Deuteronomy 6:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.b ”

• Deuteronomy 6:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The Israelites were at the point of quitting a normal, life for a fixed and settled abode in the midst of other nations; they were exchanging a condition of comparative poverty for great and goodly...

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (e) [Then] beware lest thou shouldest forget the LORD, who brought thee forth from the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. (bondage: Heb. bondmen or, servants) (e) Do not let wealth and ease c...

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  In the land promised them they will be tempted to substitute Canaanite deities for Yahweh and to swear by them. Oaths formed part of the social and commercial fabric of the time, and they are not for...

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  LORD . Jehovah. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Septuagint, Syriac, add "thy God". bondage. Hebrew bondmen, put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjun...

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 195 THE DANGER OF PROSPERITY Deuteronomy 6:10-12 . It shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and...

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. Beware lest thou forget the Lord - In earthly prosperity men are apt to forget h...

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 12. Then beware lest thou forget the Lord — It is well known, how prone men are in prosperity to forget their benefactors, but especially their supreme One, and their dependance upon him. S...

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates. No JFB commentary on these verses.

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Practical Exhortations To the repetition of the Decalogue Moses adds in the following Chapter s a practical exhortation to obedience founded on the special relation of Jehovah to Israel as their R...

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (10-13) The song of Moses supplies a prophetic comment upon this in Deuteronomy 32:15 : “Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked... then he forsook God.” “In all time of our wealth, good Lord, deliver us....

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  EDUCATION-MOSAIC VIEW Deuteronomy 6:6-25 THOSE great verses, Deuteronomy 6:4-5 , form the central truth of the book. Everything else in it proceeds from and is informed by them, and they are d...

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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 ar...

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 state...

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Observe, how the man of GOD speaks with confidence of the people's possessing Canaan, as if it were already in possession. Reader! do not overlook the sweet property of faith. And why should not true...

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then beware lest thou forget the Lord ,.... To love, fear, and worship him, and keep his commands; creature enjoyments being apt to get possession of the heart, and the affections of it; Proverbs 3...

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Deuteronomy 6:12 [Then] beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. Ver. 12. Lest thou forget the Lord. ] Should we, with the...

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT (vs.1-9) The ten commandments have been reaffirmed in chapter 5; now Moses emphasizes and enlarges upon the significance of the four commandments, which we have seen deal...

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Cautions and Precepts. B. C. 1451.       4 Hear, O Israel: The L ORD our God is one L ORD...

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Essence Of The Covenant Is Love For Yahweh And They Must Look To No One Else ( Deuteronomy 6:4-15 ). For in this is the essence of the covenant, that they might recognise Yahweh as their one...

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Deuteronomy 6:1-2 . Now these are the commandments, the statues, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: Th...

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Cities which thou buildedst not. The Divine transference of man’s property I. God’s right to the secular property of men. Not merely the and, but also all productions of labour, belong to Him....

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Emphatic Admonition

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• Deuteronomy 6:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 6:12

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