Deuteronomy 13:6

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Summary

If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

Thy brother

Which is

1 Samuel 18:1

1 Samuel 20:17

2 Samuel 1:26

Entice

Which thou

General references

Exodus 32:21

Bible References

Thy brother

In one of the cities Jehovah your God is giving you, there may be a man or woman among you who is doing what Jehovah considers evil. This person may be disregarding the conditions of Jehovah's covenant.

The kindest and most sensitive man among you will become stingy toward his brother, the wife he loves, and the children he still has left.

Then Sarai said to Abram: You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my servant in your arms; she knows she is pregnant and she despises me. May Jehovah judge between you and me.

Why will you be intimate with an immoral woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

A man with friends must be friendly! A friend sticks closer than a brother.

Do not put your faith in your neighbor. Do not trust a friend! Guard your lips from her who lies in your bosom (is your intimate companion).

But he answered: Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?

From now on we know no man according to the flesh: even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no longer.

Which is

David finished talking to Saul. Jonathan became David's closest friend. He loved David as much as he loved himself.

Once again Jonathan made David promise to love him. Jonathan loved David as much as he loved himself.

I grieve for you, my brother Jonathan. You were dear to me! How wonderful was your love for me. It was better than the love of women.

Entice

and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand,

This occurred because of the false brothers brought in secretly. They came to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus. This was so they might bring us into bondage.

We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error.

I tell you this: Do not let anyone deceive you with false arguments, no matter how good they seem to be.

There arose false prophets among the people. There will be false teachers among you! They will privately bring in destructive heresies (contrary doctrines), denying even the Master who bought them. They bring swift destruction on themselves.

I write you these things concerning those who would lead you astray.

The great dragon was thrown down, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was hurled down to the earth, and his angels with him.

And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles he had power to do in the sight of the beast. He says to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast that had the wound by a sword and yet lives.

He hurled him into the bottomless pit, and shut it and sealed it over him. He could not deceive the nations anymore till the thousand years ended. After that he must be let loose for a little while.

Which thou

They made God furious because they worshiped foreign gods and angered him (stirred up his zeal) because they worshiped worthless idols.

They forsook Jehovah and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

There was war in the land when the Israelites chose new gods. Of the forty thousand men in Israel, did anyone carry shield or spear?

Once again the Israelites did evil against Jehovah by worshiping the Baals and the Astartes. They also worshiped the gods of Syria, of Sidon, of Moab, of Ammon, and of the Philistines. They abandoned Jehovah and stopped worshiping him.

Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Milcom, the disgusting god of the Ammonites.

The men of Babylon made Succothbenoth and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

General references

Moses asked Aaron: What did these people do to harm you? Why did you make them sin in this terrible way?