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Deuteronomy 4:15 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 4 · verse 15
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:Deuteronomy 4:15 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 4:15 in context
13And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
14And 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.
15Take 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:
16Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
17The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- yourselvesnepheshproperly, a breathing creatureH5315 →
- similitudetᵉmûwnâhsomething portioned out, as ashapeH8544 →
- spakedâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
- HorebChôrêbChoreb, a name for the Sinaitic mountainsH2722 →
- midsttâveka bisectionH8432 →
- goodmᵉʼôdproperly, vehemenceH3966 →
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This most lively and excellent discourse is so entire, and the particulars of it are so often repeated, that we must take it altogether in the exposition of it, and endeavour to digest it into proper heads, for we cannot divide it into paragraphs. I. In general, it is the use and application of the foregoing history;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-40