Deuteronomy 6:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand: ”

• Deuteronomy 6:21 - 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 6:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 no...

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• Deuteronomy 6:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:

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• Deuteronomy 6:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 20-24. And when thy son asketh thee, &c.— What Moses says in this place principally concerns the observation of the solemnities established to keep up a perpetual memory of God's merci...

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• Deuteronomy 6:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you? When thy son asketh thee. The...

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• Deuteronomy 6:21 - 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 6:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The Lord brought us out of Egypt. — The simple explanation of the obligations of the Law given in these verses is based upon the message of Jehovah to Israel from Sinai. in Exodus 19:3-6 : “Ye ha...

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• Deuteronomy 6:21 - 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 6:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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 rel...

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• Deuteronomy 6:21 - 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 6:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  What a most delightful subject seems to be opened to us in these verses. The Jewish children are naturally supposed to enquire into the peculiarities of their fathers faith. And the fathers are suppo...

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• Deuteronomy 6:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Ver. 21 Then shall thou say unto thy son ,.... 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 th...

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• Deuteronomy 6:21 - 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 6:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  A Charge to Israel. B. C. 1451.       17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the L...

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• Deuteronomy 6:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Deuteronomy 6:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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 as...

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• Deuteronomy 6:21 - 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 6:21 - 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 6:21 - 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 6:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

  When thy son asketh thee. Remembrances of holy privileges We are also favoured with Divine ordinances, as were the Israelites; and for the same purpose, for a pious testimony to keep alive upon...

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• Deuteronomy 6:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Admonition Substantiated

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• Deuteronomy 6:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 15:15 ; Deuteronomy 26:5-9 ; Deuteronomy 5:15 ; Deuteronomy 5:6 ; Ephesians 2:11 ; Ephesians 2:12 ; Exodus 13:3 ; Exodus 20:2 ; Exodus 3:19 ; Isaiah 51:1 ; Jeremiah 32:20 ; Je...

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