12Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. …
Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD. …
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: …
Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-13)The law was given by Moses; so it is said, John 1:17. He was not only entrusted to deliver it to that generation, but to transmit it to the generations to come; and here it appears that he was faithful to that trust. I. Moses wrote this law , Deut. 31:9. The learned bishop Patrick understands this of all the five books of Moses, which are often called the law ; he supposes that though Moses had wr…
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