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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Deu 4:17 — The likeness of any beast that [is] on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
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In these verses there is an evident allusion to the idolatrous worship in Egypt. Among the Egyptians, almost everything in nature was the object of their idolatry; among beasts were oxen, heifers, sheep, goats, lions, dogs, monkeys, and cats; among birds, the ibis, crane, and hawk; among reptiles, the crocodile, serpents, frogs, flies, and beetles; all the fish of the Nile, and the Nile itself; besides the sun, moon, planets, stars, fire, light, air, darkness, and night. These are all included in the very circumstantial prohibition in the text, and very forcibly in the general terms of Exd 20:4, the reason of which prohibition becomes self-evident, when the various objects of Egyptian idolatry are considered. Rom 1:23 |
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Exd 20:4 |
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth: |
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And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Deuteronomy 4:17," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Deu/4/17.html>.
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