Deuteronomy 11:21
that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Jehovah swore unto your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens [which are] above the earth.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
20and write them upon the posts of thy house, and upon thy gates;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:40And thou shalt keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may be well with thee and with thy sons after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days on the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, for ever.
Deuteronomy 6:2that thou mayest fear Jehovah thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
Psalms 72:5They shall fear thee as long as sun and moon endure, from generation to generation.
Psalms 89:30If his sons forsake my law, and walk not in mine ordinances;
Proverbs 3:16Length of days is in her right hand; in her left hand riches and honour.
Proverbs 9:11For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and years of life shall be added to thee.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 11:19-26
18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: 21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord… Read the whole commentary →