It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, that I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil. I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full. Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away to serve other gods and worship them; and Yahweh’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you. Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates; that your days and your children’s days may be multiplied in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth. For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you—to do them, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him— then Yahweh will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the western sea shall be your border. No man will be able to stand before you. Yahweh your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you tread on, as he has spoken to you. Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you today; and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn away out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.
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Therefore you shall keep the entire commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land that you go over to possess; and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey. For the land, where you go in to possess isn’t like the land of Egypt that you came out of, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs; but the land that you go over to possess is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water from the rain of the sky, a land which Yahweh your God cares for. Yahweh your God’s eyes are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year. It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, that I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil. I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full. Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away to serve other gods and worship them; and Yahweh’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you. Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates; that your days and your children’s days may be multiplied in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth. For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you—to do them, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him— then Yahweh will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the western sea shall be your border. No man will be able to stand before you. Yahweh your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you tread on, as he has spoken to you. Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you today; and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn away out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known. It shall happen, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you go to possess, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal. Aren’t they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah near Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh? For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and you shall possess it and dwell in it. You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you today.
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It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
that I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.
I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.
Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away to serve other gods and worship them;
and Yahweh’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.
Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates;
that your days and your children’s days may be multiplied in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you—to do them, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him—
then Yahweh will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the western sea shall be your border.
No man will be able to stand before you. Yahweh your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you tread on, as he has spoken to you.
Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:
the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you today;
and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn away out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.
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And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
And then the LORD’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:
And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
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And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto My commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
And I will give grass in thy fields for thy cattle, and thou shalt eat and be satisfied.
Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
and the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and He shut up the heaven, so that there shall be no rain, and the ground shall not yield her fruit; and ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
Therefore shall ye lay up these My words in your heart and in your soul; and ye shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
And ye shall teach them your children, talking of them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates;
that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, upon the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
For if ye shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to cleave unto Him,
then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall be your border.
There shall no man be able to stand against you: the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as He hath spoken unto you.
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:
the blessing, if ye shall hearken unto the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day;
and the curse, if ye shall not hearken unto the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
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- Isaiah 1:19 (v27) If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;
- Deuteronomy 28:1-14 (v27) It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you…
- Isaiah 3:10 (v27) Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
- Luke 11:28 (v27) But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
- Leviticus 26:3-13 (v27) “ ‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall…
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- John 13:17 (v27) If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
- John 14:21-23 (v27) One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love…
- Psalms 19:11 (v27) Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.
- Romans 2:7 (v27) to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
- James 1:25 (v27) But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be…
- Revelation 22:14 (v27) Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
- Matthew 5:3-12 (v27) “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are…
- Matthew 25:31-46 (v27) “But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. Before him all…
- Colossians 3:16 (v18) Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs,…
- Deuteronomy 6:6-9 (v18) These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of…
- Proverbs 3:1 (v18) My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
- Joshua 14:9 (v24) Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where you walked shall be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you…
- Psalms 119:11 (v18) I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
- 2 Peter 3:1-2 (v18) This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you, that…
- Exodus 13:9 (v18) It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that Yahweh’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong…
- Deuteronomy 6:7 (v19) and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and…
- Proverbs 6:20-23 (v18) My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching. Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your…
- James 5:7 (v14) Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient…
- Exodus 23:27 (v25) I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to…
- Deuteronomy 7:24 (v25) He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the sky. No one will be able to stand before…
- Joshua 1:5 (v25) No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor…
- 2 Peter 1:12 (v18) Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.
- Genesis 15:18-21 (v24) In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great…
- Exodus 23:31 (v24) I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the…
- Deuteronomy 30:1 (v26) It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them…
- Deuteronomy 30:15-20 (v26) Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil. For I command you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in…
- Hebrews 2:1 (vv16, 18) Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
- Exodus 13:16 (v18) It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between your eyes; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought us out of Egypt.”
