Deuteronomy 4:19
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
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The warning 'lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them' addresses the most pervasive alternative religion of the ancient world: astral worship, which attributed divine powers to the celestial bodies. The remarkable qualification — God 'hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven' the celestial bodies — has been read as allowing or even assigning astral religion to the nations while prohibiting it for Israel; more likely it acknowledges the created status of the stars as God's gifts, not gods to be worshipped. Isaiah 47:13-14 applies the same logic to Babylon's astrologers, declaring the heavens' inability to save the nation that trusted them. The New Testament's 'powers and principalities' theology (Colossians 2:8; Galatians 4:3, 9) may partly reflect this Old Testament concern about idolatrous orientation toward cosmic forces rather than their Creator.
Otras traducciones
and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, thou be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Jehovah thy God hath allotted unto all the peoples under the whole heaven.
`And lest thou lift up thine eyes towards the heavens, and hast seen the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of the heavens, and thou hast been forced, and hast bowed thyself to them, and served them, which Jehovah thy God hath apportioned to all the peoples under the whole heavens.
And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven.
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