But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them,
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But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them,
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But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
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But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
Cross-references (10)
Passages linked to Deuteronomy 30:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 1:32 For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
- 2 Timothy 4:4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.
- Hebrews 3:12 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
- Deuteronomy 17:17 He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
- Deuteronomy 29:18-28 lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison; and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry. Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky. Yahweh will set him apart for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law. The generation to come—your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land—will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick, that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath. Even all the nations will say, “Why has Yahweh done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?” Then men will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them. Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book. Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”
- 1 Samuel 12:25 But if you keep doing evil, you will be consumed, both you and your king.”
- 1 Kings 11:2 of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love.
- Proverbs 14:14 The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.
- John 3:19-21 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”
- Hebrews 12:25 See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 30:17 But if thine heart turn away, so…
Deu 30:17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
Ver. 17. But if thine heart turn away.] This is that death and evil. {Deu 30:15}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Drawn away, either by thy own evil mind, or…
Drawn away, either by thy own evil mind, or by the examples or persuasions of others.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But if thine heart turn away,.... From the true…
But if thine heart turn away,.... From the true God, and the right worship of him, and from his commands, statutes, and judgments:
so that thou wilt not hear; the voice of the Lord and obey it, or hearken to his laws, and do them:
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but shalt be drawn away; by an evil heart, and by the ill examples of others:
and worship other gods and serve them; the gods of the Gentiles, the idols of the people, besides the one living and true God, the God of Israel.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 17. But if thine heart turn away] Deu_29:18 (17);…
17. But if thine heart turn away] Deu_29:18 (17); for drawn away see Deu_4:19, Deu_13:13 (14); for worship and serve see on Deu_4:19.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain
Deu_4:19.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
General Information:
Moses continues to speak to the Israelites as if they were one man, so the words "you" and "your" here are singular. (See: Forms of You)
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if your heart turns away ... but instead are drawn away and bow down to other gods and worship them
Here "heart" refers to the whole person. This can be stated in active form. AT: "if you stop being loyal to God ... and the people living in the land convince you to bow down and worship other gods" (See: Synecdoche and Active or Passive)
to you today that you ... you will not prolong your days
Moses speaks to the Israelites as a group. (See: Forms of You)
prolong your days
Long days are a metaphor for a long life. See how you translated these words in Deuteronomy 4:26. AT: "be able to live a long time" (See: Metaphor)
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heart
turn
bow
false god
worship
perish
Jordan River
possess
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