Key Verse Spotlight
Deuteronomy 4:33 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Did {ever} people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?”
Deuteronomy 4:33
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
(For the LORD thy God {is} a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and {ask} from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been {any such thing} as this great thing {is}, or hath been heard like it?
Did {ever} people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
Or hath God assayed to go {and} take him a nation from the midst of {another} nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he {is} God; {there is} none else beside him.
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