Deuteronomy 4:19

and lest having looked up to the sky, and having seen the sun and the moon and the stars, and all the + 4:19 Gr. order of heaven.heavenly bodies, thou shouldest go astray and worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God has distributed to all the nations under heaven.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

In Context

18the likeness of any reptile which creeps on the earth, the likeness of any fish of those which are in the waters under the earth;

20But God took you, and led you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:14And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven + 1:14 Gr. for light or shining.to give light upon the earth, to divide between day and night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years.

Genesis 2:1And the heavens and the earth were finished, and the whole + 2:1 Or, order. See John 1. 10.world of them.

Joshua 10:12Then Joshua spoke to the Lord, in the day in which the Lord delivered the Amorite into the power of Israel, when he destroyed them in Gabaon, and they were destroyed from before the children of Israel: and Joshua said, Let the sun stand over against Gabaon, and the moon over against the valley of Ælon.

2 Kings 21:3And he + 21:3 Gr. returned and built.built again the high places, which Ezekias his father had demolished; and + 21:3 Or, built.set up an altar to Baal, and made groves as Achaab king of Israel made them; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

2 Kings 23:11And he burned the horses which the kings of Juda had given to the sun in the entrance of the house of the Lord, + 23:11 Gr. to.by the treasury of Nathan the + 23:11 Heb. Nathan-melech.king's eunuch, in the + 23:11 Gr. again from the Heb.suburbs; and he burned the chariot of the sun with fire.

Nehemiah 9:6And Esdras said, Thou art the only true Lord; thou madest the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, and all their array, the earth, and all things that are in it, the seas, and all things in them; and thou quickenest all things, and the hosts of heaven worship thee.

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 →

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