Exodus 20:2

Sermon Bible Commentary - Exodus 20:1-2

Exodus 20:1-2 The Ten Commandments hold a conspicuous position in that prolonged revelation of Himself, of His character, His will, and His relations to mankind, which God made to the Jewish people. They can, therefore, never become obsolete. The changing circumstances of the human race cannot destroy the significance and worth of any institutions or facts which reveal the life of God. I. The Ten Commandments rest on the principle that God claims authority over the moral life of man. He claimed... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Exodus 20:2-3

Exodus 20:2-3 I. This commandment does not tell the Jew that the gods worshipped by other nations have no existence; it tells him that he must offer them no homage, and that from him they must receive no recognition of their authority and power. The Jew must serve Jehovah, and Jehovah alone. This was the truest method of securing the ultimate triumph of monotheism. A religious dogma, true or false, perishes if it is not rooted in the religious affections and sustained by religious observances.... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Exodus 20:1-26

Chapter 20And God spake these words, saying ( Exodus 20:1 ),Now the people said, "All that the Lord commands, we will do." All right this is what the Lord has spoken. Now these are the commandments of God.I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, and out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me ( Exodus 20:2-3 ).First of all, "I am Jehovah thy God." The word Jehovah is a beautiful word; it is a verb which means, "the becoming one". A word... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 20:1-26

Exodus 20:1. God spake all these words. In compassion to man, and the increasing weakness of human traditions, it has pleased the infinitely wise and Holy One to renew the evidences of revelation at fit and proper periods: and he has promised to do this again at the commencement of the glory of the latter day. Isaiah 65:17. Ezekiel 43:0. Zechariah 14:4. Acts 3:21. David, celebrating this glorious scene, Psalms 18:13, regards God as the speaker. “The Highest gave his voice.” The chariots of... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Exodus 20:1-2

Exodus 20:1-2God spake all these words.The Ten Words of GodI. Those Ten Commandments were to the Jews the very utterance of the Eternal, and they hold in their grand imagination that the souls of all Jews even yet unborn were summoned to Sinai in their numbers numberless to hear that code; so that, in the East, to this day, if a Jew would indignantly deny the imputation of a wrong, he exclaims, “My soul too has been on Sinai.” And not to Jews only but to all mankind there is this proof that the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Exodus 20:2

Exo 20:2 I [am] the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Ver. 2. Which have brought thee. ] God’s blessings are binders; and every deliverance a tie to obedience. See Trapp (for summary of Law) on " Exo 20:17 " read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Exodus 20:2

the Lord: Genesis 17:7, Genesis 17:8, Leviticus 26:1, Leviticus 26:13, Deuteronomy 5:6, Deuteronomy 6:4, Deuteronomy 6:5, 2 Chronicles 28:5, Psalms 50:7, Psalms 81:10, Jeremiah 31:1, Jeremiah 31:33, Hosea 13:4, Romans 3:29, Romans 10:12 brought: Exodus 10:1 - Exodus 15:27, Leviticus 19:36, Leviticus 23:43 out of the: Exodus 13:3, Deuteronomy 5:15, Deuteronomy 7:8, Deuteronomy 13:10, Deuteronomy 15:15, Deuteronomy 26:6-Ruth : bondage: Heb. servants Reciprocal: Exodus 1:14 - was with rigour... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Exodus 20:2

I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. I am the Lord thy God — Herein, God asserts his own authority to enact this law; and proposeth himself as the sole object of that religious worship which is enjoined in the four first commandments. They are here bound to obedience1. Because God is the Lord, Jehovah, self-existent, independent, eternal, and the fountain of all being and power; therefore he has an incontestable right to command... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 20:1-17

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, Exodus 20:1-17. The preceding chapter has furnished an awe-inspiring preparation for the announcement of the fundamental law which here follows. Nothing in all the myths, legends, or histories of law-giving among other peoples is comparable with this sublime issuing of Israel’s decalogue. And the marvelous perfection of this summary of law, the inner excellency, the universal applicability of the several precepts, and their abiding, unchangeable nature, elevate this... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 20:2

2. I am the Lord thy God Many of the Jews, as we have seen above, regard this verse as the first of the ten words, or commandments, but they are rather of the nature of an introduction, showing emphatically the origin and source of the commandments . As the Eternal God, the I AM of previous revelation, (Exodus 3:14-15,) he appropriately announces his NAME, and mentions the redemption from Egypt as a ground of obligation for Israel to hear and keep his commandments . The singular form of... read more

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