John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:10
And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land ,.... The land of Canaan, on the borders of which they now were, and were just going into: which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee ; of his own free favour and good will, without any merit and desert of theirs, and in which would be found great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not ; large and capacious, delightfully situated, well built, and strongly... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:9
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 literally also, and write in a scroll of parchment this section with some passages; and, as the Targum of Jonathan here, fix them in three places, over against the bed chamber, upon the posts of the house, and on the gate at the right hand of it; and this is what they call the Mezuzah; and the... read more