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

Bible Comments

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, for worship, or for the representation of God, as it is explained Deuteronomy 4:19, for otherwise it was not simply unlawful to draw the picture or make a figure of a man or a beast.

Deuteronomy 4:16

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