Exodus 20:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. ”

Exodus 20:12 - 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...
Exodus 20:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Honour thy (h) father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. (h) By parents it is also meant all that have authority over us.
Exodus 20:12 - 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...
Exodus 20:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Honour . This completes the first five, and ends with "promise "( Ephesians 6:2 ). These five, that relate to piety, are thus separated from the five that relate to probity. The first and fifth...
Exodus 20:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

I am not ignorant that the Tables of the Law are usually divided in a different manner; (1) for those, who make only one of the first two Commandments, are obliged finally to mangle the last....
Exodus 20:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Honor thy father and thy mother - There is a degree of affectionate respect which is owin...
Exodus 20:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Honour thy father and thy mother— This is the first commandment of the second table, and therefore called by St. Paul the first with promise, Ephesians 6:2 . A promise, which, in the letter an...
Exodus 20:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Honour thy father and thy mother - by expressions of respect and reverence for th...
Exodus 20:12 - 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...
Exodus 20:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Honour thy father and thy mother. — It is not a matter of much importance how we divide the commandments; nor is it historically certain how they were originally distributed between the two tables....
Exodus 20:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT. "Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee."-- Exodus 20:12 . This commandment forms a kind of bridge be...
Exodus 20:12 - 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...
Exodus 20:12 - 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,...
Exodus 20:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

This is the fifth commandment: and the first of the second table of the law concerning our duty to our neighbour. The apostle calls this the first commandment with promise. Ephesians 6:2 .
Exodus 20:12 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

REVERENCE FOR PARENTS ‘Honour thy father and thy mother.’ Exodus 20:12 I. Consider various ways in which a man may honour his father and mother: (1) by doing his best in the way of self-im...
Exodus 20:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Honour thy father and thy mother , c] Which is the fifth commandment of the decalogue, but is the first commandment with promise, as the apostle says, Ephesians 6:2 and is the first of the second...
Exodus 20:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Ver. 12. Honour thy father, &c. ] Philo well! observeth, that this fifth command...
Exodus 20:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

We have here the laws of the second table, as they are commonly called, the last six commandments, which concern our duty to ourselves and one another, and are a comment upon the second great command...
Exodus 20:12 - 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...
Exodus 20:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the L ORD thy God giveth thee. 13 Thou shalt not kill. 14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. 15 Thou sha...
Exodus 20:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The word honour doth not only note the reverence, love, and obedience we owe them, but also support and maintenance, as appears from Matthew 15:4-6 , and from the like signification of that word...
Exodus 20:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 20:12 . Upon the land.] More exactly: “upon the ground” or “soil” ( ’adhamah , not ’eretz ); a term happily used of a people destined to become a nation of agriculturists...
Exodus 20:12 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Exodus 20:12 I. The relationship in which we stand to our parents, a relationship based upon the fact that we owe our existence to them, that we are made in their image, that for so long a time we...
Exodus 20:12 - 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....
Exodus 20:12 - 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...
Exodus 20:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Honour thy father and thy mother. The Fifth Commandment I. The relationship in which we stand to our parents, a relationship based upon the fact that we owe our existence to them, that we are m...
Exodus 20:12 - 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...
Exodus 20:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Honor thy father and thy mother, they are to be given the reverence due to them as the representatives of God, with heart, mouth, and hand, in thought, word, and deed. In the home, in the family, is...
Exodus 20:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

honour Exodus 21:15 Exodus 21:17 Leviticus 19:3 Leviticus 19:32 1 Kings 2:19 2 Kings 2:12 Proverbs 1:8 Proverbs 1:9 Proverbs 15:5 Proverbs 20:20 Proverbs 23:22-25 Proverbs 28:2...
Exodus 20:12 - 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...
Exodus 20:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

We have here the laws of the second table, as they are commonly called; the six last commandments which concern our duty to ourselves, and one another, and are a comment upon the second great comma...

Exodus 20:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Exodus 20:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Exodus 20:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 20:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Exodus 20:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 20:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Exodus 20:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Exodus 20:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Exodus 20:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 20:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Exodus 20:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Exodus 20:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Exodus 20:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Exodus 20:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Exodus 20:12 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Exodus 20:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Exodus 20:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Exodus 20:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 20:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 20:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Exodus 20:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Exodus 20:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Exodus 20:12 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Exodus 20:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Exodus 20:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 20:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Exodus 20:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Exodus 20:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Exodus 20:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 20:12 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Exodus 20:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes