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Deuteronomy Chapter Five                            

 

Deuteronomy 5 Outlines

The Ten Commandments Reviewed (v.1~22)

The People Afraid of God’s Presence (v.23~33)

New King James Version (NKJV)

 

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 5

In this chapter Moses after a short preface Deuteronomy 5:1 repeats the law of the decalogue or ten commands with some little variation Deuteronomy 5:6 and then reminds the Israelites of the terrible manner in which it was delivered to them Deuteronomy 5:22 which put them upon making a request that Moses might be a mediator between God and them and hear what the Lord had to say and report it to them; to which they promised obedience Deuteronomy 5:24 and which being agreeable to the Lord was granted Deuteronomy 5:28 and this laid them under a greater obligation to observe the commands of God and keep them Deuteronomy 5:32.

 

Deuteronomy 5:1   And Moses called all Israel and said to them: “Hear O Israel the statutes and judgments which I speak in your hearing today that you may learn them and be careful to observe them.

   YLT  1And Moses calleth unto all Israel and saith unto them `Hear Israel the statutes and the judgments which I am speaking in your ears to-day and ye have learned them and have observed to do them.

And Moses called all Israel .... The heads of the various tribes and elders of the people as he had on occasion been used to do; unless it can be thought that at different times he repeated the following laws to separate parties and bodies of them until they had all heard them:

and said unto them hear O Israel the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day; the laws moral ceremonial and judicial which he was about to repeat and afresh declare unto them being what they had all a concern in and under obligation to regard.

 

Deuteronomy 5:2   2 The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

   YLT  2Jehovah our God made with us a covenant in Horeb;

The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. Which is Sinai as Aben Ezra observes; it being the same mountain only it had two tops which bore these different names; for certain it is that the decalogue after repeated was given at Sinai and had the nature and form of a covenant; see Exodus 24:7.

 

Deuteronomy 5:3   3 The Lord did not make this covenant with our fathers but with us those who are here today all of us who are alive.

   YLT  3not with our fathers hath Jehovah made this covenant but with us; we -- these -- here to-day -- all of us alive.

The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers .... That is not with them only as Jarchi Aben Ezra and Abendana remark; for certain it is that this covenant was made or law was given to the immediate fathers of this present generation of Israelites whose carcasses had fallen in the wilderness; unless this is to be understood of their more remote ancestors Abraham Isaac and Jacob with whom the covenant of grace was made or afresh made manifest especially with the former; when the law the covenant here spoken of was not delivered until four hundred and thirty years after Galatians 3:16

but with us even us who are all of us here alive this day; many of them were then present at the giving of the law and though under twenty years of age could remember it and the circumstances of it; and besides they were the same people to whom it was given though not consisting wholly of the same individuals.

 

Deuteronomy 5:4   4 The Lord talked with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire.

   YLT  4Face to face hath Jehovah spoken with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire;

The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount .... Meaning not in that free friendly and familiar manner in which he sometimes talked with Moses of whom this phrase is used Exodus 33:11 but publicly audibly clearly and distinctly or without the interposition of another; he did not speak to them by Moses but to them themselves; he talked to them without a middle person between them as Aben Ezra expresses it: without making use of one to relate to them what he said; but he talked to them directly personally:

out of the midst of the fire; in which he descended and with which the mountain was burning all the time he was speaking; which made it very awful and terrible and pointed at the terrors of the legal dispensation.

 

Deuteronomy 5:5   5 I stood between the Lord and you at that time to declare to you the word of the Lord; for you were afraid because of the fire and you did not go up the mountain. He said:

   YLT  5I am standing between Jehovah and you at that time to declare to you the word of Jehovah for ye have been afraid from the presence of the fire and ye have not gone up into the mount; saying:

I stood between the Lord and you at that time .... Between the Word of the Lord and you as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan; that is about that time not at the exact precise time the ten commandments were delivered for these were spoken immediately to the people; but when the ceremonial law was given which was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator Galatians 3:19 and which was at the request of the people as follows terrified by the appearance of the fire out of which the moral law was delivered:

to show you the word of the Lord; not the decalogue that they heard with their own ears but the other laws which were afterwards given that were of the ceremonial and judicial kind:

for ye were afraid by reason of the fire and went not up into the mount; lest they should be consumed by it: and indeed bounds were set about the mount and they were charged not to break through:

saying; this word is in connection with the preceding verse the Lord's talking out of the midst of the fire when he said what follows.

