Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 8:6
Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
6. This v. has been marked by Steuernagel as a later addition on the ground that it gives a strange turn to the main thought of the context. But the enforcement of the keeping of the commandments is the chief purpose of the whole discourse; and is more particularly relevant here in view of the temptations to forget them, which are described in the next verses. Besides the for of Deu 8:7 follows more naturally on Deu 8:6 than on Deu 8:5.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God,…. Not only because they are the commands of God, and of a covenant God and Father, which are reasons sufficient for the observance of them; but because the Lord had dealt so bountifully with them, in providing food and raiment for them in the wilderness, which always continued with them; and because, when he afflicted them, it was a fatherly chastisement, with great tenderness and compassion, and for their good; all which laid them under obligations to keep the commands of God, whatsoever he had enjoined them, whether of the moral, ceremonial, or judicial kind:
to walk in his ways, and to fear him; to walk in the ways he directed, to be under an awe of his majesty, a fear of offending him, and a reverential affection for him, such as children have to a father.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
‘ And you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.’
So with this in mind they must truly continue to keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, to walk constantly in His ways, and to fear Him. As a son listens to his father, so must they listen to Him.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Deu 8:6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
Ver. 6. Therefore thou shalt keep. ] As good children are the better for beating, and do gather under the wing of a frowning father.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
as = according as.
a man. Hebrew ‘ish. App-14.
chasteneth = correcteth, applicable to instruction as well as chastisement. 2Sa 7:14. Psa 89:32. Pro 3:12.
his son. Compare Pro 3:12 and Heb 12:5, Heb 12:6.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
fear
(See Scofield “Psa 19:9”).
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
walk: Deu 5:33, Exo 18:20, 1Sa 12:24, 2Ch 6:31, Psa 128:1, Luk 1:6
Reciprocal: Jer 11:7 – in the