Numbers 15:39

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:

Remember

Ye seek not

Go a whoring

James 4:4

General references

Deuteronomy 6:8

Bible References

Remember

And it will be as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes so that the law of Yahweh will be in your mouth, that with a strong hand Yahweh brought you out from Egypt.

And these words that I am commanding you {today} shall be on your heart.

"And you shall put these, my words, on your heart and on your inner self, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be as an emblem between your eyes.

My child, do not forget my instruction, and may your heart guard my commands.

Ye seek not

And then when he hears the words of this oath, then {he will assure himself} in his heart, {saying}, '{Safety shall be mine even though I go in the stubbornness of my heart},' thereby destroying the well-watered [land] [along] with the parched.

If my steps have turned aside from the way, and my heart has walked after my eyes, and my hand has clung to a spot,

He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be saved.

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth! Follow the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes-- but know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things.

but they went after the stubbornness of their heart, and after the Baals, which their ancestors taught them."

And your fugitives will remember me among the nations [to] which they were taken captive, that I was shattered by {their adulterous heart} which departed from me, and by {their adulterous eyes} which [went] after their idols, and they will feel loathing {for themselves}, for the evil that they did, for all of their detestable things.

Go a whoring

lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they prostitute [themselves] after their gods, and they sacrifice to their gods, and they invite you, and you eat their sacrifice,

For indeed, [those] distancing themselves from you will be ruined. You destroy each who abandons you for harlotry.

And they became unclean by their works, and were unfaithful in their deeds.

Plead with your mother, plead-- because she [is] not my wife, and I [am] not her husband. Let her put away her whoring {from before her}, and her adultery from between her breasts.

Adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes [himself] an enemy of God.

General references

And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as an emblem between your eyes.