Deuteronomy 17:3
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New International Version (©1984)
and contrary to my command has worshiped other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or the moon or the stars of the sky,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the heavenly host, which I have not commanded,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
by worshiping and bowing down to other gods, the sun, the moon, or the whole army of heaven. I have forbidden this.

King James Bible
And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

American King James Version
And has gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

American Standard Version
and hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

Bible in Basic English
By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders;

Douay-Rheims Bible
So as to go and serve strange gods, and adore them, the sun and the moon. and all the host of heaven, which I have not commanded:

Darby Bible Translation
and goeth and serveth other gods, and boweth down to them, either to the sun or to the moon, or to the whole host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

English Revised Version
and hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

Webster's Bible Translation
And hath gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

World English Bible
and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the army of the sky, which I have not commanded;

Young's Literal Translation
and he doth go and serve other gods, and doth bow himself to them, and to the sun, or to the moon, or to any of the host of the heavens, which I have not commanded --

Geneva Study Bible

And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not {c} commanded;

(c) By which he condemns all religion and serving of God which God has not commanded.

Wesley's Notes

17:3 The host of heaven - Those glorious creatures, which are to be admired as the wonderful works of God, but not to be set up in God's stead. By condemning the most specious of all idolaters, he intimates, how absurd a thing it is to worship stocks and stones, the works of men's hands. I have not commanded - That is, I have forbidden. Such negative expressions are emphatical.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

17:1-7 No creature which had any blemish was to be offered in sacrifice to God. We are thus called to remember the perfect, pure, and spotless sacrifice of Christ, and reminded to serve God with the best of our abilities, time, and possession, or our pretended obedience will be hateful to him. So great a punishment as death, so remarkable a death as stoning, must be inflicted on the Jewish idolater. Let all who in our day set up idols in their hearts, remember how God punished this crime in Israel.


Exodus 22:20 "He who sacrifices to any god, other than to the LORD alone, shall be utterly destroyed.
Job 31:26 If I have looked at the sun when it shone Or the moon going in splendor,
Jeremiah 7:22 "For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. (NASB ©1995)

Army Bow Boweth Bowing Command Commanded Contrary Either Heaven Heavenly Heavens Host Moon Orders Servant Serve Served Serveth Sky Stars Sun Whole Worshiped Worshipped Worshipping


And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

the sun De 4:19 2Ki 21:3 Job 31:26,27 Jer 8:2 Eze 8:16

which Jer 7:22,23,31 19:5 32:35

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