Deuteronomy 6

Deuteronomy 6:3

Save Caleb - Under whom Joshua is comprehended, though not here expressed, because he was not now to be one of the people, but to be set over them as a chief governor.

Deuteronomy 6:4

For your sakes - Upon occasion of your wickedness and perverseness, by which you provoked me to speak unadvisedly.

Deuteronomy 6:5

Who standeth - Who is now thy servant.

Deuteronomy 6:11

As bees - As bees which being provoked come out of their hives in great numbers, and with great fury pursue their adversary and disturber.

Deuteronomy 6:15

Mount Seir - The mountainous country of Seir or Edom. Many days - Even for thirty eight years.

Deuteronomy 6:17

Northward - Towards the land of the Amorites and Canaanites.

Deuteronomy 6:20

Buy meat - For thongh the manna did yet rain upon them, they were not forbidden to buy other meats when they had opportunity, but only were forbidden greedily to hunger after them when they could not obtain them. Buy water - For water in those parts was scarce, and therefore private persons did severally dig pits for their particular use.

Deuteronomy 6:21

The Lord hath blessed thee - By God’s blessing thou art able to buy thy conveniences, and therefore thy theft and rapine will be inexcusable, because without any pretence of necessity. He knoweth - Heb. He hath known, that is, observed, or regarded with care and kindness, which that word often notes. Which experience of God’s singular goodness to thee, should make thee rely on him still, and not use any unjust practice to procure what thou wantest or desirest.

Deuteronomy 6:22

We turned - From our direct road which lay through Edom.

Deuteronomy 6:24

The Emims - Men terrible for stature and strength, as their very name imparts, whose expulsion by the Moabites is here noted as a great encouragement to the Israelites, for whose sake he would much more drive out the wicked and accursed Canaanites.