申命记 4:1

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

勸人民遵行　神的律例“以色列人哪，現在你們要聽我向來教訓你們遵行的律例和典章，使你們可以活著，可以進去得著耶和華你們列祖的　神賜給你們的地作產業。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
以 色 列 人 哪 ， 现 在 我 所 教 训 你 们 的 律 例 典 章 ， 你 们 要 听 从 遵 行 ， 好 叫 你 们 存 活 ， 得 以 进 入 耶 和 华 ─ 你 们 列 祖 之 　 神 所 赐 给 你 们 的 地 ， 承 受 为 业 。

Contextual Overview

¹ Now, Israel, listen to the laws and commands I will teach you. Obey them so that you will live and so that you will go over and take the land the Lord , the God of your ancestors, is giving to you. ² Don't add to these commands, and don't leave anything out, but obey the commands of the Lord your God that I give you. ³ You have seen for yourselves what the Lord did at Baal Peor, how the Lord your God destroyed everyone among you who followed Baal in Peor. ⁴ But all of you who continued following the Lord your God are still alive today. ⁵ Look, I have taught you the laws and rules the Lord my God commanded me. Now you can obey the laws in the land you are entering, in the land you will take. ⁶ Obey these laws carefully, in order to show the other nations that you have wisdom and understanding. When they hear about these laws, they will say, "This great nation of Israel is wise and understanding." ⁷ No other nation is as great as we are. Their gods do not come near them, but the Lord our God comes near when we pray to him. ⁸ And no other nation has such good teachings and commands as those I am giving to you today. ⁹ But be careful! Watch out and don't forget the things you have seen. Don't forget them as long as you live, but teach them to your children and grandchildren. ¹⁰ Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Mount Sinai. He said to me, "Bring the people together so I can tell them what I have to say. Then they will respect me as long as they live in the land, and they will teach these things to their children."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

unto the statutes: Statutes, every thing that concerned morals and the rites and ceremonies of religion; judgments, all matters of civil right and wrong. Deuteronomy 4:8, Deuteronomy 4:45, Deuteronomy 5:1, Deuteronomy 6:1, Deuteronomy 6:2, Deuteronomy 8:1, Deuteronomy 11:1, Deuteronomy 11:32, Leviticus 19:37, Leviticus 20:8, Leviticus 22:31, Psalms 105:45, Psalms 119:4, Ezekiel 11:20, Ezekiel 36:27, Ezekiel 37:24, Matthew 28:20, Luke 1:6, John 15:14

that ye may: Leviticus 18:5, Ezekiel 20:11, Ezekiel 20:21, Romans 10:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:15 - The Lord Exodus 12:50 - as the Lord Exodus 18:20 - teach Exodus 24:3 - all the judgments Exodus 34:11 - Observe Exodus 40:16 - according Leviticus 18:4 - General Leviticus 18:26 - keep Deuteronomy 2:29 - into the land Deuteronomy 4:5 - General Deuteronomy 4:40 - keep Deuteronomy 5:31 - General Deuteronomy 5:32 - ye shall not Deuteronomy 6:24 - he might Deuteronomy 7:1 - greater Deuteronomy 7:11 - General Deuteronomy 12:1 - the statutes Deuteronomy 16:20 - live Deuteronomy 26:16 - This day Deuteronomy 27:1 - Keep all Joshua 3:9 - Hear the words Joshua 22:5 - take Judges 6:27 - and did Judges 18:10 - God hath 1 Kings 2:3 - statutes 1 Kings 8:58 - his commandments 2 Kings 9:1 - Ramothgilead 1 Chronicles 28:8 - that ye may Nehemiah 1:7 - the commandments Job 22:22 - receive Psalms 147:19 - his statutes Ezekiel 18:9 - walked Ezekiel 20:19 - walk Mark 4:3 - Hearken Romans 2:13 - For not

Cross-References

Genesis 3:15
I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your descendants and her descendants will be enemies. One of her descendants will crush your head, and you will bite his heel."

Genesis 4:25
Adam had sexual relations with his wife Eve again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth and said, "God has given me another child. He will take the place of Abel, who was killed by Cain."

Genesis 5:29
Lamech named his son Noah and said, "He will comfort us in our work, which comes from the ground the Lord has cursed."

Numbers 31:17
Kill all the Midianite boys, and kill all the Midianite women who have had sexual relations.

1 John 3:12
Do not be like Cain who belonged to the Evil One and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because the things Cain did were evil, and the things his brother did were good.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments,.... The laws of God, moral, ceremonial, and judicial, which they are exhorted to attend to and obey, in consideration of the great and good things the Lord had done for them, ever since they came from Horeb, where they were given them; such as providing for them, and feeding them in the wilderness, preserving them from every hurtful thing, and delivering their enemies into their hands, the two kings of the Amorites, which they are put in mind of in the preceding chapters; hence this begins with "therefore hearken"; for nothing is a greater incentive to obedience than the kindness and goodness of God:

which I teach you for to do that ye may live; the law was taught by Moses, but the Gospel of grace and truth by Jesus Christ; and it was taught by him, as well as it was to be hearkened to by them, in order to yield obedience to it; for not bare hearing, but doing the law, is the principal thing of any avail; and which was to be done, that they might live; not a spiritual and eternal life, which are not by the works of the law, but are had only from Christ, through his grace and righteousness; but a corporeal life, and a comfortable enjoyment of the blessings of it, and particularly that that might be continued to them:

and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you; the land of Canaan, which the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, had promised to give to their posterity, and which they were to hold by their obedience to his laws.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The general entreaty contained in this chapter is pointed by special mention and enforcement of the fundamental principles of the whole covenant Deuteronomy 4:9-40, the spiritual nature of the Deity, His exclusive right to their allegiance, His abhorrence of idolatry in every form, His choice of them for His elect people. Compare further Moses’ third and last address, Deut. 27–30.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER IV

Exhortations to obedience, 1.

Nothing to be added to or taken from the testimonies of God, 2.

The people are exhorted to recollect how God had destroyed the

ungodly among them, 3;

and preserved those who were faithful, 4.

The excellence of the Divine law, 5, 6.

No nation in the world could boast of any such statutes,

judgments, c., 7, 8.

They are exhorted to obedience by the wonderful manifestations

of God in their behalf, 9-13.

Moses exhorts them to beware of idolatry, and to make no

likeness of any thing in heaven or earth as an object of

adoration, 14-20.

He informs them that he must die in that land as God had refused

to let him go into the promised land, being angry with him on

their account, 21, 22.

Repeats his exhortation to obedience, 23, 24.

Predicts the judgments of God against them, should they turn to

idolatry, 25-28.

Promises of God's mercy to the penitent, 29-31.

The grand and unparalleled privileges of the Israelites, 32-40.

Moses severs three cities on the east side of Jordan for cities

of refuge, 41, 42.

Their names, 43.

When and where Moses gave these statutes and judgments to

Israel, 44-49.

NOTES ON CHAP IV

Verse Deuteronomy 4:1. Hearken - unto the statutes — Every thing that concerned the rites and ceremonies of religion judgments - all that concerned matters of civil right and wrong.