Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Deuteronomy 6:24
The benefit of obedience is ours, not God's Job 35:7 and therefore our obedience is highly reasonable, and absolutely necessary.
The benefit of obedience is ours, not God's Job 35:7 and therefore our obedience is highly reasonable, and absolutely necessary.
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...
DEUTERONOMY 6:16. See Exodus 17:7 *, _cf._ Matthew 4:7. TEMPT: better test; _cf._ the cognate noun (temptation = testing) in Deut
ALWAYS. for all time. Hebrew all the days....
JEHOVAH _commanded us to do all these statutes_ This phrase is natural to the time and standpoint assumed throughout Deuteronomy 6:20, viz. those of the later generation before which the statutes wil...
These verses return to a favourite theme of Deut.: the close relation between Jehovah's Laws and His Deeds. When a future generation shall ask the meaning of the Laws it shall be referred to the Lord'...
_VER._ 20-24. _AND WHEN THY SON ASKETH THEE,_ &C.— What Moses says in this place principally concerns the observation of the solemnities established to keep up a perpetual memory of God's mercies towa...
3. TEACHING THE LAW (Deuteronomy 6:7-9; Deuteronomy 20-25) 20 When thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God h...
_AND WHEN THY SON ASKETH THEE IN TIME TO COME, SAYING, WHAT MEAN THE TESTIMONIES, AND THE STATUTES, AND THE JUDGMENTS, WHICH THE LORD OUR GOD HATH COMMANDED YOU?_ When thy son asketh thee. The direct...
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...
וַ יְצַוֵּ֣נוּ יְהוָ֗ה לַ עֲשֹׂות֙ אֶת ־כָּל
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...
NO COMPROMISE WITH IDOLATRY Deuteronomy 6:20; Deuteronomy 7:1 The great Lawgiver had His eye constantly on the coming generation. It is good when the children are so arrested by our religious life, t...
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...
What a most delightful subject seems to be opened to us in these verses. The Jewish children are naturally supposed to enquire into the peculiarities of their fathers faith. And the fathers are suppos...
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...
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 THE LORD COMMANDED US TO DO ALL THESE STATUTES,.... Some of which were designed on purpose to commemorate the wonderful deliverance out of Egypt, as particularly the passover; and all of them they...
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...
And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord, our God, for our good always, for it is always to the believer's own advantage if he walks in the ways of the Lord, THAT HE MIGHT...
THE ADMONITION SUBSTANTIATED...
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...
17-25 Moses gives charge to keep God's commandments. Negligence will ruin us; but we cannot be saved without diligence. It is our interest, as well as our duty, to be religious. It will be our life....
"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 6:24 LORD H3068 commanded H6680 (H8762) observe H6213 (H8800) statutes H2706 fear H3372 (H8800) L
AND WHAT THEY KNOW FOR THEMSELVES THEY MUST EXPLAIN TO THEIR CHILDREN SO THAT RIGHTEOUSNESS MIGHT PREVAIL IN THE LAND (DEUTERONOMY 6:20). Analysis in the words of Moses: a When your son asks you in t...
Deuteronomy 6:24 I. Let us examine the popular idea as to the excessive severity and formality of this law. To a transgressor who had not in him the living principle of obedience it was, no doubt, fea...
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'...
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...
_The Lord commanded us to do all these statutes._ THE MORAL SIGNIFICANCE OF GOD’S LAWS The doctrine of this text is that God’s laws are for the good of His subjects; that the basis of all His laws i...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 6:20 WHAT IS THE MEANING...? When future Israelite children ask their parents the reason for any law, the parents should explain how the law relates to their being free...
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...
Deuteronomy 10:13; Deuteronomy 4:1; Deuteronomy 4:4; Deuteronomy 8:1;...