 

Deuteronomy 5:6   6 ‘I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondage.

   YLT  6`I Jehovah [am] thy God who hath brought thee out from the land of Egypt from a house of servants.

Verses 6-11

I am the Lord thy God .... This is the preface to the ten commandments and is the same with that in Exodus 20:2; see Gill on Exodus 20:2 and those commands are here delivered in the same order and pretty near in the same words with a little variation and a few additions; which I shall only observe and refer to Exodus 20:1 for the sense of the various laws.

 

Deuteronomy 5:7   7 ‘You shall have no other gods before Me.

   YLT  7`Thou hast no other gods in My presence.

 

Deuteronomy 5:8   8 ‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth;

   YLT  8`Thou dost not make to thee a graven image any similitude which [is] in the heavens above and which [is] in the earth beneath and which [is] in the waters under the earth;

 

Deuteronomy 5:9   9 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I the Lord your God am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me

   YLT  9thou dost not bow thyself to them nor serve them for I Jehovah thy God [am] a zealous God charging iniquity of fathers on children and on a third [generation] and on a fourth to those hating Me;

 

Deuteronomy 5:10   10 but showing mercy to thousands to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

   YLT  10and doing kindness to thousands to those loving Me and to those keeping My commands.

 

Deuteronomy 5:11   11 ‘You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

   YLT  11`Thou dost not take up the Name of Jehovah thy God for a vain thing for Jehovah doth not acquit him who taketh up His Name for a vain thing.

 

Deuteronomy 5:12   12 ‘Observe the Sabbath day to keep it holy as the Lord your God commanded you.

   YLT  12`Observe the day of the sabbath -- to sanctify it as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee;

Verse 12-13

Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it .... Or observe it by setting it apart as a time of natural rest and for the performance of holy and religious exercises; see Exodus 20:8 where the phrase is a little varied "remember the sabbath day to keep it holy"; it having been instituted before:

as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; not at Sinai only for the same might then have been observed of all the rest of the commands but before the giving of the law at the first of the manna; see Exodus 16:23.

 

Deuteronomy 5:13   13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work

   YLT  13six days thou dost labour and hast done all thy work

 

Deuteronomy 5:14   14 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you nor your son nor your daughter nor your male servant nor your female servant nor your ox nor your donkey nor any of your cattle nor your stranger who is within your gates that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

   YLT  14and the seventh day [is] a sabbath to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not do any work thou and thy son and thy daughter and thy man-servant and thy handmaid and thine ox and thine ass and all thy cattle and thy sojourner who [is] within thy gates; so that thy man-servant and thy handmaid doth rest like thyself;

Nor thine ox nor thine ass .... In Exodus 20:10 it is only in general said:

nor thy cattle: here by way of illustration and explanation the ox and the ass are particularly mentioned; the one being used in ploughing ground and treading out the corn and the other in carrying burdens; and it is added:

nor any of thy cattle; as their camels or whatever else they were wont to use in any kind of service; they were none of them to do any kind of work on the sabbath day. The following clause also is not used before which expresses the end of this institution:

that thy manservant and thy maidservant may have rest as well as thee; which if the cattle had not rest they could not have being obliged to attend them at the plough or elsewhere; and this respects not only hired but bond servants and maidens.

 

Deuteronomy 5:15   15 And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the Lord your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

   YLT  15and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt and Jehovah thy God is bringing thee out thence by a strong hand and by a stretched-out arm; therefore hath Jehovah thy God commanded thee to keep the day of the sabbath.

And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt .... Even a bondservant; for Egypt was an house of bondage and there the Israelites were made to serve in hard bondage; of which they are reminded that their hearts might be touched with it and inclined to show pity to persons in somewhat similar circumstances; calling to mind how sweet a little rest would have been unto them when in Egypt:

and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm; signifying that their deliverance from their state of bondage was not owing to themselves nor to any creature but to the mercy and kindness of God and to his almighty power; and therefore they were under the greatest obligations to observe any command and institution of his he should think fit to make; and particularly this of the sabbath which was made on that account as follows:

wherefore the Lord thy God commandeth thee to keep the sabbath day; in commemoration of their rest from Egyptian bondage.

 

Deuteronomy 5:16   16 ‘Honor your father and your mother as the Lord your God has commanded you that your days may be long and that it may be well with you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

   YLT  16`Honour thy father and thy mother as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee so that thy days are prolonged and so that it is well with thee on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

Honour thy father and thy mother as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee .... And is the first commandment with promise as the apostle observes Ephesians 6:2 with a promise of long life and happiness in the land of Canaan as follows:

that thy days may be prolonged; see Exodus 20:12 here it is added:

and that it may go well with thee; and which the apostle also has in the place referred to:

in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee; the land of Canaan; which the same apostle explains to a greater latitude:

that thou mayest live long on the earth; applying it to Christians under the Gospel dispensation whether Jews or Gentiles.

 

Deuteronomy 5:17   17 ‘You shall not murder.

   YLT  17`Thou dost not murder.

Verses 17-20

Thou shalt not kill .... The following commands begin with the copulative "and" different from the manner in which they are expressed Exodus 20:17 which joins these together and them with the preceding ones; hence the law is by some said to be one copulative and may serve to illustrate a passage in James 2:10.

 

Deuteronomy 5:18   18 ‘You shall not commit adultery.

   YLT  18`Thou dost not commit adultery.

 

Deuteronomy 5:19   19 ‘You shall not steal.

   YLT  19`Thou dost not steal.

 

Deuteronomy 5:20   20 ‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

   YLT  20`Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour -- a false testimony.

 

Deuteronomy 5:21   21 ‘You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife; and you shall not desire your neighbor’s house his field his male servant his female servant his ox his donkey or anything that is your neighbor’s.’

   YLT  21`Thou dost not desire thy neighbour's wife; nor dost thou covet thy neighbour's house his field and his man-servant and his handmaid his ox and his ass and anything which [is] thy neighbour's.

Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife .... Here a neighbour's wife is put before his house different from Exodus 20:17 and "his field" is added which with what follows take in everything that is a man's property; and which is not to be desired or coveted in an unlawful manner by another and much less should any means be made use of to deprive him of it; but "lust" is the thing intended and prohibited be it after what it may which is another man's: see Matthew 5:28 of a man's field see Isaiah 5:8.

 

Deuteronomy 5:22   22 “These words the Lord spoke to all your assembly in the mountain from the midst of the fire the cloud and the thick darkness with a loud voice; and He added no more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

   YLT  22`These words hath Jehovah spoken unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire of the cloud and of the thick darkness -- a great voice; and He hath not added and He writeth them on two tables of stone and giveth them unto me.

These words the Lord spake unto all your assembly in the mount .... The above ten words or commands which were spoken so audibly and loudly by the Lord himself on Mount Sinai that the whole congregation of the people of Israel heard them:

out of the midst of the fire of the cloud and of the thick darkness; in which the Lord was; see Deuteronomy 4:11

with a great voice and he added no more; ceased speaking; after he had delivered the ten commands he said no more at that time. The Targum of Jonathan is "with a great voice which ceased not.'It ceased not until all were delivered and then it did; it was a continued voice yet clear and distinct:

and he wrote them iwo tables of stone; marble stone as the Targum of Jonathan; which is much more likely than what the paraphrase has on Deuteronomy 4:13 this is an emblem of the duration of the law:

and delivered them unto me; to Moses and by him to be delivered to the people who though they had heard them would be apt to forget them; and therefore they were written that they might read them and meditate on them and be careful to keep them.

