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Deuteronomy 12:4
4Do not worship the Lord your God in the same way that those people worship their gods.
Deuteronomy 12:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Ye shall not do so unto the Lord your God.
- New International Version (NIV)You must not worship the Lord your God in their way.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You shall not worship the Lord your God with such things.
Context of Deuteronomy 12:4
2You will chase out the nations who live there. Then you must destroy completely all the places where those people worship their gods. Those places are on the tops of mountains and hills, and under big green trees. 3You must break into pieces their altars and stone pillars. Burn their Asherah poles. Knock down the images of their gods. Destroy those places so that nobody remembers the false gods. Do not worship the Lord your God in the same way that those people worship their gods. 5The Lord will choose one place from the land where all your tribes live. That is the place where people must go to worship him. That is his special home. 6That is where you must take your burnt offerings and other sacrifices to offer to the Lord. Take your tithes and offerings to him there. Take the gifts that you have promised to give, and the gifts that you choose to give. Take the firstborn animals from your cows, sheep and goats.
Read all of Deuteronomy 12Deuteronomy 12:4 word by word
לֹֽא־תַעֲשׂ֣וּן כֵּ֔ן לַיהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Deuteronomy 12:4
- Deuteronomy 12:30But after the Lord has destroyed them, be careful! Do not do the same wrong things as they do. Do not try to worship their gods. Do not say, ‘How do the people of these nations worship their gods? I would like to do the same thing!’
- Deuteronomy 16:21When you build an altar to offer sacrifices to the Lord your God, do not put any Asherah pole there.
- Deuteronomy 20:18If not, they would teach you all the evil things that they do to worship their gods. They would cause you to do bad things against the Lord your God.
- Leviticus 20:23The people who are living in Canaan now are doing bad things. I, the Lord, hate them because they do these things. I will send them out of Canaan.
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 12:4
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4i. e., “The idolaters set up their altars and images on any high hill, and under every green tree at their pleasure, but ye shall not do so; the Lord Himself shall determine the spot for your worship, and there only shall ye seek Him.” The religion of the Canaanites was human; its modes of worship were of man‘s devising. It fixed its holy places on the hills in the vain thought of being nearer heaven, or in deep groves where the silence and gloom might…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-151. These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe--Having in the preceding chapter inculcated upon the Israelites the general obligation to fear and love God, Moses here enters into a detail of some special duties they were to practise on their obtaining possession of the promised land.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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