- Leviticus 26:4 (v14) then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
- Deuteronomy 32:46 (v18) He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all…
- 1 Kings 8:35 (v17) “When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your…
- Proverbs 7:2-3 (v18) Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your…
- Deuteronomy 2:25 (v25) Today I will begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of…
- Deuteronomy 6:15 (v17) for Yahweh your God among you is a jealous God, lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the…
- Deuteronomy 28:12 (v14) Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand.…
- Joshua 5:1 (v25) When all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard…
- 2 Chronicles 6:26 (v17) “When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your…
- Ezekiel 34:26 (v14) I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing. I will cause the shower to come down in its season. There will be showers of…
- Amos 4:7 (v17) “I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused…
- Deuteronomy 4:9-10 (v19) Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all…
- Deuteronomy 4:38 (v23) to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is…
- Joshua 2:9 (v25) She said to the men, “I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants…
- 1 Kings 4:21 (v24) Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and…
- 1 Kings 17:1 (v17) Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there…
- Psalms 34:11 (v19) Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
- Isaiah 38:19 (v19) The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.
- Joel 2:22-23 (v14) Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the…
- Deuteronomy 6:17 (vv13, 22) You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
- Deuteronomy 4:26 (v17) I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to…
- Deuteronomy 4:29 (v13) But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Deuteronomy 6:9 (v20) You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates.
- Deuteronomy 6:11 (v15) and houses full of all good things which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees which you…
- Deuteronomy 10:12 (v13) Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve…
- Deuteronomy 11:13 (v22) It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him…
- Job 31:27 (v16) and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
- Psalms 104:14 (v15) He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:
- Proverbs 2:1 (v19) My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,
- Proverbs 3:2 (v21) for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace.
- Proverbs 4:10 (v21) Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.
- Jeremiah 14:22 (v14) Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore…
- Hebrews 3:12 (v16) Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
- Galatians 3:10 (vv26, 28) For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things…
- Deuteronomy 8:19-20 (v17) It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today…
- Deuteronomy 9:1 (v23) Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and…
- Deuteronomy 10:20 (v22) You shall fear Yahweh your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.
- Deuteronomy 28:23-24 (v17) Your sky that is over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron. Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder…
- Deuteronomy 30:17-18 (v17) But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them, I declare to you today that…
- 2 Chronicles 7:13 (v17) “If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
- 2 Chronicles 9:26 (v24) He ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
- Job 5:10-11 (v14) who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields; so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to…
- Job 37:11-13 (v14) Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning. It is turned around by his guidance, that they…
- Psalms 65:9-13 (v14) You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have…
- Proverbs 9:11 (v21) For by me your days will be multiplied. The years of your life will be increased.
- Joel 2:19 (v15) Yahweh answered his people, “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them; and I will no more make…
- Deuteronomy 4:40 (v21) You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you,…
- Deuteronomy 6:5-6 (v13) You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. These words, which I command you today,…
- Deuteronomy 11:8 (v13) Therefore you shall keep the entire commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land that you…
- Deuteronomy 28:15-68 (v28) But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which…
- Deuteronomy 29:18 (v16) lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of…
- Joshua 1:3-4 (v24) I have given you every place that the sole of your foot will tread on, as I told Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the…
- 1 Kings 4:24 (v24) For he had dominion over all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace…
- Psalms 72:5 (v21) They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.
- Proverbs 4:1-27 (v19) Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding; for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law. For I…
- Jeremiah 14:1-6 (v17) This is Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought. “Judah mourns, and its gates languish. They sit in black on the ground.…
- Haggai 1:9-11 (v17) “You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because…
- Malachi 3:10-11 (v15) Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will…
- Matthew 23:5 (v18) But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,
- James 1:26 (v16) If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is…
- Genesis 2:24 (v22) Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
- Numbers 34:3-15 (v24) then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the…
- Deuteronomy 4:23 (v16) Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of…
- Deuteronomy 8:19 (v16) It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today…
- Deuteronomy 30:17 (v16) But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them,
- Deuteronomy 30:20 (v22) to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in…
- Joshua 23:13-16 (v17) know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv14, 16, 21, 24, 28 In the seed time, and toward harvest.