 

Deuteronomy 5:23   23 “So it was when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness while the mountain was burning with fire that you came near to me all the heads of your tribes and your elders.

   YLT  23`And it cometh to pass as ye hear the voice out of the midst of the darkness and of the mountain burning with fire that ye come near unto me all the heads of your tribes and your elders

And it came to pass when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness .... The thick darkness where God was and with which the mountain was covered Exodus 20:21.

for the mountain did burn with fire; which is a reason both why the Lord spoke out of the midst of the fire the mountain on which he descended burning with it and also for his speaking out of the midst of darkness because not only a thick cloud covered the mountain but it was altogether on a smoke which ascended as the smoke of a furnace Exodus 19:16.

that ye come near unto me even all the heads of your tribes and your elders; or wise men as the Targum of Jonathan; by which it appears that not only the common people were frightened at what they heard and saw on Mount Sinai but those of the first rank and eminence among them who were the most famous for their authority and wisdom.

 

Deuteronomy 5:24   24 And you said: ‘Surely the Lord our God has shown us His glory and His greatness and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God speaks with man; yet he still lives.

   YLT  24and say Lo Jehovah our God hath shewed us His honour and His greatness; and His voice we have heard out of the midst of the fire; this day we have seen that God doth speak with man -- and he hath lived.

And ye said behold the Lord our God hath showed us his glory and his greatness .... In descending on Mount Sinai in the manner he did and giving the law from thence with such solemnity; for there was a glory in the ministration of it as the apostle argues 2 Corinthians 3:7 it being delivered with so much majesty and such a glorious apparatus attending it; see Deuteronomy 33:2. Aben Ezra interprets this of the appearance of fire in which the Lord was "and his greatness" of the thunders and lightnings and the voice of the trumpet:

and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire; the ten words as the same interpreter rightly notes which were vocally and audibly expressed out of the fire:

we have seen this day that God doth talk with man and he liveth; they had proof of it in themselves; God had been talking with them out of the fire and yet it did not reach and consume them but they were still alive.

 

Deuteronomy 5:25   25 Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the Lord our God anymore then we shall die.

   YLT  25`And now why do we die? for consume us doth this great fire -- if we add to hear the voice of Jehovah our God any more -- then we have died.

Now therefore why should we die?.... Since we are now alive and have so wonderfully escaped the danger we were exposed unto let us be careful that we are not liable to it again:

for this great fire will consume us: if it continues and we are exposed to it; perhaps some of them might remember the fire that burnt in the uttermost parts of the camp at Taberah and the destruction of Korah and the two hundred and fifty men with him by fire Numbers 11:1

if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more then we shall die; for it was such a voice of words they could not endure as to the matter of them and therefore entreated the word might not be spoken to them any more; it being the killing letter and the ministration of condemnation and death; and the manner in which it was delivered was so terrible that they concluded they could not live but must die if they heard it again; and imagined that if the fire continued the flames of it would spread and reach them and they would not be able to escape them.

 

Deuteronomy 5:26   26 For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire as we have and lived?

   YLT  26For who of all flesh [is] he who hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire like us -- and doth live?

For who is there of all flesh .... What man was there in any age that was ever heard of or can be named:

that hath heard the voice of the living God; who lives in and of himself and is the author and giver of life to all his creatures whereby he is distinguished from and is opposed unto the lifeless deities of the Gentiles; and which makes him and his voice heard the more awful and tremendous and especially as

speaking out of the midst of the fire: which was the present case:

as we have and lived? of this there never was the like instance; for though some had seen God and lived as Jacob did and therefore called the name of the place where he saw him Penuel Genesis 32:30 and Moses had heard the voice of the angel of the Lord out of a bush which seemed to be burning and was not consumed Exodus 3:2 yet none ever heard the voice of the Lord out of real fire and particularly expressing such words as he did but the Israelites. Zoroastres the founder of the Magi among the Persians and of their religion seems to have had respect to this and to have applied falsely this to himself which belonged to Moses and the people of Israel; for it is saidF11Hyde Hist. Relig. Vet. Pers. c. 8. p. 160. "one reason the Persians have fire in so much veneration is because they say that Zoroastres being caught up to heaven did not see God but heard him speaking with him out of the midst of fire.'

