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4Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 12:4

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

  • That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.

  • Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. …

  • Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

From those great original truths, That there is a God, and that there is but one God, arise those great fundamental laws, That that God is to be worshipped, and he only, and that therefore we are to have no other God before him: this is the first commandment, and the second is a guard upon it, or a hedge about it. To prevent a revolt to false gods, we are forbidden to worship the true God in such…

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