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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 4:9,10

Only take heed Their only danger was, lest they should grow careless and unmindful of all the wonderful things that God had done for them; for which reason he would have every Israelite to make these weighty concerns the subject of his most frequent study and intense meditation. Especially the day When God delivered the law from mount Sinai to them, with such awful appearances of divine majesty. Thou stoodest S ome of them stood there in their own persons, though then they were but young; the rest in the loins of their parents.

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See also Deuteronomy 4:9,10 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 4:9. _ONLY TAKE HEED TO THYSELF_] Be circumspect and watchful. _KEEP THY SOUL DILIGENTLY_] Be mindful of thy eternal interests. Whatever becomes of the _body_, take care of the _sou...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    A full stop should end Deuteronomy 4:9; and Deuteronomy 4:10 begin, At the time that thou stoodest, etc. Deuteronomy 4:11 then ye came near, etc. Moses, exhorting to heedful observance of the La

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. HEARKEN, O ISRAEL! CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Obedience demanded (Deuteronomy 4:1)_ 2. The covenant to be observed (Deuteronomy 4:9) 3. Take heed unto yourselves lest ye forget (Deuteronomy 4:15

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    SECOND PART OF MOSES-' FIRST ADDRESS. This contains exhortations to obedience from motives of self-interest and of gratitude to Yahweh, and forms an apparent logical unity with Deuteronomy 1:6 to Deut...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TAKE HEED. Note the three occurrences in this chapter (verses: Deuteronomy 4:9; Deuteronomy 4:15; Deuteronomy 4:23). THY SOUL. thyself. Hebrew thy _nephesh_....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Against Idolatry The truth that is beneath the whole Law: God is revealed not in images, but by words and deeds of redemption. Warned to lay their experience to heart (Deuteronomy 4:9), Israel are re...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Only_ Not restriction to one point, but emphasis on the principle of the whole of the Law. For the use of this restrictive adverb so frequent in D see on Deuteronomy 10:15. _take heed to thyself_ Fo...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 190 MOSES’ SOLEMN CHARGE TO ISRAEL Deuteronomy 4:7. What nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for? And what n...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. THE TEMPTATION TO FORGET GOD'S UNIQUE REVELATION (Deuteronomy 4:9-31) a. GOD APPEARED AT HOREB BY WORD, NOT BY PHYSICAL FORM (Deuteronomy 4:9-14) 9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul dil...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND WHAT NATION IS THERE SO GREAT, THAT HATH STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS SO RIGHTEOUS AS ALL THIS LAW, WHICH I SET BEFORE YOU THIS DAY?_ No JFB commentary on these verses....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    EXHORTATIONS TO OBEDIENCE This chapter contains the practical part of the discourse. Having briefly rehearsed the experiences of the Israelites in the wilderness up to the present point, Moses closes...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    FIRST DISCOURSE (DEUTERONOMY 1:14 TO DEUTERONOMY 4:43) The long sojourn in the wilderness is now drawing to a close. The Israelites are encamped in the Plains of Moab within sight of the Promised Land...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 4 V1 ‘Therefore, everyone in *Israel, listen to the rules and the laws that I will teach to you...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    ONLY TAKE HEED TO THYSELF. — The exhortation contained in the following verses lays special emphasis on one point — the worship of the invisible Jehovah without images. This more than anything else wo...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    רַ֡ק הִשָּׁ֣מֶר לְךָ֩ וּ שְׁמֹ֨ר נַפְשְׁךָ֜ מ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “TAKE HEED TO THYSELF” Deuteronomy 3:23; Deuteronomy 4:1 Strong faith was required by the two and a half tribes to leave their wives and children while they went to succor their brethren. But God's c...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    On the ground of this survey Moser exhorted the people to be obedient, His appeal was based on the greatness of their God and the perfection of His law. Their whole existence as a nation centered arou...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Only take heed to thyself, and (h) keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy so...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Words. Hebrew also, "things." (Haydock) --- Both sacred and profane authors use the term of seeing, to denote any of the senses, ver. 12. Eschylus (in Prometh.) says, "you shall neither see the form...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    It is refreshing to see, that while both Testaments enjoin the same precept, of keeping the soul diligently, (see Jude 1:21.) the apostle had it in commission to tell the church, that the LORD is the...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be called an abstract typical system. That is, we see in them a number of institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which wa...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _LEST THOU FORGET!_ ‘Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life.’ D...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    9._Only take heed to thyself _The same particle, רק, _rak, _of which I have just spoken, is used here, and its meaning in this place is, as if Moses had said, that this _only _remained; unless it is p...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1, 2, 3, AND 4. Let us examine a little more closely these Chapter s, which shew the pains the Spirit took, to set before the eyes of the people all the moti...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    ONLY TAKE HEED TO THYSELF,.... To walk according to this law, and not swerve from it: AND KEEP THY SOUL DILIGENTLY; from the transgressions and breaches of it: LEST THOU FORGET THE THINGS WHICH THIN...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons,...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 An Exhortation to obedience. 41 Moses appointeth the three Cities of refuge on that side Iordan. 1 NOWE therefore hearken, O Israel, vnto the Statutes, and vnto the Iudgments which I teach you, fo...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Only take heed to thyself and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, the miracles and the many evidences of God's presence during the years of the wilderness...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Moses Reminds the People of the Law-Giving....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    MOSES INSISTS ON OBEDIENCE (vs.1-14) Because God had already blessed Israel and intended to bless them more greatly still. Moses urges them to "listen to the statutes and judgments" he is teaching th...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-23 The power and love of God to Israel are here made the ground and reason of a number of cautions and serious warnings; and although there is much reference to their national covenant, yet all may...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    Now therefore hearken O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgements which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 4:9 heed H8104 (H8734) diligently H3966 keep H8104 (H8798) yourself H5315 forget H7911 (H8799) thing

