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Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Deuteronomy 6:4-25

Hortatory Exposition of the First Two CommandsDeuteronomy 6:4 to Deuteronomy 11:32The First Commandment. (Deuteronomy 6:4 to Deuteronomy 8:20)Deuteronomy 6:4-254Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord. 5And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6And these words which I command [am commanding] thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7and thou shalt teach [sharpen] them diligently unto thy children [sons], and shalt talk of them... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:20-25

No Compromise with Idolatry Deuteronomy 6:20-25 ; Deuteronomy 7:1-11 The great Lawgiver had His eye constantly on the coming generation. It is good when the children are so arrested by our religious life, that they come to ask us to tell them the reasons that account for it. Seek to live so purely and devoutly, and yet so attractively, that the young people around will be compelled to inquire after your secret, Luke 11:1 . We are not only to teach the children, but to guard them against... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 6:1-25

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 statement, "Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments." The very form suggested the unification of plurality and evidently was intended to do so, for it led to the statement, "Jehovah our God is one Jehovah." Here Jehovah was used as name and as title, its supreme value, of course,... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 6:20-25

And What They Know For Themselves They Must Explain To Their Children So That Righteousness Might Prevail In The Land (Deuteronomy 6:20-25 ). Analysis in the words of Moses: a When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you, mean?” (Deuteronomy 6:20). b Then you shall say to your son, “We were Pharaoh’s bondmen in Egypt, and Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand (Deuteronomy... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 6:16-25

Deuteronomy 6:16 . See Exodus 17:7 *, cf. Matthew 4:7.— tempt: better “ test” ; cf. the cognate noun (“ temptation = testing) in Deuteronomy 4:34 *.— Massah (= testing) is another cognate noun ( Exodus 17:7 *). The word-play is lost in the translation. Deuteronomy 6:20-Lamentations : . See Deuteronomy 4:10. Deuteronomy 6:25 . righteousness: i.e. prosperity as in II Isaiah. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 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. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 6:25

Heb. righteousness shall be to us. and pronounced by God to be truly righteous and holy persons, if we sincerely obey him, otherwise we shall be declared to be unrighteous and ungodly persons, and all our profession of religion will appear to be in hypocrisy. Or, mercy shall be to us, or with us. For as the Hebrew word rendered righteousness is very oft put for mercy, as Psalms 24:5; Psalms 36:10; Psalms 51:14; Proverbs 10:2; Proverbs 11:4; Daniel 9:16, &c.; so this sense seems best to... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:1-25

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 God and the mode of worshipping Him.Deuteronomy 6:1. Commandments. lit., commandment (sing. noun), equivalent to “the law,” cf. Deuteronomy 4:44, i.e., the sum and substance of all that Jehovah had given (cf. Keil). Statutes, etc., explanatory of the command.Deuteronomy 6:2. Reason for giving law... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:24

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, fearfully formal and stern. So is our statute-book to a felon, while on you and me it sits lightly as the air. Judaism was given from Sinai to that people for that people's good. It was God's best gift to them as they stood there before the mountain. Its relation to the future was their relation to... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Chapter 6So 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: That you may fear the LORD thy God, and to keep all of his statutes and commandments, which I command you. 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 your fathers has promised thee, in the land that flows... read more