Deuteronomy 6:6-9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 6:8-9

By adopting and regulating customary usages (e. g. Egyptian) Moses provides at once a check on superstition and a means of keeping the Divine Law in memory. On the “frontlets,” the “phylacteries” of the New Test. Matthew 23:5, see Exodus 13:16. On Deuteronomy 6:9; Deuteronomy 11:20 is based the Jewish usage of the mezuzah. This word denotes properly a door-post, as it is rendered here and in Exodus 12:7, Exodus 12:22; Exodus 21:6 etc. Among the Jews however, it is the name given to the square... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 6:6

Deuteronomy 6:6. These words shall be in thy heart Though the words alone, without the things expressed by them, will do us no good, yet as we are in danger of losing the things if we neglect the words, we must, therefore, even lay the words up in our hearts. Our thoughts must be daily conversant with them, and employed about them, that thereby our whole soul may be brought under the influence and impression of them. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 6:7

Deuteronomy 6:7. Thou shall teach them diligently Hebrew, whet, or sharpen them, so as that they may pierce deeply into their hearts, This metaphor signifies the manner of instructing them, that it is to be done diligently, earnestly, frequently, discreetly. To thy children They that love the Lord God themselves will do what they can to engage the affections of their children to him, and so preserve the entail of religion in their families from being cut off. Bishop Patrick well... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 6:8

Deuteronomy 6:8. Thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand As at that time there were few written copies of the whole law, and the people had it read to them only at the feast of tabernacles, God seems to have appointed, at least for the present, that some select sentences of the law, that were most weighty and comprehensive, should literally be written upon their gates and walls, or on slips of parchment, to be worn about their wrists, or bound upon their foreheads. The spirit of the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:1-25

The power of love (6:1-25)No matter how strong their determination to do right, the people would be unable to keep God’s law unless they first had a strong and genuine love for God himself. Love for him would give them the inner power to walk in his ways (6:1-5). As well as keeping God’s commandments themselves, they had to teach their children to do likewise. Their family life was to be guided by the knowledge of God’s law. Their house was to be known as a place where people loved God’s law... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 6:6

this day. See note on Deuteronomy 4:26 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 6:7

teach. Hebrew "sharpen" or "whet" = rub them in by repetition. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 6:8

bind. Still practiced by orthodox Jews. hand. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, read plural "hands". as = for. frontlets. Greek. phylacteries = guards or watch-posts. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 6:9

write. See note on Exodus 17:4 and App-47 . posts = door-posts. Hebrew. mezuza. Used to-day, for cases containing the Phylactery. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 6:8

Ver. 8. Thou shalt bind then, for a sign— The Lord is pleased to take every method most likely to preserve in the minds of the Israelites a conscientious regard to the precepts which he enjoined. He not only commands, that their children be early and diligently instructed in them, but that they should bind them for a sign upon their hands, &c. that is, that they should make them as familiar to them as if they were written upon their arms or foreheads, or upon the posts of their houses, or... read more

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