 

Deuteronomy 5:27   27 You go near and hear all that the Lord our God may say and tell us all that the Lord our God says to you and we will hear and do it.

   YLT  27Draw near thou and hear all that which Jehovah our God saith and thou thou dost speak unto us all that which Jehovah our God speaketh unto thee and we have hearkened and done it.

Go thou near .... To the mount and to God on it:

and hear all that the Lord our God shall say; for they supposed by the continuance of the Lord on the mount and the fire burning on it that he had more to say which they were not averse to hear; but desired it might be not immediately delivered to them but by the means of Moses; the sound of the words and the sight of the fire being so terrible to them:

and speak thou unto us all that the Lord our God shall speak unto thee: they did not doubt knowing the faithfulness of Moses his declaring all unto them that should be told him by the Lord; and they were desirous that he should they did not want to have anything withheld from them only they could not bear to see and hear things immediately from the Lord:

and we will hear it and do it; hearken to it and receive it as the word of God and not man and yield a ready and cheerful obedience even to everything that should be required; see Exodus 20:19.

 

Deuteronomy 5:28   28 “Then the Lord heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me and the Lord said to me: ‘I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They are right in all that they have spoken.

   YLT  28`And Jehovah heareth the voice of your words in your speaking unto me and Jehovah saith unto me I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken unto thee; they have done well [in] all that they have spoken.

And the Lord heard the voice of your word when ye spake unto me .... Not only in a general way as he hears and knows all that is spoken by men; for there is not a word on the tongue formed upon it and uttered by it but what is altogether known to him; but in a special and particular manner observed took notice of approved and was well pleased with what these people said:

and the Lord said unto me I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken unto thee; not only heard the sound of them but took notice of the sense and meaning of them and listened to them with pleasure and delight:

they have well said all that they have spoken; expressing such an awe and reverence of the divine Majesty desiring to have a mediator between God and them and purposing and promising to hearken to and obey whatsoever he should command by him.

 

Deuteronomy 5:29   29 Oh that they had such a heart in them that they would fear Me and always keep all My commandments that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

   YLT  29O that their heart had been thus to them to fear Me and to keep My commands all the days that it may be well with them and with their sons -- to the age!

O that there were such an heart in them .... Not that there is properly speaking such volitions and wishes in God; but as Aben Ezra observes the Scripture speaks after the language of the children of men; and may be considered as upbraiding them with want of such an heart and with weakness to do what they had promised; and at most as approving of those things they spoke of as grateful to him and profitable to them: the words may be rendered "who will giveF12מי יתן "quis det" V. L. Pagninus Montanus Vatablus Drusius; "quis dabit" Piscator. that they had such an heart"; not to me but to them as Aben Ezra notes; they cannot give it to themselves nor can any creature give it to them; none but God can and therefore they ought to have prayed to him to give them an heart to hearken and do; agreeably to which is the Arabic version "it is to be wished by them that such an heart would continue with them;'which they by their language signified was in them: that they would fear me; which is not naturally in the heart of man is a gift of God a part of the covenant of grace is implanted in regeneration and is no inconsiderable branch of it; it is opposed to pride and is consistent with faith and joy and is increased by views of the grace and goodness of God and is a distinguishing character of a good man:

and keep all my commandments always; not only one but all and not only at some certain times but continually; and which are to be kept in faith from a principle of love with a view to the glory of God and in the strength of Christ; and to this the fear of God is necessary for where there is no fear of God there is no regard to his commandments; but where there is a reverential fear of God there are faith hope love and every other grace; yea the Spirit the author of all who is in the saints to enable them to walk in the statutes of the Lord and to keep his judgments and do them; and such keep the commandments of God not from a slavish fear but from a sense of divine goodness:

that it might be well with them and with their children for ever; for the fear of God and the keeping of his commandments issue in the good of men in their own good their inward peace and spiritual welfare; in the good of others their neighbours servants and children by way of example and instruction; and even in the public peace and prosperity of a nation in which they dwell: not that these things are meritorious of eternal life but are what are approved of by the Lord and are grateful to him; which is the chief view in the expression of the text.

