will I be the God of all the families …

Malachi 1:2 I have loved you, said the LORD. Yet you say, Wherein have you loved …

Luke 1:72,73 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his …

Romans 9:5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ …

and brought

Exodus 13:3,9,14 And Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which you came …

in his sight

2 Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth…

Psalm 32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go: …

Psalm 34:15 The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry.

with his

Deuteronomy 4:34 Or has God assayed to go and take him a nation from the middle of …

Psalm 114:1-6 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of …

Psalm 136:10-15 To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endures for ever…

Isaiah 51:9-11 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the …

Isaiah 63:11,12 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying…

To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.
Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.

Bezer Bezer is the same as Bozrah, formerly a royal city of Edom.

Genesis 36:33 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.

Joshua 20:8 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer …

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.

Joshua 21:38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, to …

1 Kings 4:13 The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the towns of …

1 Kings 22:3,4 And the king of Israel said to his servants, Know you that Ramoth …

1 Chronicles 6:80 And out of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, and …

Golan 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 Seriat 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 northward by Djebel Heish, or mount Hermon.

Joshua 21:27 And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites…

1 Chronicles 6:71 To the sons of Gershom were given out of the family of the half tribe …

And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,
On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:
And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,
And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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