11:1
God has been faithful to His people, despite their unfaithfulness. So they should “love the Lord your God and keep His requirements”. Decrees, laws and commands are then added, though it seems a bit tautologous. However, they are to obey everything that the Lord has told them to obey.
11:2
This generation had seen many of the things that the Lord had done. Now, all the men twenty and over at the time of the refusal to enter the Promised Land had died in the desert. However, there would be those who were under twenty at the time, and women who had witnessed these things. Future generations would not have seen them directly. So they needed to learn the lessons, and then teach them to their children. Note that it refers to the “discipline of the Lord your God” as well as His majesty and the acts that He performed. They needed to know that rebellion and disobedience would have consequences. The Lord would act. Today we are too often reluctant to talk about sin and God’s judgement upon it. This is not an attitude that we find in the Bible.
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