Teks -- Deuteronomy 4:28 (NET)

4:28 There you will worship gods made by human hands– wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.

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Wesley: Deu 4:28 - Ye shall serve Gods

You shall be compelled by men, and given up by me to idolatry. So that very thing which was your choice, shall be your punishment: it being just and usual for God to punish one sin by giving men up to another.

JFB: Deu 4:28 - there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands

The compulsory measures of their tyrannical conquerors would force them into idolatry, so that their choice would become their punishment.

Clarke: Deu 4:28 - There ye shall serve gods - wood and stone

There ye shall serve gods - wood and stone - This was also true of the Israelites, not only in their captivities, but also in their own land. And it may now be literally the case with the ten tribes who were carried away captive by the Assyrians, and of whose residence no man at present knows any thing with certainty. That they still exist there can be no doubt; but they are now, most probably, so completely incorporated with the idolaters among whom they dwell, as to be no longer distinguish able: yet God can gather them.

Defender: Deu 4:28 - ye shall serve gods

This is a prophecy remarkably fulfilled in later ages. Not only were the Israelites scattered among the nations of the world, but great multitudes of these apostates abandoned the faith of their fathers in favor of many forms - ancient and modern - of evolutionary pantheism. Modern Reform Judaism, for example, is little more than evolutionary humanism."

TSK: Deu 4:28 - ye shall // neither see

ye shall : Deu 28:36, Deu 28:64; 1Sa 26:19; Jer 16:13; Eze 20:32, Eze 20:39; Act 7:42

neither see : Psa 115:4-7, Psa 135:15, Psa 135:16; Isa 44:9, Isa 45:20, Isa 46:7; Jer 10:3, Jer 10:9

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Poole: Deu 4:28

i.e. Idols. You shall be compelled by men, and given up by me to idolatry. So that very thing which was your choice shall be your punishment; it being just and usual for God to punish one sin by giving them up to another, as is manifest from Rom 1:24,25 .

Gill: Deu 4:28 - And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone // which neither see, nor hear, nor taste, nor smell

And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone,.... Idols made by men, cut out of wood and stone; these they should be enticed into the service of, or compelled to serve; which was still more brutish and stupid than to worship the sun, moon, and stars, which were not the works of men's hand, but the glorious works of the eternal God. But since in their captivities they were not subject to idolatry, but were cured of it thereby, another sense of the words is given by some, as by Onkelos and Jonathan, who paraphrase the words of serving the people, that serve idols; but what follows confirms the first sense:

which neither see, nor hear, nor taste, nor smell; senseless things, which have none of the senses of seeing, hearing, and smelling, nor the faculty of eating, which they need not to support life, of which they are destitute; and therefore it must be monstrous stupidity to worship such lifeless, senseless, objects; see Psa 115:4.