“ Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name. ”
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...
Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt (f) swear by his name. (f) We must fear God, serve him only and confess his Name, which is done by swearing lawfully.
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...
Thou shalt fear. Read this verse as follows, and preserve the emphasis on "Him", and the Figure of speech Polysyndeton, App-6: "Jehovah, thy Elohim, Him shalt thou reverence, And Him shalt thou s...
13. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God. Hence it is more evident why He has just declared that there is One God, viz., that He alone may be undividedly worshipped; for unless our minds are fix...
Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God - Thou shalt respect and reverence him as thy Lawgiver and Judge; as thy Creator, Preser...
Ver. 13. Thou shalt—swear by his name — An oath is a solemn act of religious worship; so, to swear by any other name than that of the true God, is to recognize another god as the true one, and t...
Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name. Shalt swear by his name. The reference is to solemn and judicial oaths, an appeal to God being evidently sanction...
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...
(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....
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...
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...
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...
These are so many, beautiful repetitions of the same important precepts; and all leading to the same point, to intimate the jealousy of the LORD over his people. Reader! only pause and consider what...
Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him ,.... Serve him through fear; not through slavish fear, a fear of hell and damnation; but through filial fear, a reverential affection for that God th...
Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name. Ver. 13. And shalt swear by his name. ] An oath rightly taken, is a piece of our holy service to God, and may well be...
Shall swear by his name Not by idols, or any creatures, but only by his name, when thou hast a call and just cause to swear. But some think, from comparing this with other passages, the words rat...
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...
Cautions and Precepts. B. C. 1451. 4 Hear, O Israel: The L ORD our God is one L ORD...
When thou hast a call and just cause to swear. By his name , understand only , as Deuteronomy 5:2 , not by idols, or any creatures.
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...
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...
fear ( See Scofield) - ( Psalms 19:9 ).
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...
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...
The Emphatic Admonition
Deuteronomy 10:12 ; Deuteronomy 10:20 ; Deuteronomy 13:4 ; Deuteronomy 5:29 ; Deuteronomy 6:2 ; Isaiah 45:23 ; Isaiah 65:16 ; Jeremiah 12:16 ; Jeremiah 4:2 ; Jeremiah 5:2 ; Jeremiah 5:7 ;...
Shalt swear by his name — When thou hast a call and just cause to swear, not by idols, or any creatures.