Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 11:21
That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
The sense is: Keep the covenant faithfully, and so shall your own and your childrens days be multiplied as long as the heaven covers the earth. The promise of Canaan to Israel was thus a perpetual promise, but also a conditional one.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
i.e. As long as this visible world lasts, whilst the heaven keeps its place and continues its influences upon earth, until all these things be dissolved. Compare Psa 72:5; 81:15; 89:29; Jer 33:25.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
That your days may be multiplied,…. Long life being a very desirable blessing, and which is promised to those that obey and keep the law; see De 30:19
and the days of your children; which are dear to parents, and the continuance of whose lives, next to their own, is most desirable, yea, as desirable as their own; and especially it is desirable that they might have a posterity descending from them, to enjoy for ever their estates and possessions; as it was to the people of Israel, that they might have a seed always to dwell
in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them; the land of Canaan, so often spoken of as the promise, oath, and gift of God:
as the days of heaven upon the earth; that is, as long as the heavens and the earth shall be, and the one shall be over the other, as they will be to the end of time.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(21) In the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them.It is not written here to give you, but to give them. Hence we find the resurrection of the dead taught in the Law. If this were the remark of a Christian commentator, it would be thought fanciful; but it is only the comment of a Jew. And the Jewish belief in the literal fulfilment of these promises to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, simply on the ground of Gods word, is an unquestionable fact, whatever may be thought of it. Comp. Act. 7:5, which is singularly pointed. God gave him (Abraham) none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on; yet He promised that He would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, besides.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
21. As the days of heaven upon the earth If obedient to these precepts, faithful to Jehovah your God, the goodly land will be yours and your children’s as long as heaven is above the earth. Deu 11:18-21 is, in part, a repetition of Deu 6:6-9.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Ver. 21. As the days of heaven upon the earth This phrase signifies a long time, indefinitely. So it is said of David in the Psalms, His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. Psa 89:29. Baruch says, that the Jews in Babylon were commanded to pray for Nebuchadnezzar and his son, that their days might be upon earth as the days of heaven. Such hyperbolical expressions are usual in all languages, and found in the best writers of antiquity. See, for example, Virgil AEn. 1: ver. 612.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Deu 11:21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
Ver. 21. As the days of heaven, ] i.e., As long as the world standeth. Hence haply we may conceive hope of the repentance of the Jews, and their re-establishment in this Promised Land.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
your days: Deu 4:40, Deu 5:16, Deu 6:2, Pro 3:2, Pro 3:16, Pro 4:10, Pro 9:11
as the days: Psa 72:5, Psa 89:28, Psa 89:29, Isa 65:20, Rev 20:6
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Deu 11:21. As the days of heaven As long as the heaven keeps its place, and continues its influences upon the earth. Thus the psalmist says of the son of David, the Messiah, His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
11:21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as {g} the days of heaven upon the earth.
(g) As long as the heavens and earth endure, 2Pe 3:10; 2Pe 3:12.