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Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 6:20

20-25. when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying—The directions given for the instruction of their children form only an extension of the preceding counsels. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Deuteronomy 6:20-25

Exhortation to remember the past 6:20-25God explained more fully here the teaching of children that He had hinted at previously (Deuteronomy 6:7). We can learn from these verses how to maintain and transmit a realistic consciousness of the true God from one generation to the next. This whole chapter deals with the first commandment in the Decalogue."Later Judaism wrongly concluded that covenant keeping was the basis for righteousness rather than an expression of faithful devotion. But true... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Practical ExhortationsTo the repetition of the Decalogue Moses adds in the following chapters a practical exhortation to obedience founded on the special relation of Jehovah to Israel as their Redeemer (6-11). Deuteronomy 6 particularly insists upon the remembrance of God’s statutes and the training of the children in them.4, 5. Our Lord calls these words ’the first and great commandment.’ They express the highest truth and duty revealed to the Hebrew nation: the truth of God’s unity and... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Deuteronomy 6:20

(20) What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments.—These three words appear for the first time together in the introduction to this discourse (Deuteronomy 4:45). The Law, or Torah, includes charges, and institutions, and requirements. The Decalogue itself is primarily the Torah; the charge which follows may come under the head of “testimony.” The “statutes” and “judgments” more properly describe the contents of the chapters from Deuteronomy 11-26 inclusive. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Deuteronomy 6:21

(21) The Lord brought us out of Egypt.—The simple explanation of the obligations of the Law given in these verses is based upon the message of Jehovah to Israel from Sinai. in Exodus 19:3-6 : “Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how Ì bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself. Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me.” The keeping of the Law of Jehovah by Israel as a nation in the land that He... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Deuteronomy 6:25

(25) And it shall be our righteousness.—In one Targum, “It shall be merit to us,” or more fully, in the other, “It shall be merit laid up for us against the world to come.” In the LXX., “It shall be alms to us.” This conjunction of ideas will help to explain why in Matthew 6:1 “alms” and “righteousness” occur as alternative readings. We have “alms” in the Authorised Version, “righteousness” in the Revised Version. To this day the Jews call alms ts’dâkah, “righteousness.” read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Deuteronomy 6:1-25

The Message of the Book of Deuteronomy Deuteronomy 6:4 The book which lies before us is, in many ways, the most interesting and impressive of the Pentateuch. The message that this book brings us, coming as it does after the book of Numbers, is a most essential one. Numbers told us of the arrest in the deliverance of the nation; of the thirty-seven years of wandering sent as the punishment of unbelief. But it told us also how the people were brought back to obedience, and were made ready to go... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:6-25

EDUCATION-MOSAIC VIEWDeuteronomy 6:6-25THOSE great verses, Deuteronomy 6:4-5, form the central truth of the book. Everything else in it proceeds from and is informed by them, and they are dwelt upon and enforced with a clear perception of their radical importance. There is something of the joy of discovery in the way in which the unity of Yahweh and exclusive love to Him are insisted upon, not only in Deuteronomy 6:6-25 of this chapter, but in Deuteronomy 11:13-20. The same strongly worded... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Deuteronomy 6:1-25

2. The First Commandment and What It Involves CHAPTER 6 1. Hear, therefore, O Israel! (Deuteronomy 6:1-3 ) 2. The first commandment (Deuteronomy 6:4-5 ) 3. The remembrance of these words and practical obedience (Deuteronomy 6:6-25 ) “Hear, O Israel! The LORD our God is one LORD.” Much has been made of this verse by orthodox Jews, who reverence it greatly. They call it the “Shema” after the first word “Hear.” It is often used by Jews and Unitarians to deny the three persons of the... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Deuteronomy 6:20

6:20 [And] when {i} thy son shall ask thee in time to come, saying, What [mean] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?(i) God not only requires that we serve him all our lives, but also that we see that our posterity sets forth his glory. read more

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 6:20

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Deuteronomy 6:20-25

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Deuteronomy 6:20

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Deuteronomy 6:21

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Deuteronomy 6:25

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:6-25

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Geneva Study Bible - Deuteronomy 6:20

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