Deuteronomy 4:36

Deuteronomy 4:36 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
• New International Version (NIV)From heaven he made you hear his voice to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from out of the fire.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you. And on earth he let you see his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Out of heaven He let you hear His voice, that He might instruct you; on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire.

Context of Deuteronomy 4:36

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? 35You have been taught that the Lord alone is God – there is no other besides him. From 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 38to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.

Deuteronomy 4:36 word by word

מִן־הַשָּׁמַ֛יִם הִשְׁמִֽיעֲךָ֥ אֶת־קֹל֖וֹ לְיַסְּרֶ֑ךָּ וְעַל־הָאָ֗רֶץ הֶרְאֲךָ֙ אֶת־אִשּׁ֣וֹ הַגְּדוֹלָ֔ה וּדְבָרָ֥יו שָׁמַ֖עְתָּ מִתּ֥וֹךְ הָאֵֽשׁ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Out of heavenשָׁמַיִםshâmayim shâmeh · heavenH8064
• he made thee to hearשָׁמַעshâma‛ · to hear: hearH8085
• his voiceקוֹלqôl qôl · voiceH6963
• that he might instructיָסַרyâsar · to disciplineH3256
• thee: and upon earthאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• he shewedרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
• thee his greatגָּדוֹלgâdôl gâdôl · great: largeH1419
• fireאֵשׁ'êsh · fireH784
• his wordsדָּבָרdâbâr · wordH1697
• out of the midstתָּ֫וֶךְtâvek · midstH8432

Cross-references for Deuteronomy 4:36

• Deuteronomy 4:33Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?
• Exodus 19:9The Lord said to Moses, “I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and so that they will always believe in you.” And Moses told the words of the people to the Lord.
• Exodus 20:18All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking – and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance.
• Exodus 24:16The glory of the Lord resided on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called to Moses from within the cloud.
• Nehemiah 9:13“You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You provided them with just judgments, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.
• Hebrews 12:18For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 4:36

• 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. 36great fire: God revealed the covenant law at Mount Sinai with an amazing and terrifying display of power and glory. It was like the eruption of a great volcano (see study note on 1:33; see Exodus 3:1–4; 24:16–18).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

Topics related to Deuteronomy 4:36

• God
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• Obedience
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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