Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
These words form the beginning of what is termed the "Shema" ("Hear" ) in the Jewish Services, and belong to the daily morning and evening office. They may be called "the creed of the Jews."
This weighty text contains far more than a mere declaration of the unity of God as against polytheism; or of the sole authority of the revelation that He had made to Israel as against other pretended manifestations of His will and attributes. It asserts that the Lord God of Israel is absolutely God, and none other. He, and He alone, is Jehovah (Yahweh) the absolute, uncaused God; the One who had, by His election of them, made Himself known to Israel.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Deuteronomy 6:8-9
Isaiah 54:5
Matthew 22:34-40
Matthew 23:5
Mark 12:28-34
1 Corinthians 2:10
1 Corinthians 8:4
Galatians 3:20
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