Deuteronomy 4:35
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You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.
Commentaries
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Israel was made to see all this, that it might know that Jehovah was God (האלהים, the God, to whom the name of elohim rightfully belonged), and there was none else beside Him (cf. Deu 4:39, Deu 32:39; Isa 45:5-6).
Open source ↗In this chapter we have, I. A most earnest and pathetic exhortation to obedience, both in general, and in some particular instances, backed with a great variety of very pressing arguments, repeated again and again, and set before them in the most moving and affectionate manner imaginable (v. 1-40). II. The appointing of the cities of refuge on that side Jordan (Deu 4:41-43). III. The particular description of the place where Moses delivered the following repetition of the law (Deu 4:44, etc.).
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For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.
There is no one holy like the LORD. Indeed, there is no one besides You! And there is no Rock like our God.
I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God but Me. I will equip you for battle, though you have not known Me,
Know therefore this day and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.
Do not tremble or fear. Have I not told you and declared it long ago? You are My witnesses! Is there any God but Me? There is no other Rock; I know not one.”
May they know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, are Most High over all the earth.
Thus says the LORD, the King and Redeemer of Israel, the LORD of Hosts: “I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God but Me.
Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?