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But if you shall turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
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A Complete Turning Away
Commentators explain that the Hebrew phrase for “turn away” signifies a complete and total rejection of God. The warning is not about minor stumbles or individual sins, but a wholesale national defection to worship other gods. This was a warning against utter apostasy, not momentary failure.
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1 Kings
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18th Century
Presbyterian
At all turn - Rather, If ye shall wholly turn from following Me (see 2 Chronicles 7:19). The Israelites were not to be …
19th Century
Anglican
And the Lord said to him. —This vision of the Lord presents a remarkable contrast with that recorded in [Reference 1 Kings 6:11-13…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But if you shall at all turn from following me, you or your children From my worship,…
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