Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 8:1

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1. 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" ( Genesis 17:18 ; Proverbs 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. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-2" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-deu-8-001

절 (explains)

bible-text/deu-8-1

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological