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Deuteronomy 10:20

Deuteronomy 10:20
Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God,.... Which includes the whole worship of him, external and internal:

him shalt thou serve; heartily and sincerely, according to his revealed will, and him only:…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Deuteronomy 10:12-22

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

See on Deu 6:13, which this repeats (with LXX, Sam., read, as there, and him) but adds another clause,

and to him shalt thou cleave This verb dabaḳis used in J of close and warm affection from man to…