Deuteronomy 4:16
So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing, male or female,
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
17Or any beast of the earth, or winged bird of the air,
Cross References
Exodus 20:4You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:
Leviticus 19:4Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 4:23Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you.
Deuteronomy 5:8You may not make for yourselves an image in the form of anything in heaven or on earth or in the waters under the earth:
Deuteronomy 27:15Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it.
Isaiah 40:18Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 4:2-41
Exhortations and Arguments. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you. 2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. 3 Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed… Read the whole commentary →