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Deuteronomy 14:1 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 14 · verse 1
Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.Deuteronomy 14:1 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 14:1 in context
1Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
2For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
3Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- baldnessqorchâhbaldnessH7144 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- makesûwmto putH7760 →
- eyesʻayinan eyeH5869 →
- Godʼĕlôhîymgods in the ordinary senseH430 →
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Moses here tells the people of Israel, I. How God had dignified them, as a peculiar people, with three distinguishing privileges, which were their honour, and figures of those spiritual blessings in heavenly things with which God has in Christ blessed us. 1. Here is election: The Lord hath chosen thee, v: 2.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-21