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Deuteronomy 6:15

(For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

(For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you) - literally, in the midst of you. The threatening in this verse, annexed to Deuteronomy 6:14, was probably applicable to violations both of the first and second commandments, (see the notes at Exodus 20:5; Exodus 34:1.)

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See also Deuteronomy 6:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 6:15. _A JEALOUS GOD_] Jehovah has _betrothed_ you to himself as a bride is to her husband. Do not be unfaithful, else that _love_ wherewith he has now distinguished you shall assume...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The Israelites were at the point of quitting a normal, life for a fixed and settled abode in the midst of other nations; they were exchanging a condition of comparative poverty for great and goodly ci...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    2. THE FIRST COMMANDMENT AND WHAT IT INVOLVES CHAPTER 6 _ 1. Hear, therefore, O Israel! (Deuteronomy 6:1)_ 2. The first commandment (Deuteronomy 6:4) 3. The remembrance of these words and practica...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    In the land promised them they will be tempted to substitute Canaanite deities for Yahweh and to swear by them. Oaths formed part of the social and commercial fabric of the time, and they are not forb...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DESTROY. cut off: exterminate. Hebrew. _shamad._ EARTH. Hebrew. _'adamah,_ ground, cultivated land....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The chief temptations to forget the duties just enforced will meet Israel when they enter upon the enjoyment of the civilisation of the land they are about to reach: a civilisation to which they have...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _in the midst of thee_ So Deuteronomy 7:21; Deuteronomy 23:14 (contr. Deuteronomy 1:42). Hosea has the same thought, Hosea 11:9, and

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    4. GOD NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN (Deuteronomy 6:10-15) 10 And it shall be, when Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give th...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS To the repetition of the Decalogue Moses adds in the following Chapter s a practical exhortation to obedience founded on the special relation of Jehovah to Israel as their Rede...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 6 V1 ‘These are all the *commandments, rules and laws that the *LORD your God ordered me to tea...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FROM OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH. — Literally, _of the ground._ Absolute extermination is threatened by the fire of His jealousy....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֣י אֵ֥ל קַנָּ֛א יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ בְּ קִר

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    EDUCATION-MOSAIC VIEW Deuteronomy 6:6 THOSE great verses, Deuteronomy 6:4, form the central truth of the book. Everything else in it proceeds from and is informed by them, and they are dwelt upon and...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    HOW TO TREAT GOD'S WORDS Deuteronomy 6:1 Obedience is still the one condition of true prosperity and success. Lands still flow with milk and honey; and they live long who live well. Lives are measur...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The appeal of Moses was now elaborated in a great statement on the deepest value of the commandment and the corresponding responsibilities of the people Observe the peculiar form of the opening statem...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    These are so many, beautiful repetitions of the same important precepts; and all leading to the same point, to intimate the jealousy of the LORD over his people. Reader! only pause and consider what e...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be called an abstract typical system. That is, we see in them a number of institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which wa...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5, 6, AND 7. In chapter 5 Moses reminds them of the ten commandments given in Horeb; and it is to be remarked, that the deliverance out of Egypt (not the rest...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR THE LORD THY GOD IS A JEALOUS GOD AMONG YOU,.... He was near to them, in the midst of them, his tabernacle being placed between their camps; and was a God jealous of his honour and glory in matter...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Deuteronomy 6:15 (For the LORD thy God [is] a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth. Ver. 15. _A jealous G...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Is a jealous God among you_ Hebrew, _In the midst of you;_ to see and observe all your ways, and your turnings aside to other gods. _Ye shall not tempt_ Not provoke him, as the following instance exp...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The end of the Law is obedience. 3 An exhortation thereto. 1 NOW these are the Commaundements, the Statutes, & the Iudgements, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might doe the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ( FOR THE LORD, THY GOD, IS A JEALOUS GOD AMONG YOU, Exodus 20:5) LEST THE ANGER OF THE LORD, THY GOD, BE KINDLED AGAINST THEE, like a fire that grows beyond control, AND DESTROY THEE FROM OFF THE FAC...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE EMPHATIC ADMONITION...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT (vs.1-9) The ten commandments have been reaffirmed in chapter 5; now Moses emphasizes and enlarges upon the significance of the four commandments, which we have seen deal wit...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-16 Here are means for maintaining and keeping up religion in our hearts and houses. 1. Meditation. God's words must be laid up in our hearts, that our thoughts may be daily employed about them. 2....

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    AMONG YOU, Heb. _in the midst of you_, to see and observe all your ways and your turnings aside to other gods....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgements, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: that thou mightest fea...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 6:15 LORD H3068 God H430 jealous H7067 God H410 among H7130 you) anger H639 LORD H3068 God H430 arous

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE ESSENCE OF THE COVENANT IS LOVE FOR YAHWEH AND THEY MUST LOOK TO NO ONE ELSE (DEUTERONOMY 6:4). For in this is the essence of the covenant, that they might recognise Yahweh as their one God and t...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Deuteronomy 6:1. _Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:_ God'...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Deuteronomy 6:1. Now these are the commandments, the statues, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: That tho...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Israel exhorted to observe all God's commandments. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Pharoah. CONCLUSION: The fear of God in the heart is the most powerful principle of obedie...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Deuteronomy 6:4. יהוה אלהינו יהוה אחד, _Jehovah our Elohim is one Jehovah._ There is uniformly an elision of the letter ם _mem,_ when the plural is associated with the noun; and the י _yod_ is not use...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Thou shalt not go after other gods._ THE FORBIDDEN PATH In all our hearts there is a tendency to depart from God, to forget what He commands, “to go after what He forbids. This forbidden path is de...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 6:14 OTHER GODS. As seen elsewhere in Deuteronomy 1:1, the greatest tragedy for Israel would be unfaithfulness to God (com

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.—Moses had rehearsed the law, reminded the people of the circumstances in which it was given, and now he sets forth its essential and fundamental doctrines, the nature and attributes of...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So in chapter six: NOW these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land whither you go to possess it: Tha...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 10:22; 1 Kings 13:34; 2 Chronicles 36:16; Amos 3:2;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Among you — Heb. In the midst of you, to see and observe all your ways and your turnings aside to other Gods....

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