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Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

keep thy soul: Deuteronomy 4:15, Deuteronomy 4:23, Proverbs 3:1, Proverbs 3:3, Proverbs 4:20-23, Luke 8:18, Hebrews 2:3, James 2:22

lest they: Joshua 1:18, Psalms 119:11, Proverbs 3:1-3, Proverbs 3:21, Proverbs 4:4, Proverbs 7:1, Hebrews 2:1, Revelation 3:3

teach them: Deuteronomy 6:7, Deuteronomy 11:19, Deuteronomy 29:29, Deuteronomy 31:19, Genesis 18:19, Exodus 13:8, Exodus 13:9, Exodus 13:14-16, Joshua 4:6, Joshua 4:7, Joshua 4:21, Psalms 34:11-16, Psalms 71:18, Psalms 78:3-8, Proverbs 1:8, Proverbs 4:1-13, Proverbs 23:26, Isaiah 38:19, Ephesians 6:4

Reciprocal: Exodus 10:2 - And that Exodus 19:4 - seen Exodus 19:12 - Take Exodus 23:13 - be circumspect Deuteronomy 4:16 - corrupt Deuteronomy 8:5 - consider Deuteronomy 11:16 - Take heed Deuteronomy 15:5 - General Joshua 22:5 - take Joshua 23:3 - And ye Joshua 23:11 - Take good Psalms 78:4 - We will Psalms 78:7 - not forget Psalms 111:4 - He hath Psalms 119:4 - General Proverbs 4:23 - Keep Proverbs 22:6 - a child Isaiah 42:20 - Seeing Isaiah 44:21 - Remember Jeremiah 17:21 - Take Luke 17:3 - heed Galatians 3:19 - It was added Hebrews 3:9 - and Hebrews 12:5 - ye have forgotten Hebrews 12:15 - Looking

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Only take heed to thyself,.... To walk according to this law, and not swerve from it:

and keep thy soul diligently; from the transgressions and breaches of it:

lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen; either the statutes and judgments set before them, and the circumstances of the delivery of them; or the punishment inflicted on the breakers of them; or the favours bestowed on those that observed them:

and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; out of thy mind and memory, and have no place in thy affections, through a neglect and disuse of them:

but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons; their children and grandchildren, that they may be trained up in them in their youth, and so not depart from them when grown up, and in years; see Deuteronomy 6:7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A full stop should end Deuteronomy 4:9; and Deuteronomy 4:10 begin, At the time that thou stoodest, etc. Deuteronomy 4:11 then ye came near, etc. Moses, exhorting to heedful observance of the Law, strives to renew the impressions of that tremendous scene which attended its promulgation at Sinai.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 4:9. Only take heed to thyself — Be circumspect and watchful.

Keep thy soul diligently — Be mindful of thy eternal interests. Whatever becomes of the body, take care of the soul.

Lest thou forget — God does his work that they may be had in everlasting remembrance; and he that forgets them, forgets his own mercies. Besides, if a man forget the work of God on his soul, he loses that work.

Lest they depart from thy heart — It is not sufficient to lay up Divine things in the memory, they must be laid up in the heart. Thy word have I hidden in my heart, says David, that I might not sin against thee. The life of God in the soul of man can alone preserve the soul to life everlasting; and this grace must be retained all the days of our life. When Adam fell, his condition was not meliorated by the reflection that he had been once in paradise; nor does it avail Satan now that he was once an angel of light. Those who let the grace of God depart from their hearts, lose that grace; and those who lose the grace, fall from the grace; and as some have fallen and risen no more, so may others; therefore, take heed to thyself, c. Were it impossible for men finally to fall from the grace of God, exhortations of this kind had never been given, because they would have been unnecessary, and God never does an unnecessary thing.

But teach them thy sons — If a man know the worth of his own soul, he will feel the importance of the salvation of the souls of his family. Those who neglect family religion, neglect personal religion if more attention were paid to the former, even among those called religious people, we should soon have a better state of civil society. On family religion God lays much stress; and no head of a family can neglect it without endangering the final salvation of his own soul. Genesis 18:32; Genesis 18:32, and Genesis 19:38; Genesis 19:38, and Deuteronomy 6:7; Deuteronomy 6:7.