Deuteronomy 5:33

33 "¹You shall walk in all the way which the LORD your God has commanded you, ²that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you will possess.

Deuteronomy 5:33 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 5:33

Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath
commanded you
None are to be avoided or departed from on any consideration whatever; see ( Psalms 119:6 ) an instance of this we have in Zacharias and Elizabeth, ( Luke 1:6 ) that ye may live; corporeally, comfortably, in all the outward enjoyments of life needful for them, particularly in the possession of the land of Canaan, and the benefits of it; for these promises of life upon obedience seem to reach no further, unless as types and emblems of what is enjoyed through the obedience and righteousness of Christ, as the following phrases show:

and [that] it [may] be well with you, and [that] ye may prolong your
days in the land which ye shall possess;
the land of Canaan; though the Jewish writers ^F13 carry it further, even to heaven and eternal happiness; and so may we in the sense before given.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 Moreh Nevochim, par. 3. c. 27. p. 418.

Deuteronomy 5:33 In-Context

31 'But as for you, stand here by Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which you shall teach them, that they may observe them in the land which I give them to possess.'

32 "So you shall observe to do just as the LORD your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left.

33 "You shall walk in all the way which the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you will possess.

Cross References

• 1. Deuteronomy 10:12; Jeremiah 7:23; Luke 1:6
• 2. Deuteronomy 4:1, 40; Deuteronomy 12:25, 28; Deuteronomy 22:7; Ephesians 6:3