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Deuteronomy 13:18

in Deuteronomy 13

because you obey the LORD your God, keeping all His commandments I am giving you today and doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

when thou shalt hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah thy God.

KJV

When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord thy God.

This verse in Deuteronomy 13

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Nothing devoted to destruction shall cling to your hands

on Deuteronomy 13:17-18

The devoted thing is the spoil of verse 16, and Joshua 7:1 shows Achan taking of it and the LORD's anger burning against all Israel. The chapter that ordered three executions ends on mercy, compassion and multiplying, the oath sworn to the fathers at Genesis 22:17.

This site's exposition

because you obey the LORD

Verse 18 states the condition for the mercy of verse 17, obedience to every commandment given that day. The chapter began at verse 3 with the words Israel must refuse to hear and ends on the voice Israel must obey. Clarke calls the whole trial a test of faith.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God,.... Not only in this case, but in all others: to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day: the repetition of which he made unto them, and enjoined the observance of them in the name of the Lord: to do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord thy God; which they would do, if they kept the commandments of the Lord, which are holy, just, and good, and must be right in his sight because commanded by him.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Certain men, the children of Belial--lawless, designing demagogues (Jud 19:22; 25:25), who abused their influence to withdraw the inhabitants of the city to idol-worship.

The words behind it

18 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.

  • כִּ֣יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • תִשְׁמַ֗עyou will listen

    tishma'H8085 →1159 times

  • בְּקוֹל֙to [the] voice of

    bekolH6963 →506 times

  • יְהוָ֣הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָGod your

    ʾeloheikhaH430 →2601 times

  • לִשְׁמֹר֙to keep

    lishmorH8104 →468 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • מִצְוֹתָ֔יוcommandments his

    mitzvotavH4687 →181 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֛רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • אָנֹכִ֥יI

    ʾanokhiH595 →359 times

  • מְצַוְּךָ֖[am] commanding you

    metzavekhaH6680 →494 times

  • הַיּ֑וֹםthis day

    haiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • לַעֲשׂוֹת֙to do

    laasotH6213 →2628 times

  • הַיָּשָׁ֔רthe right

    haiyasharH3477 →119 times

  • בְּעֵינֵ֖יin [the] eyes of

    beeineiH5869 →887 times

  • יְהוָ֥הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃ סGod your

    ʾeloheikhaH430 →2601 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

    Matthew 7:21

    Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.

    it leads to

    • Luke 11:28

      But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Romans 2:13

      For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.

    • Luke 6:46

      Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I say?

    • James 1:22

      Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

    • Titus 1:16

      They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.

  • Through

    Matthew 7:24

    Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

    it leads to

    • Luke 6:47–49

      I will show you what he is like who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them:

    • John 13:17

      If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

    • 1 Corinthians 3:10–11

      By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds.

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 Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.