Deuteronomy 4:1-492. The Call to Obedience on the Basis of God’ s Wondrous Leading of His People (Deuteronomy 4:1-49) The chosen people are reminded that they had been eyewitnesses of Jehovah’ s mighty works and that they had heard with their own ears the divine injunctions. Prone to forget as these people had shown themselves easily capable of doing, there was need of continual warning lest they should let these wonderful experiences slip from their minds and thus be led to ingratitude and lack of God-consciousness, finally ending up, on the part of both themselves and their children, in idolatry.