Deuteronomy 11:1-32

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 11:1-7

Because God has made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude (so the preceding chapter concludes), therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God (so this begins). Those whom God has built up into families, whose beginning was small, but whose latter end greatly increases, should use that as an argument with themselves why they should serve God. Thou shalt keep his charge, that is, the oracles of his word and ordinances of his worship, with which they were entrusted and for which they were... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 11:8-17

Still Moses urges the same subject, as loth to conclude till he had gained his point. ?If thou wilt enter into life, if thou wilt enter into Canaan, a type of that life, and find it a good land indeed to thee, keep the commandments: Keep all the commandments which I command you this day; love God, and serve him with all your heart.? I. Because this was the way to get and keep possession of the promised land. 1. It was the way to get possession (Deut. 11:8): That you may be strong for war, and... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 11:18-25

Here, I. Moses repeats the directions he had given for the guidance and assistance of the people in their obedience, and for the keeping up of religion among them (Deut. 11:18-20), which is much to the same purport with what we had before, Deut. 6:6 Let us all be directed by the three rules here given:?1. Let our hearts be filled with the word of God: Lay up these words in your heart and in your soul. The heart must be the treasury or store-house in which the word of God must be laid up, to be... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 11:26-32

Here Moses concludes his general exhortations to obedience; and his management is very affecting, and such as, one would think, should have engaged them for ever to God, and should have left impressions upon them never to be worn out. I. He sums up all his arguments for obedience in two words, the blessing and the curse (Deut. 11:26), that is, the rewards and the punishments, as they stand in the promises and the threatenings, which are the great sanctions of the law, taking hold of hope and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 11:1

Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God ,.... Because he is so great and glorious in himself, and because he had done such great and good things for them, the Israelites, particularly in the multiplication of them, the last thing mentioned: and keep his charge ; whatsoever the Lord had charged them to observe, even what follow: and his statutes and his judgments, and his commandments, alway ; all his laws, ceremonial, judicial, and moral; and that constantly and continually, all... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 11:2

And know you this day ,.... Take notice of, and diligently attend unto, what is now about to be delivered: for I speak not unto your children which have not known, and which have not seen, the chastisement of the Lord your God ; who have no knowledge and experience of the chastisement of the Lord on themselves, or on their foes or friends; and with whom the argument drawn from it could not come with that force, and make that impression, as it might be thought it would, being used with... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 11:3

And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt ,.... The miraculous works done there, the ten plagues inflicted on the Egyptians for refusing to let Israel go: unto Pharaoh king, of Egypt, and unto all his land ; for those plagues not only affected him and his court, and his metropolis, but all parts of the land, the inhabitants of it everywhere. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 11:4

And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots ,.... At the Red sea, when they pursued Israel in order to bring them back or destroy them, after they had let them go, which army was very numerous; see Exodus 14:7 . how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them ; "or to flow over their faces" F2 הציף־על פניהם "fecit inundare super facics eorum", Pagninus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. : as they pursued after you ; so that they... read more

John Gill

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

And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came unto this place. Meaning not so much the good things he did for them in divers places, as the chastisements and corrections he had exercised them with for their murmurings, rebellions, idolatry, and uncleanness, as at Taberah, Kibrothhattaavah, on the coast of Edom, and plains of Moab; by fire, by sword, by plagues, and fiery serpents; the instances both before and after being of this sort. read more

John Gill

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

And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben ,.... When they with Korah and his company quarrelled with Moses and Aaron about the priesthood, Numbers 16:1 , how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up; the history of which see in Numbers 16:30 . and their households and their tents ; not their houses and their tents, as the Septuagint and some other versions; for though the word signifies houses, and is often used for them, yet here it must... read more

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