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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:1 - 8:1
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Deu 8:1-20. An exhortation to obedience.
All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live - In all the wise arrangements of our Creator duty has been made inseparably connected with happiness; and the earnest enforcement of the divine law which Moses was making to the Israelites was in order to secure their being a happy (because a moral and religious) people: a course of prosperity is often called “life” (Gen 17:18; Pro 3:2).
live, and multiply - This reference to the future increase of their population proves that they were too few to occupy the land fully at first.