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Deuteronomy 6:4

Hear, O Israel: The Lord, our God, is one Lord, Jehovah the One. The Lord of Israel is the absolute God, and there is none other. With these words Moses opens the exposition and the inculcation of the Lord's precepts; for unless the worshiper gives his whole heart and mind to this God alone, he cannot perform His will.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 6:4. _HEAR, O ISRAEL_] שמע ישראל יהוה אלהינו יהוה אחד _shemA_ _Yisrael, Yehovah Eloheinu, Yehovah achaD_. These words may be variously rendered into English; but almost all possible...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    These words form the beginning of what is termed the “Shema” (“Hear”) in the Jewish Services, and belong to the daily morning and evening office. They may be called “the creed of the Jews.” This weigh...

  • 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

    DEUTERONOMY 6:4 TO DEUTERONOMY 11:32. General precepts resting upon the doctrine that Yahweh is the only true God. Deuteronomy 6:4. Called by Jews the _Shema_ from the first wordHear. The Shema, wi

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HEAR. In the Hebrew text this word (_sham'a)_ has the last letter majuscular (i.e. larger than the others) as also the last letter of the last word (_'echad_), to emphasize "the first and great comman...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Hear, O Israel_ So Deuteronomy 9:1; Deuteronomy 20:3, and similarly Deuteronomy 4:1; Deuteronomy 6:3; and nowhere else in the Hexate

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Essential Creed and Duty of Israel, with enforcement of them. Known from its initial word as The _Shĕma-_(_Hear_), this section (along with Deuteronomy 11:13-21 and Numbers 15:37-41) -has been for...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 4, 5. _THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD,_ &C.— As polytheism was the great error of the world, the Jewish religion and laws were calculated to strike at the root of that epidemical evil. Therefore,...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    LESSON SIX DEUTERONOMY 6:4-25 2. LOVE TO BE THE MOTIVE FOR OBSERVANCE THE SHEMA (Deuteronomy 6:4-9) 4 Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah: 5 and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all th...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _HEAR, O ISRAEL: THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD:_ HEAR, O ISRAEL: THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD - or, as the words may perhaps be better translated, 'Hear, O Israel: _ YAHWEH_ (H3068) is our God (_ 'ELOH...

  • 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

    HEAR, O ISRAEL... — These two verses are styled by our Lord “the first and great commandment” in the Law. The first words of the Talmud concern the hours when this form should be recited in daily morn...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שְׁמַ֖ע יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ יְהוָ֥ה ׀ אֶחָֽד׃...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    LOVE TO GOD THE LAW OF LIFE Deuteronomy 6:4 IN these verses we approach "the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments" which it was to be Moses' duty to communicate to the people, _ i.e._, the s...

  • 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

    What a blessed verse is this, which folds within its short, but mighty contents, the foundation of all our faith. Our GOD, though existing in a manner totally distinct from all his creatures in a thre...

  • 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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE CENTRAL TRUTH OF BIBLICAL RELIGION_ ‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And t...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    4._Hear, O Israel. _When Moses proclaims that God is One, the statement is not confined to His sole essence, which is incomprehensible, but must be also understood of His power and glory, which had be...

  • 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

    HEAR, O ISRAEL,.... These are the words of Moses, stirring up the people to an attention to what he was about to say of this great and momentous article, the unity of God, to prevent their going into...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD: Ver. 4. _The Lord our God is one Lord._] One in Three, and Three in One. Here are three words answering the three persons; and the middle word, Our God...

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

    _Hear, O Israel!_ The passage contained in this and the following verse, the Jews reckoned one of their choicest portions of Scripture. They wrote it on their phylacteries, (or slips of parchment boun...

  • 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...

  • 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

    4,5 Here is a brief summary of religion, containing the first principles of faith and obedience. Jehovah our God is the only living and true God; he only is God, and he is but One God. Let us not des...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    One in essence, and the only object of our worship....

  • 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 6:4 Hear H8085 (H8798) Israel H3478 LORD H3068 God H430 LORD H3068 one H259 the Lord -...

  • 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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Deuteronomy 6:4 _(with Matthew 28:19)_ Observe: I. That the Scriptural Trinity implies that God is One. So far from being against the cardinal truth of God's unity, it actually assumes it. The Trini...

  • 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

    _The Lord our God is one Lord._ OF THE UNITY OF GOD I. Why God is called the living God. 1. In opposition to, and to distinguish Him from, dead idols (Psalms 115:4; 1 Thessalonians 1:9). 2. Because...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them._ WARS OF THE ISRAELITES There is, perhaps, no point on which the weakness of human nature is more clearly shown than in the difficulty of treading the...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 6:4 HEAR, O ISRAEL. This verse is called the _Shema_, from the Hebrew word for “hear.” THE LORD our God, the L

  • 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 Chronicles 29:10; 1 Corinthians 8:4; 1 Kings 18:21; 1 Timothy 2:5;...

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