Deuteronomy 4:3

Deuteronomy 4:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal–peor: for all the men that followed Baal–peor, the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
• New International Version (NIV)You saw with your own eyes what the Lord did at Baal Peor. The Lord your God destroyed from among you everyone who followed the Baal of Peor,
• English Standard Version (ESV)Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal-peor, for the Lord your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Baal of Peor.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal Peor; for the Lord your God has destroyed from among you all the men who followed Baal of Peor.

Context of Deuteronomy 4:3

1Israel's people, listen to the rules and laws that I will now teach you. If you obey them, you will live. You will go into the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving to you. The land will belong to you, for you to live in. 2Do not add anything to these rules. Do not remove anything from them. You must obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving to you. You saw for yourselves what the Lord your God did at Baal-Peor. He killed every person among you who worshipped Baal there. 4But each of you who continued to trust the Lord your God is still alive today. 5Look! I have taught you rules and laws, as the Lord my God told me to do. Now you must obey them when you go into the land where you will live.

Deuteronomy 4:3 word by word

עֵֽינֵיכֶם֙ הָֽרֹאֹ֔ת אֵ֛ת אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה בְּבַ֣עַל פְּע֑וֹר כִּ֣י כָל־הָאִ֗ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֤ר הָלַךְ֙ אַחֲרֵ֣י בַֽעַל־פְּע֔וֹר הִשְׁמִיד֛וֹ יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ מִקִּרְבֶּֽךָ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Your eyesעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eyeH5869
• have seenרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
• what the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• didעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• because of Baal–peorבַּ֫עַל פְּעוֹרba‛al pe‛ôr · Baal of PeorH1187
• for all the menאִישׁ'îysh · manH376
• that followedהָלַךְhâlak · to go: followH1980
• that followedאַחַר'achar · afterH310
• thy Godאֱלֹהִים'ĕlôhîym · GodH430
• hath destroyedשָׁמַדshâmad · to destroyH8045
• them from amongקֶ֫רֶבqereb · entrails: amongH7130

Cross-references for Deuteronomy 4:3

• Numbers 25:1The Israelites were staying in Shittim. The men began to have sex with the women from Moab.
• Numbers 31:16You should not have done that. These women caused the Israelites to turn against the Lord. They did what Balaam said to them at Peor. As a result, a bad disease killed many of the Lord's people.
• Joshua 22:17We did something very bad at Peor. Even now, we have not made it right. The Lord brought a bad disease to punish us as his people.
• Psalms 106:28After that, they started to worship the false god, Baal of Peor. They ate the food from sacrifices that people gave to dead idols.
• Hosea 9:10The Lord says, ‘When I first found Israel, they gave me pleasure. It was as if I had found grapes in the wilderness. Your ancestors made me happy, like the first fruit on a young fig tree. But then they came to the god, Baal-Peor. They began to worship that disgusting idol. They became as disgusting as the idol that they loved so much.

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 4:3

• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3Baal was the Canaanite god associated with the fertility of the soil and of human and animal life. Local pagan worship centers linked Baal with their own shrines and cultic rituals, as with the god of Peor (see 3:29).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3-43-4. Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor ... the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you--It appears that the pestilence and the sword of justice overtook only the guilty in that affair (Nu 25:1-9) while the rest of the people were spared. The allusion to that recent and appalling judgment was seasonably made as a powerful dissuasive against idolatry, and the fact mentioned was calculated to make a deep impression on people…Read the comment

Topics related to Deuteronomy 4:3

• Baal-Peor
• Obedience

In the dictionaries

• Baal
• God
• Peor
• Baal-Peor
• Peor, Mount Peor, Baal Peor
• god, false god, goddess, idol, idolater, idolatrous, idolatry
• Add
• Baalpeor
• Consider
• Consuming

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 4

• 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
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings