Deuteronomy 11:21

Deuteronomy 11:21 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
• New International Version (NIV)so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.
• English Standard Version (ESV)that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.
• New King James Version (NKJV)that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth.

Context of Deuteronomy 11:21

19Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you sit together at home. Talk about them as you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 20Write them on the wood beside the doors of your houses and on your gates. Do these things so that you and your descendants will live long lives in the land. It is the land that the Lord promised to give to your ancestors. You will continue to live there while there is still a sky above the earth. 22Be careful to obey these commands that I am giving to you. Love the Lord your God. Live in a way that pleases him. Be faithful to him. 23If you do that, the Lord will chase out all those nations as you move into the land. They are greater and stronger than you are, but you will take the land from them.

Deuteronomy 11:21 word by word

לְמַ֨עַן יִרְבּ֤וּ יְמֵיכֶם֙ וִימֵ֣י בְנֵיכֶ֔ם עַ֚ל הָֽאֲדָמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר נִשְׁבַּ֧ע יְהוָ֛ה לַאֲבֹתֵיכֶ֖ם לָתֵ֣ת לָהֶ֑ם כִּימֵ֥י הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• That your daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• may be multipliedרָבָהrâbâh · to multiplyH7235
• of your childrenבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
• in the landאֲדָמָה'ădâmâh · land: soilH127
• which the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• swareשָׁבַעshâba‛ · to swearH7650
• unto your fathersאָב'âb · fatherH1
• to giveנָתַןnâthan · to give: giveH5414
• of heavenשָׁמַיִםshâmayim shâmeh · heavenH8064
• upon the earthאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776

Cross-references for Deuteronomy 11:21

• Deuteronomy 4:40Obey his commands and his rules that I am giving you today. If you do that, everything will be well for you and for your descendants. You will continue to live for a long time in the land that the Lord your God is giving to you. It will belong to you for ever.
• Deuteronomy 5:16Always respect your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you. Then you will live for many years in the land that the Lord your God will give to you. And you will be happy.
• Deuteronomy 6:2You must respect the Lord your God with fear. You must obey his rules and his commands that I am teaching you. You, your children and your grandchildren must obey them all through your lives. If you do that, you will enjoy a long life.
• Proverbs 3:2If you obey them, you will live a long life. You will have peace in your mind. and you will enjoy your life.
• Proverbs 4:10So listen to me, my child, and accept my teaching. If you do, the years of your life will be many.
• Proverbs 9:11Wisdom will add more days and years to your life.
• Psalms 72:5May people always respect your authority, God, through all time, as long as the sun and the moon remain in the sky.
• Psalms 89:28I will always love him with my faithful love. I will never change the covenant that I have made with him.
• Isaiah 65:20Never again will there be a baby who only lives for a few days. Old men will continue to live a long life. People will live until they are 100 years old and they will still seem young. If anyone dies before he is 100 years old, people will think that God has cursed him.
• Revelation 20:6God has blessed those people that he raises up that first time. They belong to God as his holy people. The second death has no power over them. Instead, they will be priests who serve God and Christ. They will rule as kings with him for 1,000 years.

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 11:21

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 21The sense is: “Keep the covenant faithfully, and so shall your own and your children‘s days be multiplied as long as the heaven covers the earth.” The promise of Canaan to Israel was thus a perpetual promise, but also a conditional one.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-25Verses 18-25 Let all be directed by the three rules here given. 1. Let our hearts be filled with the word of God. There will not be good practices in the life, unless there be good thoughts, good affections, and good principles in the heart. 2. Let our eyes be fixed upon the word of God, having constant regard to it as the guide of our way, as the rule of our work, Psa 119:30. 3. Let our tongues be employed about the word of God. Nor will any thing do…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-32Here, Moses adds to the covenant stipulations (the commands in chapters 5–11) a list of blessings and curses. These blessings and curses are similar to the longer list that appears at the end of the covenant text in 27–28. They show the results of obeying or disobeying the covenant.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 18-2518-25. lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them--(See on De 6:1).Read the comment

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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings