4Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. …
Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)Moses is ordered to deliver the summary of the laws to all the congregation of the children of Israel (Lev. 19:2); not to Aaron and his sons only, but to all the people, for they were all concerned to know their duty. Even in the darker ages of the law, that religion could not be of God which boasted of ignorance as its mother. Moses must make known God’s statutes to all the congregation, and proc…
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