What does Deuteronomy 6 6-9 mean?

Answer 1

It means that the Israelites should not think that their righteousness alone is enough for them to deserve the Holy Land (were it not for the wickedness of the Canaanites).

Answer 2

God instructs His elected to keep their focus on Him,and not be swayed by heathen ways.The instructions are very explicit,so as to leave no room for doubt or argument.God also gives a stern warning in His commands to the people.It would take me several days to explain the entirety of Deut.6,but the short answer is that God tells His own to put others before themselves,and Him before all others.

Answer 3

In these verses, the Lord has told His people, the Israelites, that He was going to give them a pleasant, fertile land to live in. All they had to do in return (!) was to go to war with a number of tribes larger than they, have absolutely nothing to do with these tribes, and destroy these tribes' religious places and things.

Answer 4

The name Deuteronomy is derived from the Greek words deuteros, which means "second", and nomos, which means "law". It is a mistranslation of the Hebrew mishneh hattorah hazzoth, which actually means "a copy of this law".

Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Pentateuch/ Books of Moses/ Torah/ Old Testament/ Bible. It is basically a review of the Mosaic Law originally introduced in Exodus, the second book of the Pentateuch, but with additional commentary.

Authorship of the Pentateuch, the first five books of The Bible, is attributed to Moses.

Answer 5

For the sake of ease, here is Deuteronomy 6:13-16 (NIV): 13 Fear the Lord your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. 14 Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you; 15 for the Lord your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land. 16 Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did at Massah.

• Verse 13 is rather straightforward. It is an injunction by Moses to be in awe and fear of God and to follow Him exclusively.
• Verse 14 is rather straightforward as well. It is the complimentary injunction to verse 13, i.e. do not follow other gods.
• Verse 15 refers to the wrath that God will visit on those who violate the covenant. It refers to such incidents as described in Numbers 25:1-9 and the general curses described in Deuteronomy 28:15-68.
• Verse 16 refers particularly to the events at Massah, which is the episode where Moses struck the rock in Exodus 17:1-7. This was an episode where the Israelites (and Moses as well) tried God's patience.

Answer 6

means the red sea