15Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: …
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. …
If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-22)Here is a most pathetic exhortation to obedience, inferred from the premises, and urged with very powerful arguments and a great deal of persuasive rhetoric. Moses brings it in like an orator, with an appeal to his auditors And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee ? Deut. 10:12. Ask what he requires; as David (Ps. 116:12), What shall I render ? When we have received mercy from G…
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