Deuteronomy 4:7

For what nation is there so great, who hath elohim so near unto them, as Hashem Eloheinu is in all things for which we call upon Him?

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?

In Context

6Be shomer therefore and do them; for this is your chochmah and your binah in the sight of the peoples, which shall hear all these chukkim, and say, Surely HaGoy HaGadol is a wise and understanding people.

8And what nation is there so great, that hath chukkim and mishpatim tzaddikim as all this torah, which I set before you today?

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Cross References

Numbers 23:9For from the top of the rocks I see him, 1 and from the heights I behold him; see, 1 the people shall live apart, 1 and shall not be reckoned among the Goyim. 1

Deuteronomy 5:26O that there were such a lev in them, that they would fear Me, and be shomer mitzvot over all My mitzvot always, that it might be well with them, and with their banim l'olam!

2 Samuel 7:23And what Goy echad in ha'aretz is like Thy people, even like Yisroel, whom Elohim went to redeem for an Am for Himself, and to make Him a Shem, and to do for Thee hagedullah (the great thing) and nora'ot, for Thy land, before Thy people, which Thou redeemedst to Thee, from Mitzrayim, from the Goyim and their g-ds?

Psalms 46:1(For the one directing. Of the Bnei Korach. Al-alamot. + 46:1 after the manner of virgins, i.e., in the treble Shir) 1

Psalms 145:18[Koph] Karov (near) is Hashem unto all them that call upon Him, 1 to all that call upon Him in emes. 1

Isaiah 43:4Since thou wast precious in My sight, 1 thou hast been honored, and I have loved thee: 1 therefore will I give adam + 43:4 See Isa 53:8 in exchange for thee, 1 and people in exchange for thy nefesh. 1

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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