Deuteronomy 4:15-31
very <03966> [Take ye.]
form <08544> [of similitude.]
corrupt <07843> [corrupt.]
likeness <08403> [the likeness.]
Such as Baal-peor, the Roman Priapus; Ashtaroth or Astarte, the Greek and Roman Venus, and many others.
In these verses there is an evident allusion to the idolatrous worship in Egypt. Among the Egyptians, almost everything in nature was the object of their idolatry; among beasts were oxen, heifers, sheep, goats, lions, dogs, monkeys, and cats; among birds, the ibis, crane, and hawk; among reptiles, the crocodile, serpents, frogs, flies, and beetles; all the fish of the Nile, and the Nile itself; besides the sun, moon, planets, stars, fire, light, air, darkness, and night. These are all included in the very circumstantial prohibition in the text, and very forcibly in the general terms of Ex 20:4, the reason of which prohibition becomes self-evident, when the various objects of Egyptian idolatry are considered.
see <07200> [when thou.]
creation <06635> [the host.]
Lord <03068> [which the Lord.]
assigned <02505> [divided. or, imparted.]
iron-smelting <01270> [the iron.]
people <05971> [a people.]
guard <08104> [heed.]
forget <07911> [lest ye forget.]
do ..... image <06213 06459> [make you.]
God <0430> [thy God.]
jealous God <0410 07067> [a jealous God.]
produced <03205> [beget.]
become corrupt <07843> [corrupt. See on ver.]
make ........ do ... evil things <07451 06213> [do evil.]
invoke heaven <05749 08064> [I call heaven.]
A most solemn method of adjuration, in use among all the nations in the world; God and man being called upon to bear testimony to the truth of what was spoken, that if there was any flaw or insincerity it might be detected, and if any crime, it might not go unpunished. Such appeals to God shew at once the origin and use of oaths.
swiftly ..................... long <04118 0748> [ye shall.]
worship <05647> [ye shall.]
see <07200> [neither see.]
seek <01245> [But if.]
heart ... soul <03824 05315> [with all.]
things <01697> [all these.]
happen ...... latter <04672 0319> [are come upon thee. Heb. have found thee.]
latter <0319> [in the latter.]
return <07725> [if thou.]
obey <08085> [obedient.]
he <03068> [the Lord.]
forget <07911> [forget.]
