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Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Deuteronomy 6:16-25

The Admonition Substantiated v. 16. Ye shall not tempt the Lord, your God, put either His mercy or His righteousness to a test, as ye tempted Him in Massah, Exodus 17:2-Judges :, in the matter of demanding water to drink in the wilderness. v. 17. Ye shall diligently keep, literally, "observing ye shall observe," the commandments of the Lord, your God, and His testimonies and His statutes which He hath commanded thee. It was and is a sacred duty, a solemn obligation. v. 18. And thou shalt... read more

Johann Peter Lange

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

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

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

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Deuteronomy 6:4 . יהוה אלהינו יהוה אחד , Jehovah our Elohim is one Jehovah. There is uniformly an elision of the letter ם mem, when the plural is associated with the noun; and the י yod is not used in the paradigm of Hebrew verbs to designate the plural noun. The name of the Divinity being here used three times, as in Psalms 33:6, Isaiah 49, 63., and the central name or noun, Elohinu, being in the plural number, indicates to us that mysterious sociality in the Trinity in unity, known... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Deuteronomy 6:20-21

Deuteronomy 6:20-21When thy son asketh thee.Remembrances of holy privilegesWe are also favoured with Divine ordinances, as were the Israelites; and for the same purpose, for a pious testimony to keep alive upon the earth a remembrance of God’s surpassing love. As to them pertained “the adoption and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises,” so to us pertain the gracious promises of life and salvation, and all the privileges and ordinances of... read more

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