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THEY ARE FORTUNATE AMONG THE NATIONS BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY HAVE RECEIVED (DEUTERONOMY 4:6). This may be analysed as follows: a They are to keep (shamar) Yahweh's statutes and judgments and do them for...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Deuteronomy 4:9 In the business of life there are three parties concerned, three parties of whose existence it behoves us to be equally and intensely conscious. These three are God on the one hand, a...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The new generations taught the lessons of Sinai. Cities of refuge designated. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: The review of God's providences concerning us should quicken us and engage...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Deuteronomy 4:2. _Ye shall not add unto the word._ This would be to debase revelation, and treat the divine law as a defective production of man, that needed additions and retrenchments. Solon, the At...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen._ AN IMPORTANT ADMONITION I. In what respects we are bound to “take heed to” ourselve...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land._ MOSES’ DISCOURSE 1. In general it is...

  • The children's great texts of the Bible by James Hastings

    WHAT'S IN A KNOT? Lest thou forget. Deuteronomy 4:9. I wonder how many of you tie knots on your handkerchiefs to remind yourselves of something you particularly want to remember? Years ago, people d...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 4:9 MAKE THEM KNOWN. Each generation is responsible to instruct the next generation in the faith. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.—From the mention of what God had done for Israel, Moses passes to the obedience of the law. They were under deep obligation to keep it, and in doing so, consisted their wisdom, greatne...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION DEUTERONOMY 4:1 ADMONITIONS AND EXHORTATIONS. Moses, having presented to the people certain facts in their recent history which had in them a specially animating and encouraging tendency,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    NOW therefore (Deuteronomy 4:1) Moses is now making application. NOW therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and to the judgments, which I teach you, to do them, that you may live, and go in a...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 11:19; Deuteronomy 29:29; Deuteronomy 31:19; Deuteronomy 6:7;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    PARTING WORDS Deuteronomy 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is, perhaps, strange to some that we speak of the fourth chapter of Deuteronomy as "Parting words," yet the whole Book of Deuteronomy centers in t...

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