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Deuteronomy 4:1-49

Remember Horeb

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Remember Horeb

Deuteronomy 4:1-49

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This song belongs to the Deuteronomy collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

Bible book
Deuteronomy
Collection
Deuteronomy
Musical styles
World Music
[Verse 1] Hear the statutes and live, do not add and do not take, Baal-peor had shown the cost when Israel chose the false. Wisdom would be visible before the nations looking on, For what other people had a God so near when they would call? [Pre-Chorus] Guard your soul and teach your children, Do not let the mountain leave your heart. [Chorus] Remember Horeb, fire and darkness, A voice without a form upon the height. No carved image, sun, or star could bear His likeness, The LORD alone is God in earth and sky. [Verse 2] He wrote the covenant on stone and drew them from the iron furnace, Moses warned that idols in the land would scatter them among the nations. Yet if exile turned their whole heart back to seek the LORD, Mercy would remember covenant and bring them near once more. [Bridge] What people heard a voice from fire and lived to tell the day? What nation came from nation through great terror, war, and signs? Heaven and earth had shown them there is no one else beside Him, So three refuge cities rose before the law was set again. [Final Chorus] Remember Horeb, fire and darkness, A voice without a form upon the height. No carved image, sun, or star could bear His likeness, The LORD alone is God in earth and sky. [Outro] The law stood east of Jordan, And memory guarded life.

Named in this songHorebMosesJordan

About the passage

Deuteronomy 4: A voice without an image, a covenant beyond exile

Moses turns the remembered past into a sustained argument for covenant faithfulness. Israel must neither add to nor subtract from the instruction, because life in the land depends on hearing and doing. Horeb becomes the controlling memory: the people heard a voice from the fire but saw no form, so no creature or heavenly body can supply a likeness God did not give. Moses can already imagine the disaster of idolatry, removal from the land, and scattering among nations, yet even that future is not beyond covenant mercy. From exile Israel may seek, return, and be heard because God will not forget the oath to the fathers. The chapter closes practically, with refuge cities east of Jordan and a fresh introduction to the law Moses will set before Israel.

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