Deuteronomy 5:33
For you shall walk in the way that the Lord your God has instructed, so that you may live, and it may be well with you, and your days may be extended in the land of your possession.’”
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Deuteronomy 5:16Honor your father and mother, just as the Lord your God has instructed you, so that you may live a long time, and so that it may be well with you in the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.
Deuteronomy 8:1“All the commandments which I am entrusting to you this day, take care to observe them diligently, so that you may live and be multiplied, and so that, upon entering, you may possess the land, about which the Lord swore to your fathers.
Deuteronomy 29:8And we took their land and delivered it as a possession to Ruben and to Gad, and to half of the tribe of Manasseh.
1 Kings 3:14And if you will walk in my ways, and keep my precepts and my commandments, just as your father walked, I will lengthen your days.”
1 Chronicles 28:8Now therefore, before the entire assembly of Israel, in the hearing of our God, keep and seek all the commandments of the Lord our God, so that you may possess the good land, and may bequeath it to your sons after you, even forever.
Psalms 37:11My heart has been disturbed. My strength has abandoned me, and the light of my eyes has abandoned me, and it is not with me.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 5:24-33
23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; 24 And ye said, Behold, the Lord our God hath showed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth. 25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the Lord our… Read the whole commentary →