Deuteronomy 11:16

Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be befooled,—and ye turn aside and serve other gods, and bow down to them.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

15and I will give grass in thy field for thy cattle,—and thou shalt eat and be satisfied.

17So would the anger of Yahweh kindle upon you and he would shut up the heavens, that there should be no rain, and the ground, would not yield her increase,—so should ye perish speedily, from off the good land, which Yahweh is giving unto you.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:9Only take thou heed to thyself and keep thy soul diligently, so that thou forget not the things which thine own eyes have seen, and so that they go not out of thy heart, all the days of thy life,—but thou shalt make them known unto thy sons and unto thy sons’ sons:—

Deuteronomy 5:7Thou shalt not have other gods, besides me:

Deuteronomy 12:30take heed to thyself lest thou be thrust after them, after they have been destroyed from before thee,—and lest thou enquire after their gods, saying—In what manner, did these nations serve their gods, that, I too, may do likewise?

Deuteronomy 17:3yea hath gone, and served other gods, and bowed down unto them,—whether unto the sun or unto the moon or unto any of the host of the heavens which I have not commanded;

Deuteronomy 29:17and ye saw their disgusting images, and their manufactured gods,—the wood and the stone, the silver and the gold that are with them.)

Deuteronomy 30:17But, if thy heart shall turn away, and thou wilt, not hearken,—but shalt be drawn away, and shalt bow thyself down to 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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