Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Deuteronomy 26:17
Avouched, or declared, or professed, or owned. This day, i.e. at this time, in this wilderness, where thou hast accepted and ratified God's covenant.
Avouched, or declared, or professed, or owned. This day, i.e. at this time, in this wilderness, where thou hast accepted and ratified God's covenant.
Verse Deuteronomy 26:17. _THOU HAST AVOUCHED THE LORD_] The people _avouch _- publicly declare, that they have taken Jehovah to be their God....
A brief and earnest exhortation by way of conclusion to the second and longest discourse of the book. Deuteronomy 26:17 THOU HAST AVOUCHED - literally, “made to say:” so also in the next verse. The s...
22. FIRSTFRUITS AND PRAYER CHAPTER 26 _ 1. The basket of first-fruits, confession and rejoicing (Deuteronomy 26:1)_ 2. Obedience yielded and prayer (Deuteronomy 26:12) 3. Jehovah acknowledges His...
Concluding exhortations to obedience based upon the covenant (Deuteronomy 4:13 *) between Yahweh and Israel, with its mutual obligations. Deuteronomy 26:17_ f_. AVOUCHED: Heb. caused to say, each of t...
AVOUCHED. avowed. AND. Note Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6) in verses: Deuteronomy 26:17....
Concluding Exhortation The proclamation of these laws and the consequent duty of Israel to keep them (Deuteronomy 26:16) constitute a contract between Jehovah and Israel, by which He declares Himself...
_Thou hast avouched the Lord_, etc.] i.e. acknowledged (see Wright's _Bible Word Book_); lit. CAUSED JEHOVAH TO SAY THAT HE WILL BE THY GOD. This form of the Heb. vb. only here and Deuteronomy 26:18....
DISCOURSE: 218 COVENANTING WITH GOD EXPLAINED Deuteronomy 26:17. Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ju...
_VER._ 17. _THOU HAST AVOUCHED,_ &C.— Thou hast _said, solemnly professed,_ or _protested;_ and so in the 18th verse it is said, _the Lord hath avouched thee,_ &c. the close of which sentence should b...
(4) CONCLUDING EXHORTATION TO CAREY OUT COMMITMENTS TO GOD AND HIS LAW (Deuteronomy 26:16-19) 16 This day Jehovah thy God commandeth thee to do these statutes and ordinances; thou shalt therefore keep...
THE PRESENTATION OF FIRSTERUITS AND OF TITHES 1-11. Presentation of the Firstfruits, as a Thankoffering for the mercy of God in delivering the nation from Egypt and in giving them a good land and fru...
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 26 V1 ‘The *LORD your God is giving this country to you to possess. You will own it and you wil...
Deuteronomy 26:16. CLOSE OF THE EXHORTATION. (16) THIS DAY THE LORD THY GOD HATH COMMANDED THEE. — These words are not to be taken as part of the service described in the previous verses, but as the w...
אֶת ־יְהוָ֥ה הֶאֱמַ֖רְתָּ הַ יֹּ֑ום לִ הְיֹות
FIRST-FRUITS AND TITHES Deuteronomy 26:1 The Israelites were God's tenants-at-will. The entire land and its produce were His; and they were required to acknowledge His ownership by the payment of fir...
Here we have the final movement in the second of these great farewell discourses of Moses. In it the lawgiver lifted his eyes and looked at the land to be possessed, and proceeded to tell the people h...
I would have the Reader attend to the expressions in these verses, with an eye to the original covenant of grace, and he will then enter into a proper apprehension of them. That original covenant was,...
It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22. What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...
17._Thou hast avouched the Lord _(231) He shews them from the consequence that nothing can be better or more desirable for them than to embrace God’s Law; for nothing can be more honorable to ourselve...
To close this succession of ordinances, we have (chap. 26) a most beautiful picture of the worship consequent on the enjoyment of the land according to the promises of God, a picture full of instructi...
THOU HAST AVOUCHED THE LORD THIS DAY TO BE THY GOD,.... Said, affirmed, protested, and in the most solemn manner declared, that the Lord was their God, and him only; and that they would have no other...
Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: Ver. 17. _Thou hast avou...
_Avouched_ Or _declared_, or _owned. Avouched thee_ Hath owned thee for such before all the world, by eminent and glorious manifestations of his power and favour, by a solemn entering into covenant wi...
1 The confession of him that offereth the basket of First fruits. 12 The prayer of him that giueth his third yeere Tithes. 16 The couenant betweene God and the people. 1 AND it shall be when thou a...
Thou hast avouched, said of causing the other party of a contract to say, to make a declaration regarding some intention, THE LORD THIS DAY TO BE THY GOD, AND TO WALK IN HIS WAYS, AND TO KEEP HIS STAT...
KEEPING THE COVENANT...
FIRSTFRUITS AND TITHES (vs.1-15) In Amalek we have seen that which God refuses. Now a lovely positive contrast is seen in that which God accepts. The Lord giving Israel their promised land, and He wo...
16-19 Moses here enforces the precepts. They are God's laws, therefore thou shalt do them, to that end were they given thee; do them, and dispute them not; do them, and draw not back; do them, not ca...
"And it shall be, _ when thou shalt come in_ unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and _ possessest_ it, and _ dwellest_ therein; that thou shalt take of the first of al...
Deuteronomy 26:17 Today H3117 proclaimed H559 (H8689) LORD H3068 God H430 walk H3212 (H8800) ways H1870 keep
VII THE COVENANT CEREMONY (DEUTERONOMY 26:16 TO DEUTERONOMY 27:26). The covenant having been fully outlined and declared, and the tribute having been offered, the covenant ceremony can now be prepare...
CONTENTS: Law of the offering of the firstfruits. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: We are to acknowledge God as giver of all good things which are the support and comfort of our natural lives and...
Deuteronomy 26:5. _A Syrian ready to perish._ The whole Hebrew family came from Mesopotamia, and Jacob repassed the Euphrates with only a staff in his hand. It is good to remember that we rose from th...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 26:1__ The final section of specific laws deals with the offering of firstfruits and tithes in the land. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES.—The rehearsal of rights and duties, pubilc and private, terminates in this chapter with two liturgical enactments. These have a clear and close reference to the whole of the preceding...
EXPOSITION THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER AT THE PRESENTATION OF FIRSTFRUITS AND TITHES. As Moses began his exposition of the laws and rights instituted for Israel by a reference to the sanctuary as the pla...
Deuteronomy, beginning with chapter 26. Again it is important that we set the scene for you. Here's Moses, one hundred and twenty years old. In just a few days he's going to go up into the mountain an...
1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 Corinthians 6:20; 1 Kings 2:3; 1 Kings 2:4;...
Avouched — Or, declared, or owned....