Berean BlueApp preview

Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 4:25

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Deuteronomy4:25

25 When thou shalt beget children, and childrens children, and shalt have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt your selves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:

Which words are here added either 1. As a caution. Your Idolatry, though possibly secretly and cunningly managed, will not be hid from him▪ he sees it, and he will punish it. Or 2. To aggravate their spiritual Whoredom as being committed in the sight and presence of their Lord and Husband, whose eye is more peculiarly upon them in all their wayes, than it is upon other people. Or, 3. By way of opposition unto mens judgment. Idolatry oft times seems good, and reasonable, and religious in the eyes of men, but, saith he▪ it is evil in the eyes of the Lord, whose judgment is most considerable.

Matthew Poole and continuators, Annotations upon the Holy Bible, Deuteronomy 4:25. Public domain.

Permanent link. Source edition.

Read Deuteronomy 4. Compare commentaries on this chapter.

Source and publication rights

Text Creation Partnership. Public domain; TCP unrestricted text and encoding. Source edition.

Berean Blue opens December 1, 2026. Explore this passage in the app preview.