Deuteronomy 5:2-10

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 5:1-5

Here, 1. Moses summons the assembly. He called all Israel; not only the elders, but, it is likely, as many of the people as could come within hearing, Deut. 5:1. The greatest of them were not above God's command, nor the meanest of them below his cognizance; but they were all bound to do. 2. He demands attention: ?Hear, O Israel; hear and heed, hear and remember, hear, that you may learn, and keep, and do; else your hearing is to no purpose.? When we hear the word of God we must set ourselves... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 5:6-22

Here is the repetition of the ten commandments, in which observe, 1. Though they had been spoken before, and written, yet they are again rehearsed; for precept must be upon precept, and line upon line, and all little enough to keep the word of God in our minds and to preserve and renew the impressions of it. We have need to have the same things often inculcated upon us. See Phil. 3:1. 2. There is some variation here from that record (Exod. 20:1-26), as there is between the Lord's prayer as it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 5:2

The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. Which is Sinai, as Aben Ezra observes; it being the same mountain, only it had two tops, which bore these different names; for certain it is that the decalogue after repeated was given at Sinai, and had the nature and form of a covenant; see Exodus 24:7 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 5:3

The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers ,.... That is, not with them only, as Jarchi, Aben Ezra, and Abendana remark; for certain it is that this covenant was made, or law was given, to the immediate fathers of this present generation of Israelites, whose carcasses had fallen in the wilderness; unless this is to be understood of their more remote ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, with whom the covenant of grace was made, or afresh made manifest, especially with the former; when... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 5:4

The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount ,.... Meaning, not in that free, friendly, and familiar manner, in which he sometimes talked with Moses, of whom this phrase is used, Exodus 33:11 , but publicly, audibly, clearly, and distinctly, or without the interposition of another; he did not speak to them by Moses, but to them themselves; he talked to them without a middle person between them, as Aben Ezra expresses it: without making use of one to relate to them what he said; but... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 5:5

I stood between the Lord and you at that time ,.... Between the Word of the Lord and you, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan; that is, about that time, not at the exact precise time the ten commandments were delivered, for these were spoken immediately to the people; but when the ceremonial law was given, which was ordained by angels, in the hand of a mediator, Galatians 3:19 , and which was at the request of the people as follows, terrified by the appearance of the fire out of which... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 5:6-11

I am the Lord thy God ,.... This is the preface to the ten commandments, and is the same with that in Exodus 20:2 ; see Gill on Exodus 20:2 , and those commands are here delivered in the same order, and pretty near in the same words, with a little variation, and a few additions; which I shall only observe, and refer to Exodus 20:1 for the sense of the various laws. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 5:3

The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers (only) but with us (also). read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 5:6

I am the Lord thy God - See these commandments explained in the notes on Exodus 20 (note). read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 5:2

Verse 2 2.The Lord our God. In these words he commends the Law; because it must be accounted a peculiar blessing, and a very high honor to be taken into covenant by God. Wherefore, that they may anxiously prepare themselves to embrace the Law, he says that what was above all things to be desired had been freely offered to them, viz., that they should be united in covenant with God. In the next verse he still further magnifies this advantage by comparison; because God had given more to them than... read more

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