Deuteronomy 8:1
You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers.
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Deuteronomy 1:8Behold, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers—to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob—to give to them and to their offspring after them.’”
Deuteronomy 5:32You shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left.
Deuteronomy 8:18But you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.
1 Thessalonians 4:1Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 8:1
Moses had charged parents in teaching their children to whet the word of God upon them ( ch. vi. 7 ) by frequent repetition of the same things over and over again; and here he himself takes the same method of instructing the Israelites as his children, frequently inculcating the same precepts and cautions, with the same motives or arguments to enforce them, that what they heard so often might abide with them. In this chapter Moses gives them, I. General exhortations to obedience, ver. 1 , 6 . II. A review of the… Read the whole commentary →