above quotes from Holy Scripture have been used against their purpose to validate the ritual use of an amulet (kamea) on doorposts (mezuzah) and of phylacteries on foreheads and back of hands during prayer.

an examination of the full context of this command of God shows that it is simply an instruction in the idiom of the time to ensure that every action (hand) and every thought (forehead), both at home and abroad, is governed by what God has commanded to Israel in His written Word.

The Bible is not a book of magic. It is a revelation of God in His care for those who hear Him and of the impending judgment of those who dishonour their Source of all being.

Unfortunately, the human urge to employ or manipulate the supernatural to personal advantage blasphemously twists and perverts these things of God. This then develops its own system of superstitions.

Arising from the Old Testament's description of the Urim and Thummim stones in the pocket of Israel's High Priest's breast-piece to give guidance in answer to questions when he came in before the Lord (Ex.28:30), even this idea developed in later Jewish tradition that it was some kind of Ouija board, with messages being spelled on the Urim and Thummim in answer to their High Priest's query.

In addition, YHWH, the four-letter covenant name of God in Israel's holy Scripture became a magical instrument or charm of power to be used to advantage but never spoken lest the command to not take it in vain be violated, as though protecting a special 'word' or term was meant, rather than that forbidding any inappropriate reference to Him.

is ultimately an attempt to manipulate the supernatural to personal advantage. This insults the Most High concerning whom "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" (Ps.111:10; Prov.1:7; Prov.9:10; Prov.15:33).

God, this superstitious practice is blasphemous and calls for His judgment, for He is Lord of all and He rules in terms of His infinite character alone, and not by any manipulations of ritual, or talisman, or incantation, or any such thing, no matter what the sincerity of the practitioner! To be heard by Him requires that we hear Him first on issues that He chooses, and for this He gave us His written Word.