And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
God's command is to keep His words and commandments constantly and visibly present in daily home and community life by writing them on the doorposts of the house and on the gates. This writing is not mere outward display, but treasuring His truth in heart and soul and mind and letting it govern daily conduct. It belongs with laying up His words in the heart, binding them on the hand and between the eyes, and teaching them diligently to children in the house and by the way and night and morning, with parents continually educating, praying, singing the truth, and setting an example of consecrated service. Diligent love and obedience with all the heart and soul brings blessing, life, and prosperity, with rain, harvests, and possession of the promised land, and multiplies the days of parents and children as the days of heaven upon the earth. Turning aside to other gods brings the curse of shut heaven, unfruitful land, and perishing from the land, a lesson verified in Israel's wilderness death and captivity and still binding today, for God will vindicate His word and His faithful people will keep His law until they enter His kingdom.
Meaning and Context
God's words and commandments were to be written upon the doorposts of the house and upon the gates, so that they would be kept constantly and visibly present in daily home and community life. The writing was to make His commands a constant presence helping to keep them in mind while teaching and obeying them, and to keep them continually before households as part of laying them up in heart and soul. Diligent obedience in loving and serving God with all the heart and soul would bring blessing with rain in due season and corn and wine and oil and grass for cattle, and the days of parents and children would be multiplied in the land promised to the fathers as the days of heaven upon the earth.
The writing was not mere literal display, but meant treasuring God's truth in heart and soul and mind, living by it, doing what is right and good in His sight, and letting it govern daily conduct and occupy the mind. It expressed the wider duty to make God's truth part of family life and to teach it continually, with obedience bringing blessing.
The command belongs together with laying up God's words in heart and soul, binding them as a sign upon the hand and as frontlets between the eyes, and teaching them diligently to children when sitting in the house and walking by the way and lying down and rising up, and speaking of them throughout the day. Keeping His statutes constantly before the household by placing His words on homes and gates was part of keeping them continually present in family and community life, with the surrounding commands calling for love and obedience to God.
In the household this means parents continually educating the children God has given them at home and abroad, instructing the family, praying for the home, purifying the soul from all commonness, and sanctifying the Lord God of Israel in heart and life. What is taught is to be set to song so it will not be forgotten, and parents are to set before children and households an example in word and deportment that will lead them to desire above all things to render to God consecrated loving service and to bring them forth to serve and glorify God. Not men alone but all the women and the little ones must know and do their duty, with faithful teaching bringing blessing on fields and flocks and supporting a righteous, truthful, pure, happy, and healthy people through God's favor.
The verse belongs to Moses' rehearsal of God's instructions to Israel before they entered Canaan, among the important words the people were to keep in mind and obey. It was given through Moses by Christ as Israel's leader through the wilderness, commanding parents to teach God's commandments continually when sitting down and when rising up and walking. It stands within all the directions in Deuteronomy 4-11 and the lessons of Deuteronomy 8 and 11 and the setting of Deuteronomy 11:13-22, which are of the greatest importance and are to be read prayerfully to understand God's dealings with His people and to be carefully observed from the greatest matter to that which may seem the least.
Blessing Curse and Application
The call surrounding the writing on doorposts and gates is to love the Lord and serve Him with all the heart and soul, and to keep always His charge and His statutes and judgments and commandments. Diligent obedience brings blessing and life and prosperity and possession of the promised land, with God's favor shown in rain in due season and harvest of corn and wine and oil and grass for cattle and blessing on fields and flocks. Remembrance and obedience carry the promise that the days of the people and of their children shall be multiplied and continued in the land promised to the fathers, as the days of heaven upon the earth. This multiplying of days belongs to parents and children together, for not men alone but women and little ones are to know and do their duty.
Turning aside with a deceived heart to serve other gods brings the curse of kindled wrath, shut heaven with no rain, unfruitful land, quick perishing from the good land, and destruction. Among a disobedient people come lawlessness and discord and hatred and strife and violence, while obedience supports a righteous and truthful and pure and happy and healthy people favored by God. In its setting in Deuteronomy 11:13-22 the passage reveals the Lord as longsuffering and full of compassion and love, yet when continued rebellion and obstinacy passes the boundary line, punishment will follow the transgressor.
God's word was verified in Israel's history when disobedience led to ruin. Only two of the adults who left Egypt entered Canaan while the rest died in the wilderness, and the Jewish nation went into captivity and was scattered for not honoring and glorifying God. The lessons of the chapter are of the greatest importance and are given to people today and through each successive age as truly as to Israel. The sacredness of God's law still stands, and God will vindicate His word if His people depart from His commandments, while His faithful people will keep them until the Lord comes and they enter His kingdom. The words come from One with whom is no variableness nor shadow of turning, so all who know the truth bear grave responsibility not to treat them lightly, and they mean much to every soul carrying responsibilities in sanitarium work.
