Deuteronomy 11:21
so that your days are multiplied, and the days of your sons, on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers to give to them, as the days of the heavens on the earth.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
20and hast written them on the side-posts of thy house, and on thy gates,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:40and thou hast kept His statutes and His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, so that it is well to thee, and to thy sons after thee, and so that thou prolongest days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee — all the days.'
Deuteronomy 6:2so that thou dost fear Jehovah thy God, to keep all His statutes and His commands, which I am commanding thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all days of thy life, and so that thy days are prolonged.
Psalms 72:5They fear Thee with the sun, and before the moon, Generation — generations.
Psalms 89:30If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk;
Proverbs 3:16Length of days [is] in her right hand, In her left [are] wealth and honour.
Proverbs 9:11For by me do thy days multiply, And added to thee are 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 →