Remember God’s Words

Moses tells Israel to fix the LORD's words within themselves, teach them to their children, and mark them on house and gate. In this way the covenant is carried through ordinary life, and their days in the land are extended.

F¹⁸ix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. ¹⁹Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. ²⁰Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates, ²¹so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.

If Israel carefully loves the LORD, walks in His ways, and holds fast to Him, He will drive out stronger nations before them. Their territory will widen, and no one will stand against them because the LORD will put dread of them on the land.

²²For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow— to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him— ²³then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you. ²⁴Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea. ²⁵No man will be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put the fear and dread of you upon all the land, wherever you set foot, as He has promised you.