Exodus 20:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. ”

• Exodus 20:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The Hebrew name which is rendered in our King James Version as the ten commandments occurs in Exodus 34:28 ; Deuteronomy 4:13 ; Deuteronomy 10:4 . It literally means “the Ten Words.” The Ten Com...

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• Exodus 20:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Exodus 20-24, 34. The Codes in Exodus. Recent study has by many converging lines of argument, based on subject matter, choice of words, relation to the context, idiomatic phrasing, comparison with...

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• Exodus 20:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  made . took to make. heaven and earth . See note on Deuteronomy 4:26 . the sea. Samaritan Pentateuch, Targum of Onkelos, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, Septuagint, and Syriac read "and the se...

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• Exodus 20:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  11. For in six days the Lord made. From this passage it may be probably conjectured that the hallowing of the Sabbath was prior to the Law; and undoubtedly what Moses has before narrated, th...

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• Exodus 20:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is , and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

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• Exodus 20:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And hallowed it— Sanctified it. See Genesis 2:3 . REFLECTIONS.— Never before, nor since, was such an auditory, or such a speaker. God himself appears from heaven to promulge that sacred law w...

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• Exodus 20:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. To keep holy or sanctify the Sabbath is to appropriate it to sacred purposes; and the purport of this com...

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• Exodus 20:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Ten Commandments (vv. 1-21) Exodus 20-23, containing (1) the Decalogue (Gk. = 'Ten Words' or 'Commandments') and (2) a code of laws regulating the religious and social life of the people, and...

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• Exodus 20:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth. — Comp. Genesis 2:2-3 , and Exodus 31:17 . It is not improbable that the work of creation was made to occupy six days because one day in seven is t...

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• Exodus 20:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the “Ten Words” Spoken at Sinai Exodus 20:1-17 The Law was given by the disposition of angels, through the medium of Moses. See John 1:17 ; Acts 7:53 . It tells us, not what God is, for that...

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• Exodus 20:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Here we have the Ten Words of the moral Law. They are introduced by a proclamation of God concerning Himself: first as to His name, "I am Jehovah"; second, as to His relation to them, "thy God"; and,...

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• Exodus 20:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  These verses contain the fourth commandment. This is among the earliest precepts of God. Genesis 2:3 . And how much more ought its observance to be endeared to us, since the resurrection of the Lord...

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• Exodus 20:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea , and all that in them is , c] And of which six days, and of the several things made in each of them, see the notes on the first chapter of...

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• Exodus 20:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Ver. 11. For in six...

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• Exodus 20:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The fourth commandment concerns the time of worship; God is to be served and honoured daily; but one day in seven is to be particularly dedicated to his honour, and spent in his service. Remembe...

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• Exodus 20:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (vs.1-17) Before God gives the ten commandments, He makes is abundantly clear that Israel's obedience to law had nothing to do with God's previous grace toward them in delive...

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• Exodus 20:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Ten Commandments. B. C. 1491.       1 And God spake all these words, saying,   2 I am th...

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• Exodus 20:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  In six days, and neither in more nor less time, as he could have done. Rested, i.e. ceased from his creating works; otherwise he worketh still \ 1 Thessalonians 5:17 \ by his providence and g...

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• Exodus 20:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 20:8 . Before Me.] That is, “in presence of Me:” suggesting that the Divine presence in Israel would greatly aggravate the sin of idolatry—under the circumstances, the wor...

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• Exodus 20:11 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Exodus 20:8-11 The early reference to the Sabbath in the Book of Genesis is no proof of its early institution, for there can be no doubt that in the Pentateuch Moses felt himself at perfect libert...

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• Exodus 20:11 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Exodus 20:1-3 . And God spake all these words saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me....

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• Exodus 20:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Exodus 20:1 . God spake all these words. In compassion to man, and the increasing weakness of human traditions, it has pleased the infinitely wise and Holy One to renew the evidences of revelation...

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• Exodus 20:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Remember the Sabbath Day. The Fourth Commandment I. The first word of the Fourth Commandment reminds us that the Sabbath Day was already established among the Israelites when the law was delive...

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• Exodus 20:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE DELIVERY OF THE MORAL LAW . Every necessary preparation had now been made. The priests, as well as the people, had "sanctified themselves." A wholesome dread of "brea...

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• Exodus 20:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Decalogue

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• Exodus 20:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Exodus 31:17 Genesis 2:2 Genesis 2:3 Psalms 95:4-7 Mark 2:27 Mark 2:28 Acts 20:7

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• Exodus 20:11 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Breaking the Ten Commandments Exodus 20:1-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have today a study on the Ten Commandments. These Commandments were written upon two tables of stone. The first four, written...

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