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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Deuteronomy 6:13

Only. This is omitted in Hebrew; but the Septuagint and Jesus Christ retain it, (Matthew iv. 10,) as the sense requires. You cannot serve God and mammon, Luke xvi. 13. (Calmet) --- Name, and not by that of idols, whenever you may be authorized to take an oath. (Haydock) --- To swear by any other, is to acknowledge him in some sort for a god. When we take an oath on proper occasions, and with due respect and caution, we perform and act of religion. (Calmet)

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See also Deuteronomy 6:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 6:13. _THOU SHALT FEAR THE LORD THY GOD_] Thou shalt respect and reverence him as thy Lawgiver and Judge; as thy Creator, Preserver, and the sole object of thy religious adoration....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The Israelites were at the point of quitting a normal, life for a fixed and settled abode in the midst of other nations; they were exchanging a condition of comparative poverty for great and goodly ci...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    2. THE FIRST COMMANDMENT AND WHAT IT INVOLVES CHAPTER 6 _ 1. Hear, therefore, O Israel! (Deuteronomy 6:1)_ 2. The first commandment (Deuteronomy 6:4) 3. The remembrance of these words and practica...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    In the land promised them they will be tempted to substitute Canaanite deities for Yahweh and to swear by them. Oaths formed part of the social and commercial fabric of the time, and they are not forb...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THOU SHALT FEAR. Read this verse as follows, and preserve the emphasis on "Him", and the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton,_ App-6: "Jehovah, thy Elohim, Him shalt thou reverence, And Him shalt thou serv...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The chief temptations to forget the duties just enforced will meet Israel when they enter upon the enjoyment of the civilisation of the land they are about to reach: a civilisation to which they have...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _him shalt thou fear … serve … swear by his name_ Intended to cover the whole sphere of religion: the spiritual temper (on the frequent enforcement of the fear of God and its meaning see on Deuteronom...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 13. _THOU SHALT—SWEAR BY HIS NAME_— An oath is a solemn act of religious worship; so, to swear by any other name than that of the true God, is to recognize another god as the true one, and to f...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    4. GOD NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN (Deuteronomy 6:10-15) 10 And it shall be, when Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give th...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THOU SHALT FEAR THE LORD THY GOD, AND SERVE HIM, AND SHALT SWEAR BY HIS NAME._ Shalt swear by his name. The reference is to solemn and judicial oaths, an appeal to God being evidently sanctioned by...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS To the repetition of the Decalogue Moses adds in the following Chapter s a practical exhortation to obedience founded on the special relation of Jehovah to Israel as their Rede...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SWEAR BY HIS NAME] Jehovah, the God of truth, is to be recognised as the unseen witness of all agreements between a man and his neighbour, and the avenger of all falsehood: cp. the Third Commandment....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 6 V1 ‘These are all the *commandments, rules and laws that the *LORD your God ordered me to tea...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (10-13) The song of Moses supplies a prophetic comment upon this in Deuteronomy 32:15 : “Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked... then he forsook God.” “In all time _of our wealth,_ good Lord, deliver us.”...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THOU SHALT FEAR THE LORD THY GOD, AND SERVE HIM. — Literally, _Jehovah thy God thou shalt fear, and him shalt thou serve: i.e.,_ Him only, as translated by the LXX., and cited by our Lord in His tempt...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֶת ־יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהֶ֛יךָ תִּירָ֖א וְ אֹתֹ֣ו תַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    EDUCATION-MOSAIC VIEW Deuteronomy 6:6 THOSE great verses, Deuteronomy 6:4, form the central truth of the book. Everything else in it proceeds from and is informed by them, and they are dwelt upon and...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    HOW TO TREAT GOD'S WORDS Deuteronomy 6:1 Obedience is still the one condition of true prosperity and success. Lands still flow with milk and honey; and they live long who live well. Lives are measur...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The appeal of Moses was now elaborated in a great statement on the deepest value of the commandment and the corresponding responsibilities of the people Observe the peculiar form of the opening statem...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt (f) swear by his name. (f) We must fear God, serve him only and confess his Name, which is done by swearing lawfully....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    These are so many, beautiful repetitions of the same important precepts; and all leading to the same point, to intimate the jealousy of the LORD over his people. Reader! only pause and consider what e...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be called an abstract typical system. That is, we see in them a number of institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which wa...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    13._Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God. _Hence it is more evident why He has just declared that there is One God, viz., that He alone may be undividedly worshipped; for unless our minds are fixed on Him...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5, 6, AND 7. In chapter 5 Moses reminds them of the ten commandments given in Horeb; and it is to be remarked, that the deliverance out of Egypt (not the rest...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THOU SHALT FEAR THE LORD THY GOD, AND SERVE HIM,.... Serve him through fear; not through slavish fear, a fear of hell and damnation; but through filial fear, a reverential affection for that God that...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name. Ver. 13. _And shalt swear by his name._] An oath rightly taken, is a piece of our holy service to God, and may well be re...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Deu. 6:13. "Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and swear by his name." It might have been rendered swearing in the name, or into the name, in the original _Bishmo_. And the thing chiefly...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Shall swear by his name_ Not by idols, or any creatures, but only by _his_ name, when thou hast a call and just cause to swear. But some think, from comparing this with other passages, the words rath...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The end of the Law is obedience. 3 An exhortation thereto. 1 NOW these are the Commaundements, the Statutes, & the Iudgements, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might doe the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE EMPHATIC ADMONITION...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thou shalt fear the Lord, thy God, not with slavish terror, but with reverential awe, AND SERVE HIM, which follows and flows out of the true fear of the Lord, AND SHALT SWEAR BY HIS NAME. Note that oa...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT (vs.1-9) The ten commandments have been reaffirmed in chapter 5; now Moses emphasizes and enlarges upon the significance of the four commandments, which we have seen deal wit...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-16 Here are means for maintaining and keeping up religion in our hearts and houses. 1. Meditation. God's words must be laid up in our hearts, that our thoughts may be daily employed about them. 2....

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    When thou hast a call and just cause to swear. _By his name_, understand _only_, as DEUTERONOMY 5:2, not by idols, or any creatures....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgements, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: that thou mightest fea...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 6:13 fear H3372 (H8799) LORD H3068 God H430 serve H5647 (H8799) oaths H7650 (H8735) name...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE ESSENCE OF THE COVENANT IS LOVE FOR YAHWEH AND THEY MUST LOOK TO NO ONE ELSE (DEUTERONOMY 6:4). For in this is the essence of the covenant, that they might recognise Yahweh as their one God and t...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    FEAR (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Deuteronomy 6:1. _Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:_ God'...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Deuteronomy 6:1. Now these are the commandments, the statues, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: That tho...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Israel exhorted to observe all God's commandments. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Pharoah. CONCLUSION: The fear of God in the heart is the most powerful principle of obedie...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Deuteronomy 6:4. יהוה אלהינו יהוה אחד, _Jehovah our Elohim is one Jehovah._ There is uniformly an elision of the letter ם _mem,_ when the plural is associated with the noun; and the י _yod_ is not use...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 6:13 FEAR. See Deuteronomy 4:10. Jesus quotes this verse to Satan in the wilderness ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.—Moses had rehearsed the law, reminded the people of the circumstances in which it was given, and now he sets forth its essential and fundamental doctrines, the nature and attributes of...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So in chapter six: NOW these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land whither you go to possess it: Tha...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 10:12; Deuteronomy 10:20; Deuteronomy 13:4; Deuteronomy 5:29;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Shalt swear by his name — When thou hast a call and just cause to swear, not by idols, or any creatures....

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