New English Translation
Deuteronomy 12:4
4You must not worship the Lord your God the way they worship.
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 must by all means destroy all the places where the nations you are about to dispossess worship their gods – on the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree. 3You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, burn up their sacred Asherah poles, and cut down the images of their gods; you must eliminate their very memory from that place. You must not worship the Lord your God the way they worship. 5But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there. 6And there you must take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
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 have been destroyed from your presence, be careful not to be ensnared like they are; do not pursue their gods and say, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do the same.”
- Deuteronomy 16:21You must not plant any kind of tree as a sacred Asherah pole near the altar of the Lord your God which you build for yourself.
- Deuteronomy 20:18so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship their gods, causing you to sin against the Lord your God.
- Leviticus 20:23You must not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them.
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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