5 Mosebok 6:24

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Och HERREN bjöd oss att göra efter all dessa stadgar och att frukta HERREN, vår Gud, för att det alltid skulle gå oss väl, i det att han behölle oss vid liv, såsom ock hittills har skett.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

to fear: Deuteronomy 6:2

for our good: Deuteronomy 10:13, Job 35:7, Job 35:8, Proverbs 9:12, Isaiah 3:10, Jeremiah 32:39, Matthew 6:33, Romans 6:21, Romans 6:22

he might: Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 4:4, Deuteronomy 8:1, Deuteronomy 8:3, Psalms 41:2, Psalms 66:9, Proverbs 22:4, Romans 10:5

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 29:28 - as it is this day

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes,.... Some of which were designed on purpose to commemorate the wonderful deliverance out of Egypt, as particularly the passover; and all of them they were obliged in gratitude to obey, in consideration of such great favours bestowed upon them:

to fear the Lord our God, for our good always: as it is always for the good of men, temporal, spiritual, and eternal, to fear the Lord; for there is no want to them that fear him, nor will the Lord withhold good things from them; see Psalms 34:9,

that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day; in bodily health and strength, and in the enjoyment of the good land, and all the blessings and benefits of it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Israelites were at the point of quitting a normal, life for a fixed and settled abode in the midst of other nations; they were exchanging a condition of comparative poverty for great and goodly cities, houses and vineyards. There was therefore before them a double danger;

(1) a God-forgetting worldliness, and

(2) a false tolerance of the idolatries practiced by those about to become their neighbors.

The former error Moses strives to guard against in the verses before us; the latter in Deuteronomy 7:1-11.

Deuteronomy 6:13

The command “to swear by His Name” is not inconsistent with the Lord’s injunction Matthew 5:34, “Swear not at all.” Moses refers to legal swearing, our Lord to swearing in common conversation. It is not the purpose of Moses to encourage the practice of taking oaths, but to forbid that, when taken, they should be taken in any other name than that of Israel’s God. The oath involves an invocation of Deity, and so a solemn recognition of Him whose Name is made use of in it. Hence, it comes especially within the scope of the commandment Moses is enforcing.

Deuteronomy 6:25

It shall be our righteousness - i. e., God will esteem us as righteous and deal with us accordingly. From the very beginning made Moses the whole righteousness of the Law to depend entirely on a right state of the heart, in one word, upon faith.