Deuteronomy 11:16

Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away to serve other gods and worship them;

World English Bible Classic

In The King James Version

Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

In Context

15I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.

17and the LORD’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:9Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

Deuteronomy 5:7“You shall have no other gods before me.

Deuteronomy 12:30be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed from before you, and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”

Deuteronomy 17:3and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded,

Deuteronomy 29:17and you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were among them);

Deuteronomy 30:17But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them,

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 11:9-18

8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it; 9 And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey. 10 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:… Read the whole commentary →

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