Perhaps some of us are finding these chapters long and not so very interesting. But remember that it is out of God’s deep interest in a people He loves, that these rules are given. Think how much He must have thought about them, to tell them of even the smallest matters, like lost clothes (verse 3), bird’s nests (verse 6), and eating grapes in a neighbor’s vineyard (Chap. 23:24)! Surely, He has as deep an interest in those who believe in the Lord Jesus in these days. With loving thoughts, He concerns Himself with all our affairs by day and by night! Knowing this, in the twenty-third Psalm, David records of God as his Shepherd, “Thou art with me” “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”
Chapters 22 and 23 show us not only things that are right, and things that are wrong: they go further and tell us what God’s will is about even the smallest matters in our lives: what is pleasing to Him, and what He cannot be pleased with. How, shall anyone know what he should do or should not do? By studying the Word of God, of course. The Bible is a mine of wealth, as someone has said very truly.