Deuteronomy 11:21
that your days may multiply, and the days of your children, upon the soil which Yahweh sware unto your fathers, to give unto them,—like the days of the heavens upon the earth.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
20and thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house and within thy gates:
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:40So shalt thou keep his statutes and his commandments which, I, am commanding thee to-day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy sons after thee,—and to the end thou mayest prolong thy days upon the soil, which Yahweh thy God, is giving thee, all the days.
Deuteronomy 6:2that thou mayest revere Yahweh thy God, [so as] to keep all his statutes and his commandments which I am commanding thee, thou and thy son and thy sons’ son, all the days of thy life,—and that thy days may be prolonged.
Psalms 72:5Let men revere thee, With the sun, And in presence of the moon, Unto the remotest generation.
Psalms 89:30If his sons forsake my law, And, in my regulations, do not walk;
Proverbs 3:16Length of days, is in her right hand, in her left, are riches and honour;
Proverbs 9:11For, by me, shall be multiplied—thy days, and there be added to thee—the years of life.
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 →