Exodus 20:1-3

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

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Exodus 20:3

Exodus 20:3Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.The First CommandmentI. This Commandment does not tell the Jews 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... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Exodus 20:1

Exo 20:1 And God spake all these words, saying, Ver. 1. God spake all, &c. ] All the ten are of divine authority. Papists disannulling the second, that yet they may retain the number of ten words, so loath are heretics to have their asses’ ears seen, divide the last, which yet is called "the commandment," not the commandments. Rom 7:7 Vasques, not able to answer our argument, saith that the second commandment belonged to the Jews only. See Trapp (for summary of Law) on " Exo 20:17 " 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

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Exodus 20:3

Exo 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Ver. 3. Thou shalt have. ] This "thou" reacheth every man. Xenophon saith of Cyrus, that when he gave anything in command, he never said, Let some one do this; but, Do thou this. a No other gods before me. ] But "know" and "serve" me alone "with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind." 1Ch 28:9 Hoc primo praecepto reliquorum omnium observantia praecipitur, saith Luther. In this first commandment the keeping of all the other nine is... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Exodus 20:1

Deuteronomy 4:33, Deuteronomy 4:36, Deuteronomy 5:4, Deuteronomy 5:22, Acts 7:38, Acts 7:53 Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 9:10 - all the words Deuteronomy 10:4 - which Nehemiah 9:13 - spakest Psalms 147:19 - word John 1:17 - the law Hebrews 12:19 - and the voice 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

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Exodus 20:3

Exodus 15:11, Deuteronomy 5:7, Deuteronomy 6:5, Deuteronomy 6:14, Joshua 24:18-Jeremiah :, 2 Kings 17:29-Habakkuk :, Psalms 29:2, Psalms 73:25, Psalms 81:9, Isaiah 26:4, Isaiah 43:10, Isaiah 44:8, Isaiah 45:21, Isaiah 45:22, Isaiah 46:9, Jeremiah 25:6, Jeremiah 35:15, Matthew 4:10, 1 Corinthians 8:4, 1 Corinthians 8:6, Ephesians 5:5, Philippians 3:19, Colossians 2:18, 1 John 5:20, 1 John 5:21, Revelation 19:10, Revelation 22:9 Reciprocal: Genesis 35:2 - strange Exodus 20:23 - General Exodus... read more

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