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Obedience Enjoined
v. 18. Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, stamp them indelibly on both reason and will, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes,
v. 19. and ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down and when thou risest up.
v. 20. And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thine house and upon thy gates. Cf Deu_6:6-9. This passage is an excellent summary of hints for the bringing up of children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, namely, through the constant use and application of the Word of God,
v. 21. That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, this blessing being again made prominent, in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth, that is, as long as the heaven, with its rich blessings, stands over the earth, so long shall Israel, if faithful to the Lord and His covenant, enjoy the riches of Canaan.
v. 22. For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the Lord, your God, to walk in all His ways, and to cleave unto Him, Deu_10:20;
v. 23. then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, Deu_4:38, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves, that is, enter into their possessions, inherit their land.
v. 24. Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours; from the wilderness, namely, that of Arabia in the south and southeast, and Lebanon, in the north, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be, extending to the Mediterranean Sea on the west.
v. 25. There shall no man be able to stand before you; for the Lord, your God, shall lay the fear of you, Deu_2:25, and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, into the hearts of all the inhabitants of these countries, as He hath said unto you, Deu_7:24; Exo_23:27. All these promises were intended for the purpose of filling the Israelites with good cheer and courage, of strengthening their trust in the Lord.