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Deuteronomy 4:16
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14 And athe Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might1 observe them in the land which you cross over to possess.  

Beware of Idolatry

15 a“Take careful heed to yourselves, for you saw no bform when the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,  
16 lest you aact corruptly and bmake for yourselves a carved image in the1 form of any figure: cthe likeness of male or female,  
17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth or the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,
18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground or the likeness of any fish that is in the water beneath the earth.
19 And take heed, lest you alift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, ball the host of heaven, you feel driven to cworship them and serve them, which the Lord your God has1 given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage.  
20 But the Lord has taken you and abrought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be bHis people, an inheritance, as you are this day.  
21 Furthermore athe Lord was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that bI would not cross over the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.  
22 But aI must die in this land, bI must not cross over the Jordan; but you shall cross over and1 possess cthat good land.  
23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He made with you, aand make for yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which the Lord your God has forbidden you.  
24 For athe Lord your God is a consuming fire, ba jealous God.  
25 “When you beget children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, and ado evil in the sight of the Lord your God to provoke Him to anger,  
26 aI call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess; you will not1 prolong your days in it, but will be utterly destroyed.  
27 And the Lord awill scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you.  
Book Notes:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Book Notes

Deuteronomy

DEUTERONOMY, the second law, a title which plainly shows what is the object of this book, namely, a recapitulation of the law. It was given in the form of public addresses to the people; and as Moses spoke in the prospect of his speedy removal, he enforced obedience to it by many forcible appeals to the Israelites, concerning their long and varied experience both of the mercies and the judgments of God. The minute notices of the heathen people with whom they had come in contact, but who afterward disappeared from the pages of history, as well as the accounts of the fertility and products of Canaan, and the counsels respecting the conquest of that country, fix the date of this book and the time of its composition by the hand of Moses. The close, however, must have been added by another; and, indeed, it is supposed by some to have formed the original preface to the Book of Joshua.

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