Deuteronomy 4:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, ”

Deuteronomy 4:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Second Part of Moses-' First Address. This contains exhortations to obedience from motives of self-interest and of gratitude to Yahweh, and forms an apparent logical unity with Deuteronomy 1:6 to...
Deuteronomy 4:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

graven image. Hebrew. p esl. a sculpture ( Exodus 20:4 ). figure. Hebrew semel. only here, 2Ch 33:7, 2 Chronicles 33:15 , and Ezekiel 8:3 ; Ezekiel 8:5 . likeness . form. Hebrew. tablini...
Deuteronomy 4:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Lest ye corrupt yourselves , and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, The likeness of male or female - Such as Baal-peor and the Roman Priapus, Asht...
Deuteronomy 4:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ver. 16. Lest ye corrupt yourselves — God having a just title to their highest love, and religious veneration, their suffering any object whatever to come in competition with him, was a corrupt...
Deuteronomy 4:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image. The things are...
Deuteronomy 4:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

First Discourse ( Deuteronomy 1:14 to Deuteronomy 4:43 ) The long sojourn in the wilderness is now drawing to a close. The Israelites are encamped in the Plains of Moab within sight of the Promi...
Deuteronomy 4:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lest ye corrupt... and make. — The connection between idolatry and corruption is twofold. First, it changes “the glory of the incorruptible God ” into an image of His corruptible creatures. Second...
Deuteronomy 4:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1-40 , Deuteronomy 27:1-26 ; Deuteronomy 28:1-68 ; Deuteronomy 29:1-29 ; Deuteronomy 30:1-20 . WITH the twenty-sixth chapter the entirely homogeneous c...
Deuteronomy 4:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Jehovah “a Jealous God” Deuteronomy 4:15-31 How often Moses repeats, “ take heed. ” We must watch as well as pray and keep our souls diligently. We must specially beware of idols-that is, any...
Deuteronomy 4:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

On the ground of this survey Moser exhorted the people to be obedient, His appeal was based on the greatness of their God and the perfection of His law. Their whole existence as a nation centered aro...
Deuteronomy 4:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Moses lays great stress upon the prohibition to similitudes: not only condemning all improper resemblances, but all resemblances. "To what will ye liken me?" saith the LORD. Isaiah 40:18-25 . How sw...
Deuteronomy 4:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lest ye corrupt yourselves ,.... And not themselves only, but the word and worship of God, by idolatry, than which nothing is more corrupting and defiling, nor more abominable to God: and make you...
Deuteronomy 4:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Lest ye corrupt [yourselves], and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, Ver. 16. The likeness of male or female. ] As the blind Ethnics did, conclu...
Deuteronomy 4:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lest ye corrupt yourselves Corrupt your minds with mean thoughts of God, your hearts by suffering any creature to alienate your affections from him, or your ways by worshipping him in a corrupt man...
Deuteronomy 4:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

MOSES INSISTS ON OBEDIENCE (vs.1-14) Because God had already blessed Israel and intended to bless them more greatly still. Moses urges them to "listen to the statutes and judgments" he is teachin...
Deuteronomy 4:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Exhortations and Arguments. B. C. 1451. 1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the stat...
Deuteronomy 4:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

i.e. Lest ye corrupt your minds with mean and carnal thoughts of God. Or, corrupt your ways or courses, by worshipping God in a corrupt manner, or by falling into idolatry. A graven image, to wit...
Deuteronomy 4:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

They Are To Remember That Yahweh Is Without Form, And Is A Consuming Fire, And Must Therefore Avoid Making Any Graven Image for Worship Purposes For That Would Be to Adulterate and Misrepresent Yahw...
Deuteronomy 4:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES .—From the mention of what God had done for Israel, Moses passes to the obedience of the law. They were under deep obligation to keep it, and in doing so, consisted their wisdom, grea...
Deuteronomy 4:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deuteronomy 4:2 . Ye shall not add unto the word. This would be to debase revelation, and treat the divine law as a defective production of man, that needed additions and retrenchments. Solon, the...
Deuteronomy 4:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land. Moses’ discourse 1. In general it...
Deuteronomy 4:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Deuteronomy 4:1-5 ADMONITIONS AND EXHORTATIONS . Moses, having presented to the people certain facts in their recent history which had in them a specially animating and enco...
Deuteronomy 4:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Warning Against Idolatry
Deuteronomy 4:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 1:17 ; Acts 17:29 ; Acts 20:4 ; Acts 20:5 ; Deuteronomy 4:23 ; Deuteronomy 4:8 ; Deuteronomy 4:9 ; Exodus 20:4 ; Exodus 20:5 ; Exodus 32:7 ; Isaiah 40:18 ; John 4:24 ; Psalms 1...
Deuteronomy 4:16 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Parting Words Deuteronomy 4:1-49 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is, perhaps, strange to some that we speak of the fourth chapter of Deuteronomy as "Parting words," yet the whole Book of Deuteronomy cen...
Deuteronomy 4:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Lest ye corrupt yourselves — Your ways, by worshipping God in a corrupt manner.

Deuteronomy 4:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 4:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Deuteronomy 4:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Deuteronomy 4:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Deuteronomy 4:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 4:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 4:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 4:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Deuteronomy 4:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Deuteronomy 4:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 4:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Deuteronomy 4:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Deuteronomy 4:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Deuteronomy 4:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deuteronomy 4:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 4:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 4:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Deuteronomy 4:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 4:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Deuteronomy 4:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deuteronomy 4:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

Deuteronomy 4:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Deuteronomy 4:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Deuteronomy 4:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 4:16 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Deuteronomy 4:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes