Contradictions and Paradoxes in Deuteronomy 4:4

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Deuteronomy 4:4 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Deuteronomy 4:4. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, people who stayed close to God and followed Him are safe and happy today. It's like when you hold on tightly to someone you trust, and they help you stay safe.

Deuteronomy 4:4: But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God [are] alive every one of you this day.

Contradiction with Deuteronomy 31:16

This verse suggests that the Israelites will turn away from God, contradicting the commitment to the Lord in Deuteronomy 4:4.

Deuteronomy 31:16: And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go [to be] among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. [sleep: Heb. lie down]

Contradiction with Judges 2:12

It speaks of Israelites forsaking the Lord to follow other gods, opposing the adherence implied in Deuteronomy 4:4.

Judges 2:12: And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that [were] round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.

Contradiction with 1 Kings 11:9-10

These verses describe Solomon turning away from God, inconsistent with the faithfulness described in Deuteronomy 4:4.

1 Kings 11:9-10: And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,

Contradiction with Hosea 4:12

The people are described as consulting wooden idols, contradicting their loyalty to God noted in Deuteronomy 4:4.

Hosea 4:12: My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused [them] to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

Contradiction with Jeremiah 2:13

This describes the people forsaking God for broken cisterns, opposing the steadfastness in Deuteronomy 4:4.

Jeremiah 2:13: For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Contradiction with Ezekiel 20:21

It speaks of the children of Israel not following God's statutes, contrary to the loyalty in Deuteronomy 4:4.

Ezekiel 20:21: Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which [if] a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
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