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Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:1

CONTENTS This Chapter is a continuation of the same subject as the former. The man of GOD is exceedingly earnest in enforcing obedience to all the precepts contained in the covenant. Deuteronomy 6:1 As the religion of the LORD JESUS distinguisheth his followers from all others that are in the earth, so will it follow that his people are distinguished by their life and conversation from all others. It is a charming feature of character which the Jewish council, in the first age of the gospel,... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:2-3

Reader! do examine in your own heart for that which is among the first evidences of a renewed life, the fear of the LORD; for the sacred writer had it in commission to say, that it is the beginning of wisdom. And if you possess this filial, child-like fear, as distinguished from the fear of bondage, learn to give the LORD the glory of it. See Jeremiah 32:40 compared with Romans 8:15 . Moses adds a sweet note to the end of this verse, in taking in the consideration of the children, and the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 6:1-3

1-3 In this and the like passages, the "commandments" seem to denote the moral law, the "statues" the ceremonial law, and the "judgments" the law by which the judges decided. Moses taught the people all that, and that only, which God commanded him to teach. Thus Christ's ministers are to teach his churches all he has commanded, neither more nor less, Matthew 28:20. The fear of God in the heart will be the most powerful principle of obedience. It is highly desirable that not we only, but our... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Deuteronomy 6:1-15

The Emphatic Admonition v. 1. Now, these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, the general laws, the special ordinances which concerned Israel as the covenant people, and the observances which flow from the obligations which men owe to God and to their fellow-men, which the Lord, your God, commanded to teach you that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it; v. 2. that thou mightest fear the Lord, thy God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Deuteronomy 6:1-3

II. THE SECOND DISCOURSEDeuteronomy 5-26The text-the decalogue, the foundation of the covenant, the kernel of the whole law, and the fundamental condition of all salvationDeuteronomy 5:1 to Deuteronomy 6:31And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in [before] your ears this day, that ye may learn 2[and learn] them, and keep,1 and do them. The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 3The Lord made not this covenant with our... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:1-19

How to Treat God’s Words Deuteronomy 6:1-19 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 measured by heart-throbs, and not by figures on the dial. Deuteronomy 6:4 is reckoned by pious Jews as one of the choicest portions of Scripture. They write it on their phylacteries and repeat it, with other verses, at least twice a day. Note the various methods for maintaining the religious... 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 6:1-3

Chapter 6 The Essence of the Covenant Is That Israel Shall Love Yahweh With All Their Beings And Reveal It In Their Obedience, Keeping Solely To Him As Long As They Lived. Having reminded them of the awesome experience of the giving of the covenant, and of what it basically contained, Moses now seeks to urge on the people the need for total response and obedience to it. But note that he does it, not in terms of their listing the rules and keeping them, but in terms of a personal response of... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 6:1-3

Deuteronomy 6:1-Leviticus : . Exhortation to obey Yahweh’ s commands, referring to the Decalogue ( Deuteronomy 5:6-Ecclesiastes :) or to Deuteronomy 12 ff. to which it would make an excellent introduction, as it may have been originally. Deuteronomy 6:1 . commandment: better, “ commandments” ; Heb. uses the singular where in other languages the plural would stand. Deuteronomy 6:2 . fear: Deuteronomy 4:10 *. Deuteronomy 6:3 . See Deuteronomy 4:1 *.— milk and honey: Exodus 3:8 *. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 6:2

That thou mightest fear the Lord, which he hereby implies to be the first principle of true obedience. read more

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