And [mention, O Muhammad], when Allah took a covenant from those who (3:187)

Almuntakhab Fi Tafsir Alquran Alkarim

For once did Allah make a covenant with Ahl AL-Kitab. They should make the Book genuinely known to everyone and not hide the least part of its text and its precepts. However they cast it behind their backs and exchanged the truth for the worthless vanity of the fleeting and ephemeral world. How evil and how ill indeed is the advantage they gained

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(3:187) And recall when Allah took a covenant from those who were given the Book: 'You shall explain it to men and not hide it. *132 Then they cast the Book behind their backs, and sold it away for a trivial gain. Evil indeed is their bargain.

And [mention, O Muhammad], when Allah took a covenant from those who meaning

*132). Although the Jews remembered that some Prophets had been endowed with the miracle of consuming fire, they conveniently forgot their covenant with God at the time they were entrusted with the Scripture, and their mission as the bearers of the Scripture. The 'covenant' to which this verse alludes is mentioned at several places in the Bible. In the last sermon of Moses, cited in Deuteronomy, he again and again calls the attention of Israel to the covenant in the following words: 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your might. And these words which I command shall be upon your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. And you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.' (Deuteronomy 6: 4-9.)
Then, in his last testament Moses said: 'And on the day you pass over the Jordan to the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall set up large stones, and plaster them with plaster and you shall write upon them all the words of this law, when you pass over to enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you. And when you have passed over the Jordan, you shall set up these stones, concerning which I command you this day, on Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.' (Deuteronomy 27: 2-4.) When the Levites were handed a copy of the Torah, they were instructed to gather men, women and children every seventh year on the occasion of the Feast of Tabernacles and to recite the entire text to them. But their indifference to the Book of God grew to such a point that seven hundred years later even the priests of the Temple of Solomon and the Jewish ruler of Jerusalem did not know that they had the Book of God with them. (See 2 Kings 22: 8-13.)
 

And [mention, O Muhammad], when Allah took a covenant from those who meaning in Urdu

اِن اہل کتاب کو وہ عہد بھی یاد دلاؤ جو اللہ نے ان سے لیا تھا کہ تمہیں کتاب کی تعلیمات کو لوگوں میں پھیلانا ہوگا، انہیں پوشیدہ رکھنا نہیں ہوگا مگر انہوں نے کتاب کو پس پشت ڈال دیا اور تھوڑی قیمت پر اُسے بیچ ڈالا کتنا برا کاروبار ہے جو یہ کر رہے ہیں