Daily Bible Nugget #232, Deuteronomy 11:18

The Nugget:

Deuteronomy 11:18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

My Comment:

The Scriptures should be laid up in the heart. Once again God tells us in His written Word in the Bible that we should lay up His words in our heart and in our soul. It looks to me that He even suggested that His words be written down in a portable format so they could be taken with them wherever they went so they could be talked about. In our day we have pocket Bibles and pocket New Testaments. We even have them available in portable electronic devices for ready reference. Just taking these words with us in some type of physical or digital format does not lay up these words in our heart and in our soul. To lay up God’s Word in our heart we must read it for ourselves. Some of the most significant and instructive verses we should consider committing to memory. The Psalmist said he hid God’s Word in his heart so he would not sin against God (Psalm 119:11). God’s Word does provide a mighty sword (Ephesians 6:17). God’s Word is the source of faith (Romans 10:17). Faith is listed among the armor we are to use in spiritual warfare (Ephesians 6:16). If you have not been putting on the whole armor of God (Ephesians 6:10, 11) you are inviting spiritual defeat. Get into the Bible by reading it regularly. Memorize passages that are most helpful to you. If we all did these things and shared these ideas with others to have them follow our good example, the world, at least our world, would be a better place. Jesus once said something like “If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them” (John 13:17).

For those who desire to DIG DEEPER into this subject:

(1) Consult the cross references given in Nelson’s Cross Reference Guide to the Bible on page 191 for Deuteronomy 11:18.

(2) Consult the cross references given in The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge on page 209 or in Logos 5 Bible software for Deuteronomy 11:18.

(3) Lacking access to those two resources, consult the cross references for this passage as I have developed them as given below:

Deuteronomy 11:18. ye lay up. See on +*Dt 6:6-9. +*Dt 17:19. 32:46. Ex 13:9, 16. Nu 15:39. +*Jsh 1:8. **Ps 119:11, 30, 129-131. *Pr 3:1. 6:20-23. *Pr 7:2, 3. Ac 8:28. *Col 3:16. *He 2:1. 2 P 1:12. 3:1, 2. these my words. +**Jn 5:39n. in your heart. +*Ps 37:31. soul. Heb. nephesh, +Ge 34:3. bind them. Pr 3:3. a sign. *Mt 23:5. as frontlets. Dt 6:8. between your eyes. Re 13:16.

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One Response to Daily Bible Nugget #232, Deuteronomy 11:18

  1. ken sagely says:

    dt 11.18 You shall therefore impress these words of mine on your heart and on
    your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as
    a frontals on your foreheads.

    encouraging cross refs(the best commentary on the bible is the bible)
    1. psm. 119.11 Thy word i have treasured in my heart, that i may not sin
    against Thee.
    2. prov 3.1 My son, do not forget my teaching, But let your heart keep my
    commandments;
    3. col. 3.16 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom
    teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual
    songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
    4. heb 2.1 For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have
    heard, lest we drift away from it.

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