In the seed time, and toward harvest.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 26 Deu 11:13 And it shall come to pass, if…
Deu 11:13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Ver. 13. And it shall come to pass.] This passage of Scripture following, the Jews read daily in their families, as Maimonides reporteth.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv14, 16, 17, 21, 24, 26, 28 The rain of your land, i.e. which is needful…
The rain of your land, i.e. which is needful and sufficient for your land; or which is proper to your land, not common to Egypt, where, as all authors agree, there is little or no rain.
The first rain and the latter rain; the first fell in seed time, to make the corn spring, the other a little before harvest, to ripen it. See Jer 5:24; Joe 2:23; Amo 4:7; Jam 5:7.
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Matthew Henry 1710 · Public Domain On vv18, 26 Here, I. Moses repeats the directions he had given…
Here, I. Moses repeats the directions he had given for the guidance and assistance of the people in their obedience, and for the keeping up of religion among them (Deu 11:18-20), which is much to the same purport with what we had before, Deu 6:6, etc. Let us all be directed by the three rules here given: - 1. Let our hearts be filled with the word of God: Lay up these words in your heart and in your soul. The heart must be the treasury or store-house in which the word of God must be laid up, to be used upon all occasions. We cannot expect good practices in the conversation, unless there be good thoughts, good affections, and good principles, in the heart. 2. Let our eyes be fixed upon the word of God. "Bind these words for a sign upon your hand, which is always in view (Isa 49:16), and as frontlets between your eyes, which you cannot avoid the sight of; let them be as ready and familiar to you, and have your eye as constantly upon them, as if they were written upon your door-posts, and could not be overlooked either when you go out or when you come in." Thus we must lay God's judgments before us, having a constant regard to them, as the guide of our way, as the rule of our work, Psa 119:30. 3. Let our tongues be employed about the word of God. Let it be the subject of our familiar discourse, wherever we are; especially with our children, who must be taught the service of God, as the one thing needful, much more needful than either the rules of decency or the calling they must live by in this world. Great care and pains must be taken to acquaint children betimes, and to affect them, with the word of God and the wondrous things of his law. Nor will any thing contribute more to the prosperity and perpetuity of religion in a nation than the good education of children: if the seed be holy, it is the substance of a land.
II. He repeats the assurances he had before given them, in God's name, of prosperity and success if they were obedient. 1. They should have a happy settlement, Deu 11:21. Their days should be multiplied; and, when they were fulfilled, the days of their children likewise should be many, as the days of heaven, that is, Canaan should be sure to them and their heirs for ever, as long as the world stands, if they did not by their own sin throw themselves out of it. 2. It should not be in the power of their enemies to give them any disturbance, nor make them upon any account uneasy. "If you will keep God's commandments, and be careful to do your duty (Deu 11:22), God will not only crown the labours of the husbandman with plenty of the fruits of the earth, but he will own and succeed the more glorious undertakings of the men of war. Victory shall attend your arms; which way soever they turn, God will drive out these nations, and put you in possession of their land," Deu 11:23, Deu 11:24. Their territories should be enlarged to the utmost extent of the promise, Gen 15:18. And all their neighbours should stand in awe of them, Deu 11:25. Nothing contributes more to the making of a nation considerable abroad, valuable to its friends and formidable to its enemies, than religion reigning in it; for who can be against those that have God for them? And he is certainly for those that are sincerely for him, Pro 14:34.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not…
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived,.... By observing the influence of the heavens upon the fruitfulness of the earth, and so be drawn to the worship of the host of them, the sun, moon, and stars; or by the examples of nations round about them; and by the plausible arguments they may make use of, taken from the traditions of ancestors, from antiquity, and the consent of nations, and the great numbers of worshippers, and the like:
and ye turn aside; from the true God, and the worship of him; or from the law, as Jarchi, which directs to the worship of one God, and forbids idolatry, or the worshipping of images:
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and serve other gods, and worship them; other gods than the one only living and true God; gods that made not the heavens and the earth, and which cannot give rain, nor any blessing and mercy of life, nor help and deliver their worshippers when in distress.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv14, 15, 17, 18, 21, 24, 26, 28 The ruin of your land - Which is, proper…
The ruin of your land - Which is, proper to your land, not common to Egypt, where, as all authors agree, there is little rain. The first rain fell in seed time, to make the corn spring, the other a little before harvest, to ripen it.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv14, 18, 24, 26 Verse 14. The rain - in his due season,…
