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Psalms 81:9
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You must never have a foreign god; you must not bow down before a false god.
There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
There shall be no strange god in you; Neither shall you worship any foreign god.
You must not have foreign gods; you must not worship any false god.
There must be no other god among you. You must not worship a foreign god.
There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
There shall be no strange god in you, Neither shall you worship any foreign god.
"Let there be no strange god among you, Nor shall you worship any foreign god.
There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
Israel, if thou herist me, a fresche God schal not be in thee, and thou schalt not worschipe an alien god.
There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.
Don't worship foreign gods or bow down to gods you know nothing about.
There shall no strange god be in thee; Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.
There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.
"‘Hear, my people, while I give you warning! Isra'el, if you would only listen to me!
There shall no strange god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.
Don't worship any of the false gods that the foreigners worship.
Hear, O My people, and I will admonish thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto Me!
There shall no strange God be in thee: neither shalt thou worship any strange God.
Let there be no strange god among you. Do not worship any false god.
There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
Let there bee no strange god in thee, neither worship thou any strange god.
There shall be no strange god in you; neither shall you worship any strange god.
You must never worship another god.
There shall not be, within thee, a foreign GOD, - Neither shalt thou bow down to a strange GOD:
(80-10) there shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god.
There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
If thou wylt hearken vnto me, there shall be no straunge God in thee: neither shalt thou geue worship to any other Lorde beside me.
there shall be no new god in thee; neither shalt thou worship a strange god.
There must not be a strange god among you;you must not bow down to a foreign god.
There shall be no strange god in you, Neither shall you worship any foreign god.
There shall be no strange god among you, and you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
There shall be no strange god among you; and you shall not worship a foreign god.
There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god.
Sela. Heare o my people, for I assure the o Israel, yf thou wilt herken vnto me:
"There shall be no strange god among you; Nor shall you worship a foreign god.
There shall be no foreign god among you; Nor shall you worship any foreign god.
"Let there be no strange god among you; Nor shall you worship any foreign god.
Let there be no strange god among you;And you shall not worship a foreign god.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
There shall: Exodus 20:3-5, 1 Corinthians 8:5, 1 Corinthians 8:6
strange: Deuteronomy 6:14, Deuteronomy 32:12, Isaiah 43:12, Malachi 2:11
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 17:13 - testified Ezekiel 20:19 - the Lord Hosea 13:4 - I am
Gill's Notes on the Bible
There shall no strange god be in thee,.... Or in the midst of thee, owned and worshipped as God; or in thine heart, for whatever engrosses the affection, or a man puts his trust and confidence in, that he makes his god, and is a strange one: thus, if any friend or relation, father or mother, wife or children, are loved more than God, they are set up as such in his place; thus the epicure, that seeks the gratification of his carnal lusts, makes his belly his god; and the covetous man his money, in which he trusts, and therefore is called an idolater; and the self-righteous man his righteousness, on which he depends for salvation: hence we read of idols set up in the heart, from which they are disengaged in conversion, and kept from,
Ezekiel 14:7
neither shall thou worship any strange god; only the Lord God is to be worshipped, Matthew 28:19 and there is but one God; though this is to be understood not to the exclusion of the Son and Spirit, who are with the Father the one God, and to be worshipped equally with him, and are; see Matthew 28:19.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
There shall no strange god be in thee - Worshipped by thee; or recognized and regarded as a god. This was a condition of his favor and friendship. Compare Deuteronomy 32:12; Isaiah 43:12. The word here rendered “strange” - זר zār - has reference to one of a foreign nation; and the meaning is, that they were not to worship or adore the gods that were worshipped by foreigners. This was a fundamental law of the Hebrew commonwealth.
Neither shalt thou worship any strange god - The Hebrew word here is different - נכר nêkâr - but means substantially the same thing. The allusion is to gods worshipped by foreign nations.
