“ Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: ”
These words form the beginning of what is termed the “Shema” (“Hear”) in the Jewish Services, and belong to the daily morning and evening office. They may be called “the creed of the Jews.” This...
Deuteronomy 6:4 to Deuteronomy 11:32 . General precepts resting upon the doctrine that Yahweh is the only true God. Deuteronomy 6:4-9 . Called by Jews the Shema from the first wordHear. Th...
Hear. In the Hebrew text this word ( sham'a) has the last letter majuscular (i.e. larger than the others) as also the last letter of the last word ( 'echad ), to emphasize "the first and great com...
4. Hear, O Israel. When Moses proclaims that God is One, the statement is not confined to His sole essence, which is incomprehensible, but must be also understood of His power and glory, whi...
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: Hear, O Israel - שמע ישראל יהוה אלהינו יהוה אחד shema Yisrael, Yehovah Eloheinu, Yehovah achad. These words may be variously rendered into English; but...
Ver. 4, 5. The Lord our God is one Lord, &c.— As polytheism was the great error of the world, the Jewish religion and laws were calculated to strike at the root of that epidemical evil. The...
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord - or, as the words may perhaps be better translated, 'Hear, O Israel: Yahweh ( H3068 ) is our Go...
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...
Hear, O Israel... — These two verses are styled by our Lord “the first and great commandment” in the Law. The first words of the Talmud concern the hours when this form should be recited in daily m...
LOVE TO GOD THE LAW OF LIFE Deuteronomy 6:4-5 IN these verses we approach "the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments" which it was to be Moses' duty to communicate to the people, i.e....
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...
What a blessed verse is this, which folds within its short, but mighty contents, the foundation of all our faith. Our GOD, though existing in a manner totally distinct from all his creatures in a thr...
THE CENTRAL TRUTH OF BIBLICAL RELIGION ‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And...
Hear, O Israel ,.... These are the words of Moses, stirring up the people to an attention to what he was about to say of this great and momentous article, the unity of God, to prevent their going in...
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD: Ver. 4. The Lord our God is one Lord. ] One in Three, and Three in One. Here are three words answering the three persons; and the middle word, Our G...
Hear, O Israel! The passage contained in this and the following verse, the Jews reckoned one of their choicest portions of Scripture. They wrote it on their phylacteries, (or slips of parchment bou...
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...
One in essence, and the only object of our worship.
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...
Deuteronomy 6:4 (with Matthew 28:19 ) Observe: I. That the Scriptural Trinity implies that God is One. So far from being against the cardinal truth of God's unity, it actually assumes it. The...
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...
Thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them. Wars of the Israelites There is, perhaps, no point on which the weakness of human nature is more clearly shown than in the difficulty of treading...
The Emphatic Admonition
1 Chronicles 29:10 ; 1 Corinthians 8:4-6 ; 1 Kings 18:21 ; 1 Timothy 2:5 ; 2 Kings 19:5 ; Deuteronomy 4:35 ; Deuteronomy 4:36 ; Deuteronomy 5:6 ; Isaiah 42:8 ; Isaiah 44:6 ; Isaiah 44:8 ;...