That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
Ver. 21. As the days of heaven,] i.e., As long as the world standeth. Hence haply we may conceive hope of the repentance of the Jews, and their re-establishment in this Promised Land.
The sense is: “Keep the covenant faithfully, and so shall your own and your children’s days be multiplied as long as the heaven covers the earth.” The promise of Canaan to Israel was thus a perpetual...
ISRAEL'S RESPONSIBILITY, THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE CHAPTER 11 _ 1. Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God (Deuteronomy 11:1)_ 2. If ye hearken unto my commandments (Deuteronomy 11:10) 3. The b...
DEUTERONOMY 11. Continues the exhortation to love and obey Yahweh, giving motives and promises and pointing out the consequence of disobedience. Deuteronomy 11:2. Read (adding one Heb. consonant), for...
One of the _Phylacteries._ See note on Deuteronomy 6:4....
Deuteronomy 10:12 to Deuteronomy 11:32. Final Exhortations, Introductory to the Laws Enforced by the preceding Retrospect, the discourse continues to urge its practical conclusions of full fear and l...
The Pl. address is continued in a series of formulas, repeated with some variations from previous passages. The secondary nature of part of this section cannot be doubted. The emergence of the Sg. in...
DISCOURSE: 203 THE SCRIPTURES RECOMMENDED TO US Deuteronomy 11:18. Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as...
_VER._ 21. _AS THE DAYS OF HEAVEN UPON THE EARTH_— This phrase signifies _a long time,_ indefinitely. So it is said of David in the Psalms, _His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the days...
(3) BY A CONSTANT REFRESHING OF MEMORY (Deuteronomy 11:2-25) 2 And know ye this day: for I _speak_ not with your children that have not known, and that have not seen the chastisement of Jehovah your G...
_AND YE SHALL TEACH THEM YOUR CHILDREN, SPEAKING OF THEM WHEN THOU SITTEST IN THINE HOUSE, AND WHEN THOU WALKEST BY THE WAY, WHEN THOU LIEST DOWN, AND WHEN THOU RISEST UP._ No JFB commentary on these...
PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS (CONCLUDED) Some injunctions to obedience, with the blessing it entails, and the curse that follows disobedience....
HEAVEN UPON THE EARTH] RV 'the heavens above the earth.'...
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 11 V1 ‘Therefore, love the *LORD your God. Always *keep his instructions, his rules and his *co...
IN THE LAND WHICH THE LORD SWARE UNTO YOUR FATHERS TO GIVE THEM. — “It is not written here ‘to give _you,’_ but ‘to give _them.’ Hence we find the resurrection of the dead taught in the Law.”_ If this...
לְמַ֨עַן יִרְבּ֤וּ יְמֵיכֶם֙ וִ ימֵ֣י בְנֵיכֶ֔ם...
ISRAEL'S ELECTION, AND MOTIVES FOR FAITHFULNESS Deuteronomy 9:1; Deuteronomy 10:1; Deuteronomy 11:1 THE remaining Chapter s of this special introduction to the statement of the actual laws beginni
THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE Deuteronomy 11:18 Never in this world do we reach a position from which it is impossible to fall away. The dew and the rain of God's blessing are contingent on obedience; a...
As Moses concluded his great call to the people to the pathway of obedience, he reminded them what varied experiences they had had from which they knew the nature of the government and power of God....
That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as (g) the days of heaven upon the earth. (g) As long as the heavens...
_Earth, as long as the world shall endure. The psalmist (Psalm lxxxviii. 30,) expresses the duration of the reign of the Messias nearly in the same terms. See Baruch i. 2. (Calmet) --- If the Jews had...
I have often admired the LORD'S affectionate regard to the happiness of Israel, as set forth in these precepts, and have figured to myself the Jewish family following up the command of the LORD, in fo...
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 8, 9, 10, AND 11. In chapter 8, in the most instructive and touching language as to the care God had taken of them, while keeping them in dependence, and His...
THAT YOUR DAYS MAY BE MULTIPLIED,.... Long life being a very desirable blessing, and which is promised to those that obey and keep the law; see Deuteronomy 30:19 AND THE DAYS OF YOUR CHILDREN; which...
_As the days of heaven_ As long as the heaven keeps its place, and continues its influences upon the earth. Thus the psalmist says of the son of David, the Messiah, _His seed shall endure for ever, an...
1 An exhortation to obedience, 2 by their owne experience of Gods great works, 8 by promise of Gods great blessings, 16 and by threatnings. 18 A carefull study is required in Gods words. 26 The b...
That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, this blessing being again made prominent, IN THE LAND WHICH THE LORD SWARE UNTO YOUR FATHERS TO GIVE THEM, AS THE DAYS OF HEAVEN UPON T...
OBEDIENCE ENJOINED...
SOWING AND REAPING (vs.1-32) This chapter emphasizes the results of obedience in contrast to the consequences of disobedience. It begins with the commandment to love the Lord their God, which of cour...
18-25 Let all be directed by the three rules here given. 1. Let our hearts be filled with the word of God. There will not be good practices in the life, unless there be good thoughts, good affections...
i.e. As long as this visible world lasts, whilst the heaven keeps its place and continues its influences upon earth, until all these things be dissolved. Compare PSALMS 72:5, PSALMS 81:15 89:29 JEREMI...
"Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgements, and his commandments, alway. And know ye this day; for I speak not with your children which have...
Deuteronomy 11:21 days H3117 days H3117 children H1121 multiplied H7235 (H8799) land H127 LORD H3068 swore H765
THEIR BLESSING AND FRUITFULNESS WILL DEPEND ON WHOM THEY SERVE (DEUTERONOMY 11:13 A). Analysis in the words of Moses: a If you will listen diligently to my commandments which I command you this day,...
Deuteronomy 11:21 The text shows us a Divine method in providence; a law for individual and national life, and for the larger life of the race; a law borne witness to by the history of the people whos...
CONTENTS: Warnings and exhortations to obedience. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: The closer dependence we have had on God, the more cheerful should be our obedience to Him. In absolute obedienc...
Deuteronomy 11:10. _Water it with thy foot._ Egypt was watered periodically by the overflowing of the Nile; and the husbandman, following the retiring waters, sowed his seed. When the droughty season...
_Teach them your children._ RELIGIOUS EDUCATION I. This is the simplest notion of education, for undoubtedly he is perfectly educated who is taught all the will of God concerning him, and enabled th...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 11:18 On teaching THESE WORDS to the next generation, see note on 6:7–9. AS LONG AS THE HEAVENS ARE ABOVE THE EARTH. That is, forever.
CRITICAL NOTES.— Deuteronomy 11:1 develops more fully the other features of Divine Requirements, Deuteronomy 10:12. Love must be seen in perpetual observance of commands. _Keep_, Leviticus 8:35;...
EXPOSITION Moses here renews his exhortation to obedience, enforced by regard to their experience of God's dealings with them in Egypt and in the wilderness, and by consideration of God's promises an...
In chapter eleven he continues his warnings to them, as they are about to come into the land. And he reminds them again of the miracles that God did for them in bringing them out of Egypt. How He spoi...
Deuteronomy 4:40; Deuteronomy 5:16; Deuteronomy 6:2; Isaiah 65:20;...
As the days of heaven — As long as the heaven keeps its place and continues its influences upon earth....