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Deuteronomy 12:4
4Never worship the Lord your God in the way they 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
2Completely destroy all the worship sites on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every large tree. The people you’re forcing out worship their gods in these places. 3Tear down their altars, crush their sacred stones, burn their poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, cut down their idols, and wipe out the names of their gods from those places. Never worship the Lord your God in the way they worship their gods. 5The Lord your God will choose a place out of all your tribes to live and put his name. Go there and worship him. 6Bring him your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, one-tenth of your income, your contributions, the offerings you vow to bring, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your cattle, 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 12:30After they’ve been destroyed, be careful you aren’t tempted to follow their customs. Don’t even ask about their gods and say, “How did these people worship their gods? We want to do what they did.”
- Deuteronomy 16:21When you build the altar for the Lord your God, never plant beside it any tree dedicated to the goddess Asherah.
- Deuteronomy 20:18Otherwise, they will teach you to do all the disgusting things they do for their gods, and you will sin against the Lord your God.
- Leviticus 20:23Never follow the practices of the people I am forcing out of your way. I cannot stand them because they did all these things.
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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