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Deuteronomy 4:17 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 4 · verse 17
The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,Deuteronomy 4:17 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 4:17 in context
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,
18The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
19And 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- likenesstabnîythstructureH8403 →
- wingedkânâphan edge or extremityH3671 →
- fliethʻûwphto flyH5774 →
- beastbᵉhêmâhproperly, a dumb beastH929 →
- earthʼeretsthe earthH776 →
- fowltsippôwra little birdH6833 →
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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