Verse 14. The rain - in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain] By the first or former rain we are to understand that which fell in Judea about November, when they sowed their seed, and this served to moisten and prepare the ground for the vegetation of the seed. The latter rain fell about April, when the corn was well grown up, and served to fill the ears, and render them plump and perfect. Rain rarely fell in Judea at any other seasons than these. If the former rain were withheld, or not sent in due season, there could be no vegetation: if the latter rain were withheld, or not sent in its due season, there could be no full corn in the ear, and consequently no harvest. Of what consequence then was it that they should have their rain in due season! God, by promising this provided they were obedient, and threatening to withhold it should they be disobedient, shows that it is not a general providence that directs these things, but that the very rain of heaven falls by particular direction, and the showers are often regulated by an especial providence.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv14, 16, 18, 21, 24, 26, 28 Deu 11:14-15. I will give you — Moses here…
Deu 11:14-15. I will give you — Moses here personates God; or, rather, God speaks by him. The rain of your land — Which is proper to your land, and not common to Egypt, where there is little rain. The first rain and the latter rain — In Judea and the neighbouring countries there is seldom any rain, save at two seasons, about the autumnal and vernal equinox, called the former and latter rain. The first fell about the time of sowing their seed, and served to prepare the ground, and make the grain take root in the earth; and the other when the corn was well grown, toward earing-time, to make the ears full and plump for harvest. I will send grass in thy fields — So godliness has here the promise of the life which now is. But the favour of God puts gladness into the heart more than the increase of corn, wine, and oil.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv14, 21 The first rain and the latter rain - The…
The first rain and the latter rain - The former is the proper term for the autumn rain, falling about the time of sowing, and which may be named “the former,” as occurring in the early part of the Hebrew civil year, namely, in October and November. The other word is applied to the spring rain, which falls in March and April, because it fits the earth for the ingathering of harvest. Between these two wet periods, and except them, there was little or no rain in Canaan.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24, 26 Rain, which falls in Judea, chiefly about the vernal…
Rain, which falls in Judea, chiefly about the vernal and the autumnal equinoxes, in March and October. --- The latter rain (Hebrew malkosh,) is that which falls when the seed is just sown, though the Rabbins pretend that yore has this signification, in opposition to the Septuagint. It fell at the beginning of the Jewish year, which commenced in September, Joel ii. 23., and Zacharias x. 1. (Calmet) --- Rain contributed to make the seeds take root, and to bring the fruit to maturity, and God promises to give what may be requisite, provided his people serve him with fidelity. (Haydock) --- His grace helps us to begin and to perfect every good work. (Worthington)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv14, 15, 18, 24, 26 the first rain and the latter rain--The early rain…
the first rain and the latter rain--The early rain commenced in autumn, that is, chiefly during the months of September and October, while the latter rain fell in the spring of the year, that is, during the months of March and April. It is true that occasional showers fell all the winter; but, at the autumnal and vernal seasons, they were more frequent, copious, and important; for the early rain was necessary, after a hot and protracted summer, to prepare the soil for receiving the seed; and the latter rain, which shortly preceded the harvest, was of the greatest use in invigorating the languishing powers of vegetation (Jer 5:24; Joe 2:23; Amo 4:7; Jam 5:7).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv13, 14, 21, 24, 26 13. Hearken — Jehovah is now speaking. The passage,…
13. Hearken — Jehovah is now speaking. The passage, 13-21, is one of the four that the Jews placed in their phylacteries.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 26 13. The verse is not only in the Pl.…
13. The verse is not only in the Pl. and a repetition of certain formulas, but it also changes the speaker (my commandments can only mean God’s). It is evidently inserted by an editor (so too Steuern. and Bertholet) (who also altered the opening of the next verse, q.v.) because he thought it again necessary to safeguard the promise by repeating the usual deuteronomic condition. But the condition breaks into the theme of the writer which for the moment is only the contrast between the two lands. On the contents of the v. see on Deu_10:12.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26 (13) It shall come to pass.—At this point begins…
(13) It shall come to pass.—At this point begins the formal sanction of this charge by a declaration of rewards and punishments. Such sanctions are a characteristic feature of the Law. (Comp. Exo_23:20—end, at the close of the first code; Leviticus 26, and Deuteronomy 28; and, in the New Testament, the well-known close of the Sermon on the Mount in St. Matthew 7, and of the parallel sermon in St. Luke 6 )
To love the Lord your God.—“Not that thou shouldst say, ‘Behold, I am a disciple in order that I may become rich: in order that I may be called great: in order that I may receive reward; “but whatsoever ye do, do from love” (Rashi).
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To serve him with all your heart.—The Jewish commentator says that this refers to prayer, and compares Daniel (Deu_6:16): “Thy God whom thou servest continually, He will deliver thee.” There was no religious service for Israel in Babylon except prayer. The thought seems worth preserving, though the words are obviously capable of a wider application.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 26, 28 Being thus wholly dependent on God, it behooved them…
Being thus wholly dependent on God, it behooved them to be careful to attend to his commandments and to obey them, that so his blessing might be continued to them and to the laud. If they would love and serve the Lord as they were bound to do, he would give them the rain of their land, i.e. rain for their land, such as it required (cf. "rain of thy seed,", Psa_30:2, Psa_30:3) in the proper season, the early and the latter rain, so that they should fully enjoy the benefits of the land.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain On vv16, 18, 19, 26 Take heed . . . that your heart be…
Deu_11:16-17
Take heed . . . that your heart be not deceived.
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Religion no humbug
I. Let us not be deceived in our ideas about God.
1. Let us not be deceived in thinking that our heavenly Father is partly good and partly bad.
2. Let not your heart be deceived in thinking that God cannot pardon the one who supposes himself or herself to be the worst. We all do wrong, in some sense or another; and when the thought of our sin weighs down our hearts, let us feel persuaded that God can forgive us. But do not mistake His pardon by thinking that when He forgives us, there is an end of it. Here is a careless weaver at work, throwing the shuttle containing the weft. When she has got half through the warp, she finds she has made an error in the pattern, and when the overlooker unwinds the piece he discovers the flaw running through the whole. Well, what is to be done? She says, O, do forgive me! He replies, Certainly I will; but you know it must be undone. It is weary work undoing a web of long threads; but nobody would buy that piece as it is. So the weaver begins with the last thread and pulls it out from side to side and begins again. Likewise, though the Lord forgives us, we must undo the bad life. As the kindly overlooker stands beside the weaver, saying, Let me help you, so the Lord stands by us to help us to amend the tangled web of our life. While God forgives us and inspires our heart, the rectification of what is wrong must, however, be our own act. We must undo our bad life by beginning afresh.
II. Do not be deceived in your views concerning religion. Religion is not a theory; it is the living spirit of usefulness. Religion that does not inspire us to be pure ourselves and useful to others is not the true Christian religion; it is a humbug. Religion will comfort your own heart and make you a blessing wherever you go. While it teaches you to fight against your evil propensities, it trains you to be kind-hearted at home and peaceable-minded abroad. In leading you down the steps of true humility, it exalts you to the noblest manhood; and while constraining you to surrender your will to the Christ-spirit, it gives you the glorious power of God-likeness. A minister was on one occasion preaching on peaceableness, having special reference to Messrs. Pincher and Stiggins, two of his deacons who had long been at daggers point. Such was his faithful earnestness that the whole congregation was moved, and when the benediction was pronounced, Mr. Pincher went across the chapel to the other, and with tears in his eyes, remarked, Brother Stiggins, after such a sermon there must be peace between us. Now, I cant give in, so you must! The other replied, Well, Brother Pincher, if you wont give in, Im blessed if I will! You see, they were religious in theory but not in practical life.
