Deuteronomy 4:1-8

Enforcement of the Impending Legislation

The main purpose of the discourse, the enforcement of the Laws about to be given, for on the practice of these depends Israel's survival in the Land (Deuteronomy 4:1 f.) let them remember Ba-al-Pe-or! (Deuteronomy 4:3 f.) as well as their wisdom and fame as a people (Deuteronomy 4:5 f.); what other has such a God or such laws? (Deuteronomy 4:7 f.). Deuteronomy 4:1 closely joins with the preceding Deuteronomy 1:6 to Deuteronomy 3:29, which indeed requires some such practical conclusion as is provided in Deuteronomy 4:1-4, and the unity of these vv. with Deuteronomy 1:6 to Deuteronomy 3:29 is generally recognised, but as we shall see there is no reason to doubt that Deuteronomy 4:5 also belong to that unity.