Deuteronomy 6:24

“And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, etc.] Some of which were designed on purpose to commemorate the wonderful deliverance out of Egypt, as particularly the passover; and all of them they were obliged in gratitude to obey, in consideration of such great favours bestowed upon them: to fear the Lord our God, for our good always: as it is always for the good of men, temporal, spiritual, and eternal, to fear the Lord; for there is no want to them that fear him, nor will the Lord withhold good things from them; (see <193409>Psalm 34:9,10), that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day; in bodily health and strength, and in the enjoyment of the good land, and all the…”

“The Israelites were at the point of quitting a normal, life for a fixed and settled abode in the midst of other nations; they were exchanging a condition of comparative poverty for great and goodly cities, houses and vineyards. There was therefore before them a double danger; (1) a God-forgetting worldliness, and (2) a false tolerance of the idolatries practiced by those about to become their neighbors. The former error Moses strives to guard against in the verses before us; the latter in Deuteronomy 7:1-11. Deuteronomy 6:13 The command “to swear by His Name” is not inconsistent with the Lord’s injunction Matthew 5:34, “Swear not at all.” Moses refers to legal swearing, our Lord to swearing…”

“to fear: Deu 6:2 for our good: Deu 10:13; Job 35:7, Job 35:8; Pro 9:12; Isa 3:10; Jer 32:39; Mat 6:33; Rom 6:21, Rom 6:22 he might: Deu 4:1, Deu 4:4, Deu 8:1, Deu 8:3; Psa 41:2, Psa 66:9; Pro 22:4; Rom 10:5 Deuteronomy 6:25”