_AND MOSES CALLED ALL ISRAEL, AND SAID UNTO THEM, HEAR, O ISRAEL, THE STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS WHICH I SPEAK IN YOUR EARS THIS DAY, THAT YE MAY LEARN THEM, AND KEEP, AND DO THEM._ Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments. Whether this rehearsal of the law was made in a solemn assembly, or, as some... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE LORD OUR GOD MADE A COVENANT WITH US IN HOREB._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE LORD MADE NOT THIS COVENANT WITH OUR FATHERS, BUT WITH US, EVEN US, WHO ARE ALL OF US HERE ALIVE THIS DAY._ The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us. The meaning is, not "with our fathers" only, "but with us" also, assuming it to be a "covenant" of grace; or, not "with our... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE LORD TALKED WITH YOU FACE TO FACE IN THE MOUNT OUT OF THE MIDST OF THE FIRE,_ The Lord talked with you face to face - not in a visible and corporeal form, of which there was no trace (Deuteronomy 4:12; Deuteronomy 4:15), but freely, familiarly, and in such a manner that no doubt could be enter... [ Continue Reading ]
_(I STOOD BETWEEN THE LORD AND YOU AT THAT TIME, TO SHEW YOU THE WORD OF THE LORD: FOR YE WERE AFRAID BY REASON OF THE FIRE, AND WENT NOT UP INTO THE MOUNT;) SAYING,_ (I STOOD BETWEEN THE LORD AND YOU) - as the messenger and interpreter of thy heavenly King, bringing near two objects formerly remove... [ Continue Reading ]
_I AM THE LORD THY GOD, WHICH BROUGHT THEE OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, FROM THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE._ I am the Lord thy God. The word "Lord" is expressive of authority or dominion; and God, who by natural claim as well as by covenant relation was entitled to exercise supremacy over His people Israel, ha... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU SHALT HAVE NONE OTHER GODS BEFORE ME._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_KEEP THE SABBATH DAY TO SANCTIFY IT, AS THE LORD THY GOD HATH COMMANDED THEE._ Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord ... - i:e., keep it in mind as a sacred institution of former enactment and perpetual obligation.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SIX DAYS THOU SHALT LABOUR, AND DO ALL THY WORK:_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THE SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH OF THE LORD THY GOD: IN IT THOU SHALT NOT DO ANY WORK, THOU, NOR THY SON, NOR THY DAUGHTER, NOR THY MANSERVANT, NOR THY MAIDSERVANT, NOR THINE OX, NOR THINE ASS, NOR ANY OF THY CATTLE, NOR THY STRANGER THAT IS WITHIN THY GATES; THAT THY MANSERVANT AND THY MAIDSERV... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND REMEMBER THAT THOU WAST A SERVANT IN THE LAND OF EGYPT, AND THAT THE LORD THY GOD BROUGHT THEE OUT THENCE THROUGH A MIGHTY HAND AND BY A STRETCHED OUT ARM: THEREFORE THE LORD THY GOD COMMANDED THEE TO KEEP THE SABBATH DAY._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_HONOUR THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER, AS THE LORD THY GOD HATH COMMANDED THEE; THAT THY DAYS MAY BE PROLONGED, AND THAT IT MAY GO WELL WITH THEE, IN THE LAND WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE._ That it may go well with thee. This clause is not in Exodus 20:11, but admitted into Ephesians 6:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU SHALT NOT KILL._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NEITHER SHALT THOU DESIRE THY NEIGHBOUR'S WIFE, NEITHER SHALT THOU COVET THY NEIGHBOUR'S HOUSE, HIS FIELD, OR HIS MANSERVANT, OR HIS MAIDSERVANT, HIS OX, OR HIS ASS, OR ANY THING THAT IS THY NEIGHBOUR'S._ Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife ... house and field. An alteration is here mad... [ Continue Reading ]
_THESE WORDS THE LORD SPAKE UNTO ALL YOUR ASSEMBLY IN THE MOUNT OUT OF THE MIDST OF THE FIRE, OF THE CLOUD, AND OF THE THICK DARKNESS, WITH A GREAT VOICE: AND HE ADDED NO MORE. AND HE WROTE THEM IN TWO TABLES OF STONE, AND DELIVERED THEM UNTO ME._ He added no more - (Exodus 20:1.) The preeminence o... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN YE HEARD THE VOICE OUT OF THE MIDST OF THE DARKNESS, (FOR THE MOUNTAIN DID BURN WITH FIRE,) THAT YE CAME NEAR UNTO ME, EVEN ALL THE HEADS OF YOUR TRIBES, AND YOUR ELDERS;_ And ... ye came near unto me - (see the note at Exodus 20:19.)... [ Continue Reading ]
_O THAT THERE WERE SUCH AN HEART IN THEM, THAT THEY WOULD FEAR ME, AND KEEP ALL MY COMMANDMENTS ALWAYS, THAT IT MIGHT BE WELL WITH THEM, AND WITH THEIR CHILDREN FOR EVER!_ O that there were such an heart in them! God can bestow such a heart, and has promised to give it wherever it is asked (Jeremia... [ Continue Reading ]