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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:4-16

Here is, I. A brief summary of religion, containing the first principles of faith and obedience, Deut. 6:4, 5. These two verses the Jews reckon one of the choicest portions of scripture: they write it in their phylacteries, and think themselves not only obliged to say it at least twice every day, but very happy in being so obliged, having this saying among them, Blessed are we, who every morning and evening say, Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. But more blessed are we if we duly... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:17-25

Here, I. Moses charges them to keep God's commandments themselves: You shall diligently keep God's commandments, Deut. 6:17-19. Note, It requires a great deal of care and pains to keep up religion in the power of it in our hearts and lives. Negligence will ruin us; but we cannot be saved without diligence. To induce them to this, he here shows them, 1. That this would be very acceptable to God: it is right and good in the sight of the Lord; and that is right and good indeed that is, so in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:14

Ye shall not go after other gods ,.... To serve and worship them, and swear by them; and which indeed are no gods, only nominal and fictitious ones; idols which are nothing in the world, and ought to have no veneration and adoration given them; to go after them is to worship them, and this is to depart from the true God, and go a whoring after false deities: of the gods of the people which are round about you ; the gods of the Edomites, Ammonites, Moabites, Philistines, and Egyptians;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:15

For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you ,.... He was near to them, in the midst of them, his tabernacle being placed between their camps; and was a God jealous of his honour and glory in matters of worship, and would resent any affront given him in that way: lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee ; there being nothing more apt to stir up his wrath than idolatry: and destroy thee from off the face of the earth ; suffer them to be carried captive out of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:16

Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God ,.... By striving with him or against him, by murmuring at or complaining of his providential dealings with them, or by requiring a sign of him, or miracles to be done by him; this is another passage used by Christ to repel the temptations of Satan, Matthew 4:7 , as tempted him in Massah ; a place so called from the Israelites tempting the Lord there, Exodus 17:7 , the Targum of Jonathan adds, with ten temptations; see Numbers 14:21 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:17

You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God ,.... Not only the ten commands, but all others: and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee ; those of a judicial and ceremonial kind. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:18

And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord ,.... And what is such appears from the declaration of his mind and will in the commandments he has given, and obeying which is therefore doing what is right and good; for his commandment is holy, just, and good, being agreeable both to his nature and will, Romans 7:12 that it may be well with thee; as it is with those that fear God, and keep his commandments: and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:19

To cast out all thine enemies from before thee ,.... This the Lord promised, and as it seems with an oath, that he would do for them; drive out their enemies, and make way for the settlement of them in their country: as the Lord hath spoken ; see Genesis 15:18 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:20

And when thy son asketh thee in time to come ,.... Or "tomorrow" F24 מחר "cras", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus. ; that is, in later times, as Jarchi interprets it; any time after this, and particularly after they were come into the land of Canaan, when the several laws, statutes, and ordinances appointed, would take place and be obeyed: what mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you ? what is the reason of the various rites,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:21

In order to lead him into the spring and original of them, and to acquaint him with the goodness of God, which laid them under obligation to observe them: we were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt ; were brought into bondage and slavery to Pharaoh king of Egypt, into whose country their ancestors came, and where they resided many years, and at length were reduced to the utmost servitude and misery: and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand ; by the exertion of his mighty power,... read more

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