 

Deuteronomy 5:30   30 Go and say to them “Return to your tents.”

   YLT  30`Go say to them Turn back for yourselves to your tents;

Go say to them get you into your tents again. Which they had left being brought by Moses at the direction of God to the foot of Mount Sinai to receive the law from his mouth; this being done they are ordered to return to their tents again to their families wives and children.

 

Deuteronomy 5:31   31 But as for you stand here by Me and I will speak to you all the commandments the statutes and the judgments which you shall teach them that they may observe them in the land which I am giving them to possess.’

  YLT  31and thou here stand thou with Me and let Me speak unto thee all the command and the statutes and the judgments which thou dost teach them and they have done in the land which I am giving to them to possess it.

But as for thee stand thou here by me .... On the mount by him whither he was called up; Moses was not permitted to go to his tent when the children of Israel were but was ordered to wait upon the Lord to receive instructions from him which he was to communicate to the people being a kind of a mediator between God and them as they requested and which was granted them:

and I will speak unto thee all the commandments and the statutes and the judgments: all laws moral ceremonial and judicial which belong to them as men as in a church state and members of a body politic:

which thou shalt teach them that they may do them; for all doctrine is in order to practice without which all instructions and theoretical notions signify little: and these they were more especially to do and some of them peculiarly:

in the land which I give them to possess it: the land of Canaan and which laid on them no small obligation to do the commandments of God; since of his free favour and good will and as a pure gift of his he had bestowed upon them a land flowing with milk and honey into which he was just now about to bring them; as nothing can more strongly engage souls to a cheerful obedience to the service of God whether in private or in public than the consideration of the great and good things which God of his rich grace bestows upon them and has promised to them and prepared for them and will quickly put them into the possession of; and upon such an account Moses presses the observance of the commands of God in the following verses.

 

Deuteronomy 5:32   32 “Therefore you shall be careful to do as the Lord your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

   YLT  32`And ye have observed to do as Jehovah your God hath commanded you ye turn not aside -- right or left;

Ye shall observe to do therefore as the Lord your God doth command you .... Observe every precept as to matter and manner which the Lord has commanded and that under a sense of the great obligations laid on them by him in giving them freely so good a land to possess:

you shall not turn to the right hand or to the left; but walk in the way of the commandments of God and not depart from them at all but follow the Lord in his own ways fully. The phrase is expressive of a strict and close attention to the word of God without deviating from it in the least; for every sin which is a transgression of some command of God or another is a going out of the way that directs unto; see Isaiah 30:21.

 

Deuteronomy 5:33   33 You shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God has commanded you that you may live and that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.

   YLT  33in all the way which Jehovah your God hath commanded you ye walk so that ye live and [it is] well with you and ye have prolonged days in the land which ye possess.

Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you .... None are to be avoided or departed from on any consideration whatever; see Psalm 119:6 an instance of this we have in Zacharias and Elizabeth Luke 1:6 that ye may live; corporeally comfortably in all the outward enjoyments of life needful for them particularly in the possession of the land of Canaan and the benefits of it; for these promises of life upon obedience seem to reach no further unless as types and emblems of what is enjoyed through the obedience and righteousness of Christ as the following phrases show:

and that it may be well with you and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess; the land of Canaan; though the Jewish writersF13Moreh Nevochim par. 3. c. 27. p. 418. carry it further even to heaven and eternal happiness; and so may we in the sense before given.

 

──John Gill’s Exposition of the Bible