God's command is to keep His words and commandments constantly and visibly present in daily home and community life by writing them on the doorposts of the house and on the gates. This writing is not mere outward display, but treasuring His truth in heart and soul and mind and letting it govern daily conduct. It belongs with laying up His words in the heart, binding them on the hand and between the eyes, and teaching them diligently to children in the house and by the way and night and morning, with parents continually educating, praying, singing the truth, and setting an example of consecrated service. Diligent love and obedience with all the heart and soul brings blessing, life, and prosperity, with rain, harvests, and possession of the promised land, and multiplies the days of parents and children as the days of heaven upon the earth. Turning aside to other gods brings the curse of shut heaven, unfruitful land, and perishing from the land, a lesson verified in Israel's wilderness death and captivity and still binding today, for God will vindicate His word and His faithful people will keep His law until they enter His kingdom.
Meaning and Context
God's words and commandments were to be written upon the doorposts of the house and upon the gates, so that they would be kept constantly and visibly present in daily home and community life. The writing was to make His commands a constant presence helping to keep them in mind while teaching and obeying them, and to keep them continually before households as part of laying them up in heart and soul. Diligent obedience in loving and serving God with all the heart and soul would bring blessing with rain in due season and corn and wine and oil and grass for cattle, and the days of parents and children would be multiplied in the land promised to the fathers as the days of heaven upon the earth.
The writing was not mere literal display, but meant treasuring God's truth in heart and soul and mind, living by it, doing what is right and good in His sight, and letting it govern daily conduct and occupy the mind. It expressed the wider duty to make God's truth part of family life and to teach it continually, with obedience bringing blessing.
The command belongs together with laying up God's words in heart and soul, binding them as a sign upon the hand and as frontlets between the eyes, and teaching them diligently to children when sitting in the house and walking by the way and lying down and rising up, and speaking of them throughout the day. Keeping His statutes constantly before the household by placing His words on homes and gates was part of keeping them continually present in family and community life, with the surrounding commands calling for love and obedience to God.
In the household this means parents continually educating the children God has given them at home and abroad, instructing the family, praying for the home, purifying the soul from all commonness, and sanctifying the Lord God of Israel in heart and life. What is taught is to be set to song so it will not be forgotten, and parents are to set before children and households an example in word and deportment that will lead them to desire above all things to render to God consecrated loving service and to bring them forth to serve and glorify God. Not men alone but all the women and the little ones must know and do their duty, with faithful teaching bringing blessing on fields and flocks and supporting a righteous, truthful, pure, happy, and healthy people through God's favor.
The verse belongs to Moses' rehearsal of God's instructions to Israel before they entered Canaan, among the important words the people were to keep in mind and obey. It was given through Moses by Christ as Israel's leader through the wilderness, commanding parents to teach God's commandments continually when sitting down and when rising up and walking. It stands within all the directions in Deuteronomy 4-11 and the lessons of Deuteronomy 8 and 11 and the setting of Deuteronomy 11:13-22, which are of the greatest importance and are to be read prayerfully to understand God's dealings with His people and to be carefully observed from the greatest matter to that which may seem the least.
Blessing Curse and Application
The call surrounding the writing on doorposts and gates is to love the Lord and serve Him with all the heart and soul, and to keep always His charge and His statutes and judgments and commandments. Diligent obedience brings blessing and life and prosperity and possession of the promised land, with God's favor shown in rain in due season and harvest of corn and wine and oil and grass for cattle and blessing on fields and flocks. Remembrance and obedience carry the promise that the days of the people and of their children shall be multiplied and continued in the land promised to the fathers, as the days of heaven upon the earth. This multiplying of days belongs to parents and children together, for not men alone but women and little ones are to know and do their duty.
Turning aside with a deceived heart to serve other gods brings the curse of kindled wrath, shut heaven with no rain, unfruitful land, quick perishing from the good land, and destruction. Among a disobedient people come lawlessness and discord and hatred and strife and violence, while obedience supports a righteous and truthful and pure and happy and healthy people favored by God. In its setting in Deuteronomy 11:13-22 the passage reveals the Lord as longsuffering and full of compassion and love, yet when continued rebellion and obstinacy passes the boundary line, punishment will follow the transgressor.
God's word was verified in Israel's history when disobedience led to ruin. Only two of the adults who left Egypt entered Canaan while the rest died in the wilderness, and the Jewish nation went into captivity and was scattered for not honoring and glorifying God. The lessons of the chapter are of the greatest importance and are given to people today and through each successive age as truly as to Israel. The sacredness of God's law still stands, and God will vindicate His word if His people depart from His commandments, while His faithful people will keep them until the Lord comes and they enter His kingdom. The words come from One with whom is no variableness nor shadow of turning, so all who know the truth bear grave responsibility not to treat them lightly, and they mean much to every soul carrying responsibilities in sanitarium work.