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Deuteronomy 12:28

in Deuteronomy 12

Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the eyes of Jehovah thy God.

KJV

Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God.

This verse in Deuteronomy 12

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them, &c.--Game when procured in the wilderness had not been required to be brought to the door of the tabernacle.

This site's exposition

But you are to take your holy things and your vow offerings

on Deuteronomy 12:26-28

Holy things and vows go up to the chosen place, where verse 27 puts the blood on the altar or beside it. Within ten verses the same blood is poured on the ground or at the altar, and the altar is the whole difference. Verse 28 closes the section with the book's recurring promise “so that it may always go well with you”.

This site's exposition

what is good and right

Verse 28 adds good to the right of verse 25, and 6:18 joins the two words in the same way. The LORD's eyes judge the act, and the welfare of the children follows it. The pair closes the law of the one place.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Clement of Rome

LETTER TO THE CORINTHIANS 61.2 · Written before 99.

proposed

For it is you, Master, the heavenly "King of eternity," who gives the sons of men glory and honor and authority over the earth's people. Direct their plans, O Lord, in accord with "what is good and pleasing to you" so that they may administer the authority you have given them with peace, consideration and reverence, and so win your mercy.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

As I have commanded - In such a manner as the blood may be poured forth. As the roe-buck - As common or unhallowed food, tho' they be of the same kind with the sacrifices which are offered to God. The unclean - Because there was, no holiness in such meat for which the unclean might be excluded from it.
Observe and hear all these words which I command thee,....

The words behind it

23 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • שְׁמֹ֣רtake care

    shemorH8104 →468 times

  • וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֗and you will hear

    veshama'taH8085 →1159 times

  • אֵ֚ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַדְּבָרִ֣יםthe words

    hadevarimH1697 →1440 times

  • הָאֵ֔לֶּה<the> these

    haelehH428 →746 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • אָנֹכִ֖יI

    ʾanokhiH595 →359 times

  • מְצַוֶּ֑ךָּ[am] commanding you

    metzavekaH6680 →494 times

  • לְמַעַן֩so that

    lemaanH4616 →272 times

  • יִיטַ֨בit may go well

    yitavH3190 →117 times

  • לְךָ֜for you

    lekha

  • וּלְבָנֶ֤יךָand for children your

    ulevaneikhaH1121 →4930 times

  • אַחֲרֶ֙יךָ֙after you

    ʾachareikhaH310 →715 times

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • עוֹלָ֔םperpetuity

    olamH5769 →438 times

  • כִּ֤יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • תַעֲשֶׂה֙you will do

    taasehH6213 →2628 times

  • הַטּ֣וֹבthe good [thing]

    hatovH2896 →538 times

  • וְהַיָּשָׁ֔רand the right

    vehaiyasharH3477 →119 times

  • בְּעֵינֵ֖יin [the] eyes of

    beeineiH5869 →887 times

  • יְהוָ֥הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃ סGod your

    ʾeloheikhaH430 →2601 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    John 15:10

    If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.

    it leads to

    • John 14:15

      If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 John 5:3

      For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 John 3:21–24

      Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God,

    • 1 John 2:5

      But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:

    • 2 Peter 2:21

      It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.

  • Through

    John 15:14

    You are My friends if you do what I command you.

    it leads to

    • Matthew 12:50

      For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”

    • James 2:23

      And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God.

    • John 14:21

      Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”

Where this verse is studied

On this page

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About Deuteronomy

Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Clement of Rome, LETTER TO THE CORINTHIANS 61.2; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.