9And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.
And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-16)Here is, I. A brief summary of religion, containing the first principles of faith and obedience, Deut. 6:4 , 5 . These two verses the Jews reckon one of the choicest portions of scripture: they write it in their phylacteries, and think themselves not only obliged to say it at least twice every day, but very happy in being so obliged, having this saying among them, Blessed are we, who every morning…
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