Deuteronomy 11:21
In order that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord swore unto your fathers to give unto them, as the days of the heavens over the earth.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
20And thou shalt write them upon the door-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 go well with thee, and with thy children after thee; and that thou mayest live many days upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for all times.
Deuteronomy 6:2In order that you mayest fear the Lord 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 in order that thy days may be prolonged.
Psalms 72:5They shall fear thee as long as the sun shineth, and in the presence of the moon, throughout all generations.
Psalms 89:30(89:31) If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my ordinances;
Proverbs 3:16Length of days is in her right hand: in her left are riches and honor.
Proverbs 9:11For through me shall thy days be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased unto 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 →