Deuteronomy 6:20
When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD our God has commanded you mean?”
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In Context
19to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.
Cross References
Exodus 10:2and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done amongst them; that you may know that I am the LORD.”
Exodus 13:14It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.
Joshua 4:6that this may be a sign amongst you, that when your children ask in the future, saying, ‘What do you mean by these stones?’
Proverbs 22:6Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 6:18-25
A Charge to Israel. ( b. c. 1451.) 17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee. 18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord : that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, 19 To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath spoken. 20 And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the… Read the whole commentary →