Deuteronomy 4:20

whereas you, hath Yahweh taken, and brought you forth out of a smelting-pot of iron, out of Egypt,—that ye might become his own inherited people as at this day.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.

In Context

19or lest thou shouldest lift up thine eyes towards the heavens and see the sun and the moon, and the stars—all the host of the heavens, and shouldest be seduced, and shouldest bow thyself down to them and he led to serve them,—the which Yahweh thy God hath assigned unto all the peoples under all the heavens;

21But, Yahweh shewed himself angry with me, for your sakes,—and sware that I should not pass over the Jordan, and that I should not enter into the good land, which, Yahweh thy God, is giving unto thee as an inheritance;

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Cross References

Exodus 19:5Now, therefore, if ye will, indeed hearken, to my voice, And keep my covenant, Then shall ye be mine as a treasure beyond all the peoples, For, mine, is all the earth;

Deuteronomy 9:29Yet, they, are thy people and thine inheritance,—whom thou hast brought forth with thy great strength, and with thy stretched-out arm.

1 Kings 8:51because, thy people and thine inheritance, they are,—whom thou didst bring forth out of Egypt, out of the midst of the smelting-pot of iron;

Psalms 33:12How happy the nation whose God is, Yahweh, The people he hath chosen as his own inheritance!

Isaiah 63:17Wherefore shouldst thou suffer us to wander O Yahweh, from thy ways? Wherefore shouldst thou let us harden our heart past revering thee? Return thou for the sake of Thy servants, The tribes thou thyself hast inherited.

Ephesians 1:18The eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that ye may know—what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

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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