Deuteronomy 4:28

and you have served gods there, work of man’s hands, wood and stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

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In The King James Version

And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

In Context

27and YHWH has scattered you among the peoples, and you have been left few in number among the nations to where YHWH leads you,

29And you have sought your God YHWH from there, and have found [Him] when you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:64and YHWH has scattered you among all the peoples, from the end of the earth even to the [other] end of the earth; and you have served other gods there which you have not known, you and your fathers—wood and stone.

2 Kings 17:40and they have not listened, but they are doing according to their former custom,

Psalms 115:6They have ears, and they do not hear, || They have a nose, and they do not smell,

Isaiah 44:9Framers of a carved image, all of them [are] emptiness, || And their desirable things do not profit, || And they [are] their own witnesses, || They do not see, nor know, that they may be ashamed.

Isaiah 45:20Be gathered, and come in, || Come near together, you escaped of the nations, || They have not known, || Who are lifting up the wood of their carved image, || And praying to a god [that] does not save.

Jeremiah 10:3For the statutes of the peoples are vanity, || For one has cut a tree from a forest, || Work of the hands of a craftsman, with an axe,

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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