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Deuteronomy 26:16

in Deuteronomy 26

The LORD your God commands you this day to follow these statutes and ordinances. You must be careful to follow them with all your heart and with all your soul.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

This day Jehovah thy God commandeth thee to do these statutes and ordinances: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.

KJV

This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

This verse in Deuteronomy 26

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
A brief and earnest exhortation by way of conclusion to the second and longest discourse of the book. Deu 26:17 Thou hast avouched - literally, “made to say:” so also in the next verse. The sense is: “Thou hast given occasion to the Lord to say that He is thy God,” i. e. by promising that He shall be so. Compare Exo 24:7; Jos 24:14-25,

This site's exposition

The LORD your God commands you this day

on Deuteronomy 26:16-17

Barnes marks verse 16 as the close of the second and longest discourse. The laws end where they began, on “this day”.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

That their covenant with God obliged them to keep these commands. He insists not only upon God's sovereignty over them, but his propriety in them, and the relation wherein they stood to him. The covenant is mutual, and it binds to obedience both ways.

The words behind it

18 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.

  • הַיּ֣וֹםthe day

    haiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַזֶּ֗ה<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • יְהוָ֨הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָGod your

    ʾeloheikhaH430 →2601 times

  • מְצַוְּךָ֧[is] commanding you

    metzavekhaH6680 →494 times

  • לַעֲשׂ֛וֹתto observe

    laasotH6213 →2628 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַחֻקִּ֥יםthe statutes

    hachukimH2706 →127 times

  • הָאֵ֖לֶּה<the> these

    haelehH428 →746 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֑יםthe judgments

    hamishpatimH4941 →422 times

  • וְשָׁמַרְתָּ֤and you will take care

    veshamartaH8104 →468 times

  • וְעָשִׂ֙יתָ֙and you will observe

    veasitaH6213 →2628 times

  • אוֹתָ֔ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • בְּכָל־with all

    bekholH3605 →5413 times

  • לְבָבְךָ֖heart your

    levavekhaH3824 →252 times

  • וּבְכָל־and with all

    uvekhol-H3605 →5413 times

  • נַפְשֶֽׁךָ׃being your

    nafshekhaH5315 →754 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 14:15

    If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

    it leads to

    • 1 John 2:3–5

      By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.

    • 1 John 5:2–3

      By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.

    • John 14:21–24

      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.”

    • 2 John 1:6

      And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.

    • John 15:10–14

      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.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 6:17

    You are to diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes He has given you.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 11:22

      For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—

    • Psalms 119:4

      You have ordained Your precepts, that we should keep them diligently.

    • 2 Peter 1:5–10

      For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;

Where this verse is studied

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); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.