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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 6
Moses proclaims: The Lord our God is one Lord; and, Thou shalt love the
Lord they God—Israel commanded to teach their children—Moses
exhorts Israel to keep commandments and testimonies and statutes of the Lord,
that they may prosper.
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1 Now these are the commandments, the
astatutes, and the bjudgments, which the
LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the
land whither ye go to possess it:
2 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep
all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy
son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be
aprolonged.
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3 ¶ Hear therefore, O Israel, and
aobserve to do it; that it may be well with thee,
and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath
promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
4 aHear, O Israel: The LORD our God
is bone LORD:
5 And thou shalt alove the LORD thy
God with all thine bheart, and with all thy soul, and with
all thy cmight.
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6 And these awords, which I command
thee this day, shall be in thine bheart:
7 And thou shalt ateach them
diligently unto thy children, and shalt btalk of them when
thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou
liest down, and when thou risest up.
8 And thou shalt abind them for a
bsign upon thine hand, and they shall be as
cfrontlets between thine eyes.
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9 And thou shalt write them upon the
aposts of thy house, and on thy gates.
10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
11 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
12 Then beware lest thou
aforget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land
of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
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13 Thou shalt afear the LORD thy
God, and bserve him, and shalt cswear by
his name.
14 Ye shall not go after aother
bgods, of the gods of the
peoplea which are round
about you;
15 (For the LORD thy God is a
ajealous God among you) lest the banger
of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the
face of the earth.
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14a the gods of the people
The times and season of the people do change, and so do the various gods of
the people also. What does a person place as being first in his life? Is that
not that person's god? And when we devote our time and effort in that number
one above all other interests, are we not so worshipping that as our god? Now
today the people's gods do vary. To some it is sports, perhaps the sport of
their choice or even a multiplicity of sports. Perhaps some do chase after
the draw of electronic technology, computers, I-pad, I-phone, etc. Perhaps it
is the draw of creature satisfactions in drugs and in lusts and in seeking
after that which empowers or even satisfies one's false sense of belonging
to something or some group. Fads and Fashions can be such gods as some do
worship. Even wealth and money become the gods of others. Today, just about
anything can become a person's god of worship when they go to the extreme of
placing it above all else and particularly above the Lord our one true God.
In today's society, what people once had little time for may become one's
god of choice, merely consider what is a person's dominating 'leisure time
pursuits' and how devoted to them one becomes seemingly above all else. From
another perspective, one ought to consider what it is that is distracting
oneself from the devlopment of their personal relationship with God. In
that which so distracts, one may well find the false god which they have
chosen above and beyond the Lord our God.
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16 ¶ Ye shall not atempt the
LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
17 Ye shall adiligently keep the
bcommandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies,
and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
18 And thou shalt do that which is
aright and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be
well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which
the LORD bsware unto thy fathers,
19 To acast out all thine enemies
from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.
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20 And when thy son aasketh
thee in time to come, saying, What mean the
btestimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which
the LORD our God hath commanded you?
21 Then thou shalt say unto thy
ason, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD
brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
22 And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and
asore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household,
before our eyes:
23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.
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24 And the LORD acommanded us to do
all these statutes, to bfear the LORD our God, for our
cgood always, that he might dpreserve us
alive, as it is at this day.
25 And it shall be our
arighteousness, if we bobserve to do all
these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
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