III. We should not be deceived in our thoughts about the invisible world called heaven and hell. If you have good things in this world, and do not care for the destitute, you cannot have good things in the other world. (W. Birch.)
A caution against deception
I. An evil anticipated. That of having the heart deceived.
1. The scantiness and imperfection of human knowledge.
2. The deceitfulness of the heart.
3. The deceitfulness of sin.
4. The deceitfulness of the world.
5. The deceitfulness of the devil.
Such are the reasons we have for believing that our hearts may be deceived. But the text assumes that this deception is an evil pregnant with very pernicious consequences. And this appears from the consideration, that those whose hearts are deceived are involved in a state of the most palpable error. What tradesman would wish to make errors in his accounts? What scholar would not guard against error in his sums? But these errors are trivial, when compared to the grievous error in which those are involved whose hearts are deceived concerning their salvation and their God. Nor is this all; those whose hearts are deceived, are exposed to extreme danger.
II. The caution urged against this deception. Take heed to yourselves, etc.
1. Be alive to a sense of your extreme danger. Let us consider what we are--how deeply fallen! Let us weigh well our circumstances, dangers, and enemies; this will lay the foundation for caution and circumspection.
2. Seek for the illuminating and sanctifying influences of the Holy Spirit; O, seek His influence by fervent, importunate prayer. Take heed to yourselves.
3. By the constant practice of self-examination.
4. By watching over yourselves. Watch and pray. Be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. Watch thou in all things. Watchfulness will lead you to keep a strict guard over your thoughts, words, actions. (Sketches of Four Hundred Sermons.)
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Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain On vv18, 26 Obedience Enjoined
Obedience Enjoined
v. 18. Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, stamp them indelibly on both reason and will, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes,
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v. 19. and ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down and when thou risest up.
v. 20. And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thine house and upon thy gates. Cf Deu 6:6-9. This passage is an excellent summary of hints for the bringing up of children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, namely, through the constant use and application of the Word of God,
v. 21. That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, this blessing being again made prominent, in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth, that is, as long as the heaven, with its rich blessings, stands over the earth, so long shall Israel, if faithful to the Lord and His covenant, enjoy the riches of Canaan.
v. 22. For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the Lord, your God, to walk in all His ways, and to cleave unto Him, Deu 10:20;
v. 23. then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, Deu 4:38, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves, that is, enter into their possessions, inherit their land.
v. 24. Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours; from the wilderness, namely, that of Arabia in the south and southeast, and Lebanon, in the north, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be, extending to the Mediterranean Sea on the west.
v. 25. There shall no man be able to stand before you; for the Lord, your God, shall lay the fear of you, Deu 2:25, and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, into the hearts of all the inhabitants of these countries, as He hath said unto you, Deu 7:24; Exo 23:27. All these promises were intended for the purpose of filling the Israelites with good cheer and courage, of strengthening their trust in the Lord.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv13, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26 It will happen, if
It will happen, if
This means that what Yahweh promises will happen if the Israelites obey his commands.
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that I command
Here "I" refers to Moses.
with all your heart and with all your soul
The idiom "with all your heart" means "completely" and "with ... soul" means "with all your being." These two phrases have similar meanings. See how you translated this in Deuteronomy 4:29. AT: "with all your being" or "with all your energy" (See: Idiom and Doublet)
I will give the rain of your land in its season
"I will cause it to rain on your land in the proper season"
I will give
Here "I" refers to Yahweh. This can be stated in the third person. AT: "Yahweh will give" or "He will give"
the former rain and the latter rain
This refers to rain at the beginning of the sowing season and rain for maturing the crops for harvest. AT: "the autumn rain and spring rain" or "the rain in the right seasons"
translationWords
command
love
Yahweh
God
servant
heart
soul
grain
wine
oil
cow
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv24, 26 11:24 you set foot (literally you tread the sole…
11:24 you set foot (literally you tread the sole of your foot): This idea suggests claiming a territory by placing a foot on it or walking through it (see Gen 13:17; Josh 1:3; 14:9).
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