4 Hear now, O Israel, the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
Deu 4:1
The decrees—The laws which concern the worship and service of God.
That you may live and . . . go in and take possession . . . the land—The enjoyment of the temporal blessings which God had promised to Israel were not to be forfeited by any transgression, except national apostasy, sinning presumptuously, and such like breaches of the fundamental articles of the covenant. The sacred history often represents these as the causes of the divine vengeance against them, as in this context.
And . . . go in and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you—The land of Canaan, which the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, had promised to give to their posterity, and which they were to hold by their obedience to his laws.
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Commentary
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible. Used by permission www.onlinebible.us
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Scripture taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of International Bible Society.
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