Deuteronomy 11:21
so that your days are multiplied, and the days of your sons, on the ground which YHWH has sworn to your fathers to give to them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
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In Context
20and have written them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:40and you have kept His statutes and His commands which I am commanding you today, so that it is well for you, and for your sons after you, and so that you prolong days on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you—all the days.”
Deuteronomy 6:2so that you fear your God YHWH, to keep all His statutes and His commands which I am commanding you, you, and your son, and your son’s son, all [the] days of your life, and so that your days are prolonged.
Psalms 72:5They fear You with the sun, and before the moon, || Generation—generations.
Psalms 89:30If his sons forsake My law, || And do not walk in My judgments;
Proverbs 3:16Length of days [is] in her right hand, || In her left [are] wealth and honor.
Proverbs 9:11For by me your days multiply, || And years of life are added to you.
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 →