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Time after Pentecost · Proper 17 · Year B

Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9

Keep the Commandments Diligently

August 29, 2027

Moses with the Ten Commandments, Rembrandt van Rijn
Moses with the Ten Commandments, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1659Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Rembrandt's Moses holds the tablets above his head, either to show them or to throw them down. The painting does not settle which, and the Hebrew is legible and correctly cut.Deuteronomy keeps returning to these words, to be kept and taught and bound on the hand, and this is the moment they arrive.Rembrandt van RijnRembrandt (1606-1669) painted scripture as if it had happened in a room he had been in, and returned to the same stories across forty years, changing his mind about them in public.Gemäldegalerie, BerlinBerlin's old-master gallery, with one of the great collections of European painting before 1800, rebuilt after the division and reunification of the city.Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
LSB Three-Year Lectionary
GospelMark 7:14-23Mk 7:14-23
EpistleEph. 6:10-20Eph 6:10-20
Old TestamentDeut. 4:1-2, 6-9Dt 4:1-2, 6-9
PsalterPs. 119:129-136Ps 119:129-136

Overview & Insights

"You must observe them diligently, for this will show your wisdom and discernment to the peoples." (Deuteronomy 4:6)

Moses urges Israel to obey the statutes and ordinances without adding or taking away, for keeping them is their wisdom before the nations, and to guard themselves so they do not forget what they have seen.

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Commentary

Working Preacher: Commentary on Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9Working Preacher: Commentary on Dt 4:1-2, 6-9 Working Preacher

Lutheran lectionary commentary on obedience and God's nearness.

Enduring Word: Deuteronomy 4Enduring Word: Dt 4 Enduring Word · David Guzik

David Guzik's verse-by-verse evangelical notes on the whole chapter.

Precept Austin: Deuteronomy 4 CommentaryPrecept Austin: Dt 4 Commentary Precept Austin

Detailed study page gathering many commentators on Deuteronomy 4.

BibleHub: Commentaries on Deuteronomy 4:1BibleHub: Commentaries on Dt 4:1 BibleHub

Parallel classic commentaries keyed to the call to obey the statutes.

StudyLight: Deuteronomy 4 CommentariesStudyLight: Dt 4 Commentaries StudyLight

Many complete commentaries on Deuteronomy 4 gathered on one page.

Background & Word Study

BibleProject: Deuteronomy OverviewBibleProject: Dt Overview BibleProject

Animated overview of the message and structure of Deuteronomy.

Sefaria: Deuteronomy 4 (Hebrew)Sefaria: Dt 4 (Hebrew) Sefaria

Hebrew text with English and classical Jewish commentary on the chapter.

BibleHub: Deuteronomy 4 InterlinearBibleHub: Dt 4 Interlinear BibleHub

Hebrew-English interlinear for word-level study of the chapter.

The Church Fathers

Catena: Deuteronomy 4Catena: Dt 4 Catena

Patristic comments gathered verse by verse on Deuteronomy 4.

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