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Deuteronomy 4:19 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 4 · verse 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.Deuteronomy 4:19 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 4:19 in context
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.
20But 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.
21Furthermore 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:
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Key words (Strong's)
- worshipshâchâhto depressH7812 →
- heavenshâmayimthe sky (as aloftH8064 →
- drivennâdachto push offH5080 →
- seestrâʼâhto see, literally or figurativelyH7200 →
- starskôwkâba starH3556 →
- serveʻâbadto workH5647 →
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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