Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Deuteronomy 6:9
And thou shalt write them upon the (d) posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
(d) That when you enter in you may remember them.
And thou shalt write them upon the (d) posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
(d) That when you enter in you may remember them.
Verse Deuteronomy 6:9. _WRITE THEM UPON THE POSTS OF THY HOUSE, AND ON THY_ _GATES._] The _Jews_, forgetting the _spirit_ and design of this precept, used these things as superstitious people do _amu...
By adopting and regulating customary usages (e. g. Egyptian) Moses provides at once a check on superstition and a means of keeping the Divine Law in memory. On the “frontlets,” the “phylacteries” of t...
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 6:4 TO DEUTERONOMY 11:32. General precepts resting upon the doctrine that Yahweh is the only true God. Deuteronomy 6:4. Called by Jews the _Shema_ from the first wordHear. The Shema, wi
WRITE. See note on Exodus 17:4 and App-47. POSTS. door-posts. Hebrew. _mezuza._ Used to-day, for cases containing the Phylactery....
Further enforcement of this greed and duty....
The Essential Creed and Duty of Israel, with enforcement of them. Known from its initial word as The _Shĕma-_(_Hear_), this section (along with Deuteronomy 11:13-21 and Numbers 15:37-41) -has been for...
_door posts_ It was the custom of the ancient Egyptians to inscribe on lintels and door-posts sentences of good omen (Wilkinson-Birch, _Anc. Egyptians_2, i. 361 f.); but we are not to infer that it wa...
LESSON SIX DEUTERONOMY 6:4-25 2. LOVE TO BE THE MOTIVE FOR OBSERVANCE THE SHEMA (Deuteronomy 6:4-9) 4 Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah: 5 and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all th...
_AND THOU SHALT WRITE THEM UPON THE POSTS OF THY HOUSE, AND ON THY GATES._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
6:9 gates. (a-15) Gates of cities or of enclosures....
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...
וּ כְתַבְתָּ֛ם עַל ־מְזוּזֹ֥ת בֵּיתֶ֖ךָ וּ בִ
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...
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 THOU SHALT WRITE THEM UPON THE POSTS OF THINE HOUSE, AND ON THY GATES. To put them in mind of them when they went out and came in, that they might be careful to observe them; this the Jews take li...
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates. Ver. 9. _And on thy gates._] In a foolish imitation whereof, the English Jesuits beyond sea have written on their church and c...
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 thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, on the door-posts, AND ON THY GATES. This command was later also reduced to a mere outward observance in the Jewish custom of the Mesusah, accord...
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...
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 6:9 write H3789 (H8804) doorposts H4201 house H1004 gates H8179 Deuteronomy 11:20;...
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 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...
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...
_These words. .. shall be in thine heart._ THE SCRIPTURES TO BE LAID TO HEART, AND DILIGENTLY TAUGHT I. The words concerning which the command is given, their nature and importance. 1. Their supern...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 6:7 The two pairs of opposites—SIT/WALK and LIE DOWN/RISE—suggest that the teaching is to take place at any a
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 11:20; Exodus 12:7; Habakkuk 2:2; Isaiah 30:8; Isaiah 57:8