deuteronomy-6:5

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 6:4-5

4,5 Here is a brief summary of religion, containing the first principles of faith and obedience. Jehovah our God is the only living and true God; he only is God, and he is but One God. Let us not desire to have any other. The three-fold mention of the Divine names, and the plural number of the word translated God, seem plainly to intimate a Trinity of persons, even in this express declaration of the unity of the Godhead. Happy those who have this one Lord for their God. It is better to have one... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Deuteronomy 6:1-15

The Emphatic Admonition v. 1. Now, these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, the general laws, the special ordinances which concerned Israel as the covenant people, and the observances which flow from the obligations which men owe to God and to their fellow-men, which the Lord, your God, commanded to teach you that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it; v. 2. that thou mightest fear the Lord, thy God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Deuteronomy 6:4-25

Hortatory Exposition of the First Two CommandsDeuteronomy 6:4 to Deuteronomy 11:32The First Commandment. (Deuteronomy 6:4 to Deuteronomy 8:20)Deuteronomy 6:4-254Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord. 5And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6And these words which I command [am commanding] thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7and thou shalt teach [sharpen] them diligently unto thy children [sons], and shalt talk of them... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:1-19

How to Treat God’s Words Deuteronomy 6:1-19 Obedience is still the one condition of true prosperity and success. Lands still flow with milk and honey; and they live long who live well. Lives are measured by heart-throbs, and not by figures on the dial. Deuteronomy 6:4 is reckoned by pious Jews as one of the choicest portions of Scripture. They write it on their phylacteries and repeat it, with other verses, at least twice a day. Note the various methods for maintaining the religious... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 6:1-25

The appeal of Moses was now elaborated in a great statement on the deepest value of the commandment and the corresponding responsibilities of the people Observe the peculiar form of the opening statement, "Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments." The very form suggested the unification of plurality and evidently was intended to do so, for it led to the statement, "Jehovah our God is one Jehovah." Here Jehovah was used as name and as title, its supreme value, of course,... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:4-7

THE CENTRAL TRUTH OF BIBLICAL RELIGION‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk 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.’ Deuteronomy 6:4-Judges : This... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 6:5

THE GREAT COMMANDMENT‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God.’ Deuteronomy 6:5 The teaching of the text is that the ‘one God’ must be ‘loved’ and served by the whole man. Consider how the love of God is to be cultivated. I. We cannot love an abstraction.—God must be a personal God before we can love Him. We must have a sense of property in Him. He must be our own God. II. Presence is essential to love, even in human love. If we have not a presence in fact, we always make it in fancy. There is an... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 6:4-15

The Essence Of The Covenant Is Love For Yahweh And They Must Look To No One Else (Deuteronomy 6:4-15 ). For in this is the essence of the covenant, that they might recognise Yahweh as their one God and their one Lord, their only one, so that their worshipping love might be centred totally on Him, and on no one else. Analysis: a ‘Hear, O Israel. Yahweh our God, Yahweh is one (Deuteronomy 6:4). b And you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Deuteronomy 6:4 to Deuteronomy 11:32 . General precepts resting upon the doctrine that Yahweh is the only true God. Deuteronomy 6:4-1 Samuel : . Called by Jews the Shema from the first word—“ Hear.” The Shema, with other words from Scripture, is written on the parchment in the two phylacteries and in the door mezuzah, but that Deuteronomy 6:8 f. had no reference to such practices is evident from the context and from Exodus 13:9-Nehemiah :, Proverbs 1:9; Proverbs 3:3; Proverbs 6:21 where... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 6:5

Now he shows another spring or principle of sincere obedience to God, even hearty love to God, which will make his work and service easy; and that the fear he mentioned before, Deuteronomy 6:2, was such as would consist with love to God, and not that slavish fear and honour which produceth hatred. read more