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Deuteronomy 6:14
14Do not try to serve other gods. They are the gods that the people who live around you worship.
Deuteronomy 6:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
- New International Version (NIV)Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you;
- English Standard Version (ESV)You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you—
- New King James Version (NKJV)You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are all around you
Context of Deuteronomy 6:14
12But be careful that you do not forget the Lord. He rescued you from Egypt, where you were slaves. 13You must respect and obey the Lord your God. Serve only him. If you make a serious promise, only use his name to make it strong. Do not try to serve other gods. They are the gods that the people who live around you worship. 15The Lord your God lives among you. He wants you to belong to him alone. If you worship other gods, he will be very angry with you. He will completely destroy you from the whole earth. 16Do not test the Lord your God, to see what he will do. That is what you did at Massah.
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לֹ֣א תֵֽלְכ֔וּן אַחֲרֵ֖י אֱלֹהִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֑ים מֵאֱלֹהֵי֙ הָֽעַמִּ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר סְבִיבוֹתֵיכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Deuteronomy 6:14
- Deuteronomy 8:19But if you forget the Lord your God, he will destroy you. If you turn to other gods and you worship them, I warn you now: God will certainly destroy you!
- Deuteronomy 11:28But he will curse you if you refuse to obey his commands. If you turn away from him and you serve other gods that are new to you, he will curse you!
- Exodus 34:14Do not worship any other god instead of me. I am the Lord and I want you to belong to me alone.
- Jeremiah 25:6Do not look for other gods that you can serve and worship. Do not continue to do things that make me angry. Then I will not hurt you.”
- 1 John 5:21My little children, be careful to keep away from idols.
- Deuteronomy 13:7They are gods that people who live around you may worship. They may be gods of people who live near to you. They may be gods of people who live anywhere on the earth.
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 6:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14Ye shall not go after other gods - The object of religious worship among every people, whether that object be true or false, is ever considered as the pattern or exemplar to his worshippers. Christians are termed the followers of God; they take God for their pattern, and walk - act, as he does. Hence we see the meaning of the terms in this verse: Ye shall not go after - ye shall not take false gods for your patterns. The Canaanites, Greeks, Romans, etc…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10-25Verses 10-25 The Israelites were at the point of quitting a normal, life for a fixed and settled abode in the midst of other nations; they were exchanging a condition of comparative poverty for great and goodly cities, houses and vineyards. There was therefore before them a double danger; (1) a God-forgetting worldliness, and (2) a false tolerance of the idolatries practiced by those about to become their neighbors. The former error Moses strives to guard…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-16Verses 6-16 Here are means for maintaining and keeping up religion in our hearts and houses. 1. Meditation. God's words must be laid up in our hearts, that our thoughts may be daily employed about them. 2. The religious education of children. Often repeat these things to them. Be careful and exact in teaching thy children. Teach these truths to all who are any way under thy care. 3. Pious discourse. Thou shalt talk of these things with due reverence and…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-25Moses here explains how the stipulations in the following sections should be applied and handed on to future generations.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-251-9. Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them ... whither ye go to possess it--The grand design of all the institutions prescribed to Israel was to form a religious people, whose national character should be distinguished by that fear of the Lord their God which would ensure their divine observance of His worship and their steadfast obedience to His will. The…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 6
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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