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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 4:15-24

They Are To Remember That Yahweh Is Without Form, And Is A Consuming Fire, And Must Therefore Avoid Making Any Graven Image for Worship Purposes For That Would Be to Adulterate and Misrepresent Yahweh (Deuteronomy 4:15-24 ). a Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no manner of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire (Deuteronomy 4:15). b Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourselves a graven image in the form of any figure, the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 4:1-40

Deuteronomy 4:1-Matthew : . Second Part of Moses’ First Address.— This contains exhortations to obedience from motives of self-interest and of gratitude to Yahweh, and forms an apparent logical unity with Deuteronomy 1:6 to Deuteronomy 3:29: but the two pieces had probably a separate origin. The lessons in Deuteronomy 4:1-Matthew : are not drawn immediately from chs. 1– 3. The writer of 1– 3 has in mind the events which followed the departure from Horeb: that of Deuteronomy 4:1-Matthew :... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 4:19

Driven to worship them, i.e. strongly inclined, and in a manner constrained, partly by the glory of these heavenly bodies, which may seem to be made for higher purposes than to enlighten this lump of earth; partly from that natural propension which is in men to idolatry. Or, shouldest be driven or thrust, to wit, out of the way of the Lord, (as it is more fully expressed, Deuteronomy 13:5) or be seduced, or led aside, as silly sheep easily are, and worship them. Or, shouldest be cast down, or... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:1-49

CRITICAL NOTES.—From the mention of what God had done for Israel, Moses passes to the obedience of the law. They were under deep obligation to keep it, and in doing so, consisted their wisdom, greatness, and destiny.Deuteronomy 4:1. Statutes—rules concerning religion and Divine worship. Judgments—civil enactments, public and private. The two denote the whole law in its leading features (Leviticus 19:37).Deuteronomy 4:2. This law must not be altered; but kept as God’s unchangeable... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:1-49

Chapter 4NOW therefore ( Deuteronomy 4:1 )Moses is now making application.NOW therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and to the judgments, which I teach you, to do them, that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD the God of your fathers is given to you. For ye shall not add unto the word which I commanded, neither shall ye diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you ( Deuteronomy 4:1-2 ).So the forbidden to add or... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 4:1-49

Deuteronomy 4:2 . Ye shall not add unto the word. This would be to debase revelation, and treat the divine law as a defective production of man, that needed additions and retrenchments. Solon, the Athenian lawgiver, obtained an oath from the principal officers of the senate to observe his laws inviolate for ten years, till he should return from his travels. Besides, the tabernacle being a type of heaven, would utterly be gaited and marred by the fanciful rituals devised by men. Yet many... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Deuteronomy 4:1-40

Deuteronomy 4:1-40Now 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.Moses’ discourse1. In general it is the use and application of the foregoing history. It comes in by way of inference from it (Deuteronomy 4:1). This use we should make of the review of God’s providences, we should by them be quickened to duty and obedience. The histories of ancient times should, in like manner, be... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 4:19

Deu 4:19 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. Ver. 19. All the host of heaven. ] Called the queen of heaven. Jer 7:18 Should be driven. ] Or, Drawn by the enticement of the devil, who is ειδωλοχαρης , saith Synisius, a great imagemonger; or by the seduction of others,... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Deuteronomy 4:19

when thou: Deuteronomy 17:3, 2 Kings 23:4, 2 Kings 23:5, 2 Kings 23:11, Job 31:26, Job 31:27, Jeremiah 8:2, Ezekiel 8:16, Amos 5:25, Amos 5:26 the host: Genesis 2:1, 2 Kings 17:16, 2 Kings 21:3, Jeremiah 19:13, Zephaniah 1:5, Acts 7:42, Romans 1:25 which the Lord: Genesis 1:16-Job :, Joshua 10:12, Joshua 10:13, Nehemiah 9:6, Psalms 74:16, Psalms 74:17, Psalms 136:7-1 Samuel :, Psalms 148:3-Deuteronomy :, Jeremiah 31:35, Jeremiah 33:25, Matthew 5:45 divided: or, imparted Reciprocal: Genesis... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Deuteronomy 4:19

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.Driven — Strongly inclined.Which the Lord hath divided unto all nations — Which are not Gods, but creatures, made not for the worship, but for the use of men; yea, of the meanest and most barbarous people under heaven, and therefore... read more