John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 1. Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God , etc.] Because he is so great and glorious in himself, and because he had done such great and good things for them, the Israelites, particularly in the multiplication of them, the last thing mentioned: and keep his charge ; whatsoever the Lord had charged them to observe, even what follow: and his statutes and his judgments, and his commandments, alway ; all his laws, ceremonial, judicial, and moral; and that constantly and continually, all the days of their lives.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-7 - Observe the connexion of these two; Thou shalt love the Lord, and kee his charge. Love will work in obedience, and that only is acceptabl obedience which flows from a principle of love, 1Jo 5:3. Moses recount some of the great and terrible works of God which their eyes had seen What our eyes have seen, especially in our early days, should affec us, and make us better long afterwards.
Original Hebrew ואהבת157 את853 יהוה3068 אלהיך430 ושׁמרת8104 משׁמרתו4931 וחקתיו2708 ומשׁפטיו4941 ומצותיו4687 כל3605 הימים׃3117
