New English Translation
Deuteronomy 4:35
35You have been taught that the Lord alone is God – there is no other besides him.
Deuteronomy 4:35 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God; there is none else beside him.
- New International Version (NIV)You were shown these things so that you might know that the Lord is God; besides him there is no other.
- English Standard Version (ESV)To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.
- New King James Version (NKJV)To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord Himself is God; there is none other besides Him.
Context of Deuteronomy 4:35
33Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it? 34Or has God ever before tried to deliver a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, signs, wonders, war, strength, power, and other very terrifying things like the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes? You have been taught that the Lord alone is God – there is no other besides him. 36From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words. 37Moreover, because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants who followed them and personally brought you out of Egypt with his great power
Read all of Deuteronomy 4Deuteronomy 4:35 word by word
אַתָּה֙ הָרְאֵ֣תָ לָדַ֔עַת כִּ֥י יְהוָ֖ה ה֣וּא הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ין ע֖וֹד מִלְבַדּֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Deuteronomy 4:35
- 1 Samuel 17:45But David replied to the Philistine, “You are coming against me with sword and spear and javelin. But I am coming against you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel’s armies, whom you have defied!
- 1 Kings 18:36When it was time for the evening offering, Elijah the prophet approached the altar and prayed: “O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, prove today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command.
- 2 Kings 19:19Now, O Lord our God, rescue us from his power, so that all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you, Lord, are the only God.”
- Psalms 58:11Then observers will say, “Yes indeed, the godly are rewarded! Yes indeed, there is a God who judges in the earth!”
- Psalms 83:18Then they will know that you alone are the Lord, the sovereign king over all the earth.
- Deuteronomy 32:23I will increase their disasters, I will use up my arrows on them.
- Exodus 15:11Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you? – majestic in holiness, fearful in praises, working wonders?
- 1 Samuel 2:2No one is holy like the Lord! There is no one other than you! There is no rock like our God!
- Isaiah 44:6This is what the Lord, Israel’s king, says, their protector, the Lord who commands armies: “I am the first and I am the last, there is no God but me.
- Isaiah 45:5I am the Lord, I have no peer, there is no God but me. I arm you for battle, even though you do not recognize me.
- Mark 12:29Jesus answered, “The most important is: ‘Listen, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.
- 1 John 5:20And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 4:35
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 29-40Verses 29-40 Unwilling, as it might seem, to close his discourse with words of terror, Moses makes a last appeal to them in these verses in a different strain. Deuteronomy 4:34 Temptations - Compare Deuteronomy 7:18-19; Deuteronomy 29:2-3; not, “i. e.” the tribulations and persecutions undergone by the Israelites, out the plagues miraculously inflicted on the Egyptians. Deuteronomy 4:37 He chose their seed after them - literally, “his seed after him.”…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 24-40Verses 24-40 Moses urged the greatness, glory, and goodness of God. Did we consider what a God he is with whom we have to do, we should surely make conscience of our duty to him, and not dare to sin against him. Shall we forsake a merciful God, who will never forsake us, if we are faithful unto him? Whither can we go? Let us be held to our duty by the bonds of love, and prevailed with by the mercies of God to cleave to him. Moses urged God's authority…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-40Moses gave a long speech to the Israelites because of their recent failures and what he thought would happen in Canaan.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 14-4015. Take ... good heed ... for ye saw no manner of similitude--The extreme proneness of the Israelites to idolatry, from their position in the midst of surrounding nations already abandoned to its seductions, accounts for their attention being repeatedly drawn to the fact that God did not appear on Sinai in any visible form; and an earnest caution, founded on that remarkable circumstance, is given to beware, not only of making representations of false…Read the comment
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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
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