Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Deuteronomy 26:3
Unto the priest, i.e. to any of the priests, who shall be appointed in God's stead to receive these oblations and acknowledgements.
Unto the priest, i.e. to any of the priests, who shall be appointed in God's stead to receive these oblations and acknowledgements.
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...
A preliminary offering of first-fruits (Deuteronomy 18:4) is to be presented annually in a basket (Deuteronomy 28:5; Deuteronomy 28:17) at the Temple, a hymn or liturgy, acknowledging Yahweh's goodnes...
PROFESS. declare. THIS DAY. See note on Deuteronomy 4:26....
Possibly a later interpolation, see introd. note....
_the priest … in those days_ Deuteronomy 17:9; Deuteronomy 19:17. _Priest_probably collective (cp. _prophet_, Deuteronomy 18:15), not necessarily high-priest. _profess_ or _declare_, s
IV. Fourth Division of the Laws. Ideals of Ritual Procedure with Proper Prayers, Deuteronomy 26:1-15 The Presentation of Firstfruits (Deuteronomy 26:1-11) and the Distribution of Tithes (D
DISCOURSE: 217 GRATITUDE TO GOD ENFORCED Deuteronomy 26:3. And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the Lord thy God, that I am come unt...
(2) OFFERING THE FIRST-FRUITS (Deuteronomy 26:1-11) And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein,...
_AND THOU SHALT GO UNTO THE PRIEST THAT SHALL BE IN THOSE DAYS, AND SAY UNTO HIM, I PROFESS THIS DAY UNTO THE LORD THY GOD, THAT I AM COME UNTO THE COUNTRY WHICH THE LORD SWARE UNTO OUR FATHERS FOR TO...
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...
XXVI. Deuteronomy 26:1. PRESENTATION OF THE FIRST FRUITS. (1) WHEN THOU ART COME IN. — Rashi says they were not bound to the discharge of this duty until they had conquered and divided the land. But...
וּ בָאתָ֙ אֶל ־הַ כֹּהֵ֔ן אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִהְיֶ֖ה
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...
Nothing could be more proper, than that every Israelite with his own mouth, should confess that the LORD had fulfilled his promise, in bringing him to the land he had said. Reader! and will not every...
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...
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...
AND THOU SHALT GO UNTO THE PRIEST THAT SHALL BE IN THOSE DAYS,.... Whose course and turn it would be to minister before the Lord; though, according to the Targum of Jonathan, it was the high priest th...
_I profess this day unto the Lord_ Thus, at his presenting them to the priest in waiting, the offerer was to declare he brought them in humble and grateful acknowledgment of the divine providence and...
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...
And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, the officiating priest, AND SAY UNTO HIM, I PROFESS THIS DAY UNTO THE LORD, THY GOD, THAT I AM COME UNTO THE COUNTRY WHICH THE LORD SWARE...
PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING...
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...
1-11 When God has made good his promises to us, he expects we should own it to the honour of his faithfulness. And our creature comforts are doubly sweet, when we see them flowing from the fountain o...
"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 26:3 go H935 (H8804) priest H3548 days H3117 say H559 (H8804) declare H5046 (H8689) today...
THE OFFERING OF THE FIRSTFRUITS (DEUTERONOMY 26:1). The offering of the firstfruits was to take place at the Feast of Sevens when the harvest had hopefully been gathered in. Here Israel were commanded...
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 Peter 2:5; Deuteronomy 19:17; Genesis 17:8; Genesis 26:3; Hebrews