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Deuteronomy 4:6 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 4 · verse 6
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.Deuteronomy 4:6 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 4:6 in context
4But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.
5Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
6Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
7For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
8And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- understandingbîynâhunderstandingH998 →
- statuteschôqan enactmentH2706 →
- nationsʻama peopleH5971 →
- wisdomchokmâhwisdomH2451 →
- nationgôwya foreign nationH1471 →
- sightʻayinan eyeH5869 →
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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