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 forbidden here. Contrast Christ's teaching (Matthew 6:34 f.). In trading with Caananites it would require courage to refuse to swear by their gods.
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...
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...
ABRAHAM, &C. Note inclusion of all three patriarchs. See note on Deuteronomy 1:8....
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...
_And it shall be, when_ JEHOVAH _thy God shall bring thee into_, etc.] A formula partly derived from J (Exodus 13:5; Exodus 13:11, _the land of the Canaanite_), but varied by D, which adds _thy God_an...
DISCOURSE: 195 THE DANGER OF PROSPERITY Deuteronomy 6:10. It shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob,...
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...
_AND THOU SHALT WRITE THEM UPON THE POSTS OF THY HOUSE, AND ON THY GATES._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
6:10 good (b-32) As ch. 3.25....
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...
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...
(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.”...
וְ הָיָ֞ה כִּ֥י יְבִיאֲךָ֣ ׀ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ...
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...
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...
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...
Observe, how the man of GOD speaks with confidence of the people's possessing Canaan, as if it were already in possession. Reader! do not overlook the sweet property of faith. And why should not true...
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...
10._And it shall be, when the Lord thy God. _Since wealth and prosperity for the most part blind men’s minds, so that they do not sufficiently attend to modesty and moderation, but rather grow wanton...
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...
AND IT SHALL BE, WHEN THE LORD THY GOD SHALL HAVE BROUGHT THEE INTO THE LAND,.... The land of Canaan, on the borders of which they now were, and were just going into: WHICH HE SWARE UNTO THY FATHERS,...
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...
THE EMPHATIC ADMONITION...
And it shall be, when the Lord, thy God, shall have brought thee in to the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou bu...
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...
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....
No text from Poole on this verse....
"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...
Deuteronomy 6:10 LORD H3068 God H430 brings H935 (H8686) land H776 swore H7650 (H8738) fathers H1 Abraham...
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...
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'...
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...
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...
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...
_Cities which thou buildedst not._ THE DIVINE TRANSFERENCE OF MAN’S PROPERTY I. God’s right to the secular property of men. Not merely the and, but also all productions of labour, belong to Him. II...
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...
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...
Genesis 13:15; Genesis 15:18; Genesis 26:3; Genesis 28:13; Joshua 24