Deuteronomy 4:6

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the nations, that shall hear all these statutes, and they will say, Nothing but a wise and understanding people is this great nation.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

In Context

5See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, just as the Lord my God commanded me; that ye may do so in the midst of the land whither ye go to take possession of it.

7For what great nation is there that hath gods so nigh unto it, as is the Lord our God at all times that we call upon him.

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Cross References

1 Kings 4:34(5:14) And men came from all the people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.

Job 28:28And he said unto man, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to eschew evil is understanding.

Psalms 19:8(19:9) The precepts of the Lord are upright, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is clear, enlightening the eyes.

Psalms 119:98Wiser than my enemy doth thy commandment make me; for it is perpetually with me.

Proverbs 1:5The wise will hear, and will increase [his] information; and the man of understanding will obtain wise counsels:

Proverbs 14:8The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way; but the folly of fools is deceit.

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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