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Deuteronomy 4:3

in Deuteronomy 4

Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal-peor; for all the men that followed Baal-peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed them from the midst of thee.

KJV

Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal–peor: for all the men that followed Baal–peor, the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you.

This verse in Deuteronomy 4

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baalpeor,.... Because of the idolatry the people of Israel fell into by worshipping that idol, being drawn into it by the daughters of Moab and Midian, through the counsel of Balaam, with whom they committed fornication; which led them to the other sin, and both highly provoking to God.

This site's exposition

Your eyes have seen what the LORD did

on Deuteronomy 4:3-4

Moses chooses the most recent judgment, Baal of Peor in Numbers 25, so the evidence is the people's own memory. Those who "held fast to the LORD your God" are the survivors, "alive to this day, every one of you."

The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • עֵֽינֵיכֶם֙own eyes your

    ʾeineikhemH5869 →887 times

  • הָֽרֹאֹ֔ת[are] the [ones which] saw

    harootH7200 →1300 times

  • אֵ֛ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־[that] which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • עָשָׂ֥הhe did

    ʾasahH6213 →2628 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • בְּבַ֣עַלat Baal

    bevaalH1187 →12 times

  • פְּע֑וֹרPeor

    peorH1187 →12 times

  • כִּ֣יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • כָל־every

    khol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָאִ֗ישׁ<the> person

    haishH376 →1663 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֤רwho

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • הָלַךְ֙he walked

    halakhH1980 →1546 times

  • אַחֲרֵ֣יafter

    ʾachareiH310 →715 times

  • בַֽעַל־Baal

    vaal-H1187 →12 times

  • פְּע֔וֹרPeor

    peorH1187 →12 times

  • הִשְׁמִיד֛וֹhe destroyed him

    hishmidoH8045 →90 times

  • יְהוָ֥הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָGod your

    ʾeloheikhaH430 →2601 times

  • מִקִּרְבֶּֽךָ׃from midst your

    mikirbechaH7130 →227 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Numbers 31:16

    “Look, these women caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to turn unfaithfully against the LORD at Peor, so that the plague struck the congregation of the LORD.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 25:1–9

      While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,

    • 2 Peter 2:15

      They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.

    • Revelation 2:14

      But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food…

    • Joshua 22:17

      Was not the sin of Peor enough for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day? It even brought a plague upon the congregation of the LORD.

    • Numbers 24:14

      Now I am going back to my people, but come, let me warn you what this people will do to your people in the days to come.”

  • Through

    Joshua 22:17

    Was not the sin of Peor enough for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day? It even brought a plague upon the congregation of the LORD.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 4:3–4

      Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Psalms 106:28–29

      They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

  • Through

    Numbers 26:64

    Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 2:14–15

      The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had…

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.