Ver. 3. Hear, therefore, O Israel, &c.— The Jews have a very particular regard for these, and the following words, to the 10th verse exclusively: they write them upon vellum, made of the skin of a pure animal; they carry them about them, and recite them every day; and they are one of the four passages whereof they make their phylacteries.
Verse Deuteronomy 6:3. _HEAR THEREFORE, O ISRAEL, AND OBSERVE TO DO IT_] Literally, Ye shall hear, O Israel, and thou shalt keep to do them. 1. _God is to be heard_; no _obligation_ without _law_ to...
IN THE LAND - Better: According as the Lord the God of thy fathers promised thee a land flowing with milk and honey....
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...
Exhortation to obey Yahweh's commands, referring to the Decalogue (Deuteronomy 5:6) or to Deuteronomy 12 ff. to which it would make an excellent introduction, as it may have been originally. Deuterono...
HEAR... OBSERVE. Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ (App-6), used for emphasis: May be Englished _"Hear._.. _Heed"._ AS. according as. THE LAND, &C. Compare Genesis 17:8; Exodus 3:8; Exodus 3:17...
Transition to the Sg. with a somewhat loose accumulation of common deuteronomic formulas; on these grounds regarded by some as an editorial addition. This is not certain, but very probable. Omit Deute...
_observe to do_ See on Deuteronomy 5:1. _that ye may increase mightily_ A partial return to the Pl., and, with such a verb, logical and natural. The phrase is not found elsewhere. This therefore may n...
d. PURPOSES OF OBSERVING THE LAW: (Deuteronomy 5:32 to Deuteronomy 6:3) Notice these purposes as you read the verses below: (1) to live (2) to live well (3) to live long (4) to multiply 32 Ye...
_HEAR THEREFORE, O ISRAEL, AND OBSERVE TO DO IT; THAT IT MAY BE WELL WITH THEE, AND THAT YE MAY INCREASE MIGHTILY, AS THE LORD GOD OF THY FATHERS HATH PROMISED THEE, IN THE LAND THAT FLOWETH WITH MILK...
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...
THAT YE MAY INCREASE MIGHTILY... IN THE LAND. — The position of Israel in the land, and their continuance therein, depended entirely on their fulfilment of the purpose for which they were brought ther...
וְ שָׁמַעְתָּ֤ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וְ שָׁמַרְתָּ֣ לַ...
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...
Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do [it]; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, (b) in the land that floweth with...
_Hear. The Jews have a particular respect for the seven following verses, which they write on vellum, and recite every day, as a preservative against the devil. (Clarius.) --- To do. It will not suffi...
Reader! do examine in your own heart for that which is among the first evidences of a renewed life, the fear of the LORD; for the sacred writer had it in commission to say, that it is the beginning of...
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...
HEAR THEREFORE, O ISRAEL, AND OBSERVE TO DO IT,.... Or them, the commandments given them: THAT IT MAY BE WELL WITH THEE; in body and estate: AND THAT YE MAY INCREASE MIGHTILY; not only in wealth and...
_Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do [it]; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with mi...
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...
Hear, therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, Genesis 15:5, IN THE LAND THAT FLO...
THE EMPHATIC ADMONITION...
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...
1-3 In this and the like passages, the "commandments" seem to denote the moral law, the "statues" the ceremonial law, and the "judgments" the law by which the judges decided. Moses taught the people...
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 6:3 hear H8085 (H8804) Israel H3478 careful H8104 (H8804) observe H6213 (H8800) well H3190 ...
CHAPTER 6 THE ESSENCE OF THE COVENANT IS THAT ISRAEL SHALL LOVE YAHWEH WITH ALL THEIR BEINGS AND REVEAL IT IN THEIR OBEDIENCE, KEEPING SOLELY TO HIM AS LONG AS THEY LIVED. Having reminded them of the...
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...
_Thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them._ WARS OF THE ISRAELITES There is, perhaps, no point on which the weakness of human nature is more clearly shown than in the difficulty of treading the...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 6:3 MILK AND HONEY. This description of the land is an added incentive to obedience. See also Deuteronomy 11:9;...
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...
Acts 7:17; Deuteronomy 4:6; Deuteronomy 5:32; Ecclesiastes 8:12; Ex