Deuteronomy 5:3

our fathers. our fathers only.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The “fathers” are, as in Deuteronomy 4:37 , the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. With them God did indeed make a covenant, but not the parti...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

The LORD (a) made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, [even] us, who [are] all of us here alive this day. (a) Some read, God made not t...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Yahweh's covenant ( Deuteronomy 4:13 *) with Israel at Horeb ( Deuteronomy 1:2 *) and its obligations ( Deuteronomy 5:6-21 ). With D's version of t...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. The Lord made not this covenant wi...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ver. 3. The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers — According to Houbigant, the word fathers here signifies, not their immediate predec...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. The Lord made not this covenan...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Repetition of the Decalogue This chapter repeats the Law of the Ten Commandments given on Mt. Sinai with the circumstances of its delivery: se...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Their fathers who had heard the Law given at Sinai were actually dead. But as the covenant had been made not with individuals, but with the nation of...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Not... with our fathers, but with us. — That is, according to the usage of the Hebrew language in drawing contrasts, not only with our fathers (w...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE DECALOGUE-ITS FORM Deuteronomy 5:1-21 AS the fourth chapter belongs to the speech which concludes the legislative portion of Deuteronomy bo...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Decalogue Repeated Deuteronomy 5:1-21 The Law of God is for “ all Israel.” None are exempt. “Not with our fathers” means not with them o...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Continuing the introductory part of the great discourse, Moses called on all Israel to attend to "statutes and judgments." In addition to these words...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It is a very interesting remark of Moses, in this verse, that the covenant here spoken of was not confined to the days of Abraham, or the Fathers; bu...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

TWO GENERATIONS ‘The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.’ Deuteronomy 5:...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers ,.... That is, not with them only, as Jarchi, Aben Ezra, and Abendana remark; for certain it is tha...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, [even] us, who [are] all of us here alive this day. Ver. 3. With our fathers, ]...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers That is, with our remote progenitors, with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but with us, their descendan...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

A REVIEW OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (vs.1-22) At the beginning of the wilderness journey God had given Israel the ten commandments. Now at the end o...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Decalogue Repeated. B. C. 1451. 1...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

With our fathers; either, 1. Not only with them, the word only being here understood, as it is Genesis 32:28 , Genesis 35:10 1 Samuel 8:7...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Moses Emphasises That The Covenant Was Not Only Given To Their Fathers But Was Given Also Directly To Them Out Of The Midst of The Fire ( Deuteronom...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL REMARKS .—The Deuteronomy, or second law, is now given and enforced. But Moses refers to the covenant relation between Jehovah and Israel,...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deuteronomy 5:4 . The Lord talked with you face to face. That is, as the Chaldaic reads, talked to us, without a mediator; but literally, they s...
The Biblical Illustrator

The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. The promulgation of the law God was ever wonderful in His works, and fearful in His judgment...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE DECALOGUE THE BASIS OF THE COVENANT , THE ESSENCE OF THE WHOLE LAW , AND THE CONDITION OF LIFE...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Ten Commandments as Given on Sinai
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, with the patriarchs, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. The covenant wh...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 29:10-15 ; Galatians 3:17-21 ; Genesis 17:21 ; Genesis 17:7 ; Hebrews 8:8 ; Hebrews 8:9 ; Jeremiah 32:38-40 ; Matthew 13:17 ; Ps...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Not with our fathers — Only: but with us, who are all alive — He saith not, that all who made the covenant at Sinai are now alive, but this covenan...

³ The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

Related Commentaries of Deuteronomy 5:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Deuteronomy 5:3