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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 26:5

A Syrian ready to perish was my father - The reference is shown by the context to be to Jacob, as the ancestor in whom particularly the family of Abraham began to develop into a nation (compare Isaiah 43:22, Isaiah 43:28, etc.). Jacob is called a Syrian (literally, Aramaean), not only because of his own long residence in Syria with Laban Gen. 29–31, as our Lord was called a Nazarene because of his residence at Nazareth Matthew 2:23, but because he there married and had his children (compare Hosea 12:12); and might be said accordingly to belong to that more than to any other land.

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See also Deuteronomy 26:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 26:5. _A SYRIAN READY TO PERISH_ WAS _MY FATHER_] This passage has been variously understood, both by the ancient versions and by modern commentators. The _Vulgate_ renders it thus:...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SPEAK AND SAY. Note the idiom, generally rendered "answer and say", where the first verb must always be rendered according to the context. Here "confess and say". SYRIAN. an Aramaean: i.e. Jacob. RE...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _answer_ TESTIFY, as in Deuteronomy 5:20; Deuteronomy 19:16; Deuteronomy 19:18; Deuteronomy 21:7;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 5. _AND THOU SHALT SPEAK,_ &C.— The sum of the acknowledgment amounts to this: that their possession of that land was entirely owing to the bounty of God, and not left them by their ancestors;...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    (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,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THOU SHALT SPEAK AND SAY BEFORE THE LORD THY GOD, A SYRIAN READY TO PERISH WAS MY FATHER, AND HE WENT DOWN INTO EGYPT, AND SOJOURNED THERE WITH A FEW, AND BECAME THERE A NATION, GREAT, MIGHTY, AN...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    26:5 Aramean (b-13) Or 'A Syrian in danger of perishing.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    A SYRIAN] Jacob is meant. His mother came from Aram-naharaim (Genesis 24:10), and he himself spent fourteen years in that country (Genesis 28:1; Genesis 29-31). The term implies a suggestion of dispar...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ עָנִ֨יתָ וְ אָמַרְתָּ֜ לִ פְנֵ֣י ׀ יְהוָ֣ה

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A (c) Syrian ready to perish [was] my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, might...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _The Syrian. Laban. See Genesis xxvii. (Challoner) --- Hebrew, "My father was a Syrian, poor, (or ready to perish) and he went down," &c. The ancestors of Jacob had, in effect, come from beyond the Eu...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Jacob was in fact a Syrian, for he lived many years in Padanaram. And Laban, his father-in-law, was a Syrian, consequently his daughters sprung from thence. It is good to remind the spiritual Israel o...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THOU SHALT SPEAK AND SAY BEFORE THE LORD THY GOD,.... Speak with a loud voice, lifting up the voice, as Jarchi interprets it; or "answer" e, to the question the priest will ask, saying, what is th...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish [was] my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, a...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _A Syrian was my father_ That is, Jacob; for though born in Canaan, he was a Syrian by descent, his mother Rebecca, and his grandfather Abraham, being both of Chaldea or Mesopotamia, which in Scriptur...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord, thy God, a Syrian, ready to perish, an Aramean wandering about, WAS MY FATHER, a reference to Jacob's journey to Mesopotamia and to his subsequent wanderi...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Jacob was a SYRIAN, partly, by his original, as being born of Syrian parents, as were Abraham and Rebekah, both of Chaldea or Mesopotamia, which was a part of Syria largely so called, as is confessed...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 26:5 answer H6030 (H8804) say H559 (H8804) before H6440 LORD H3068 God H430 father H1 Syrian...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _A Syrian ready to perish was my father._ HUMILIATION IN CONNECTION WITH GRATITUDE Such was the confession required of every priest of Israel when he presented, before the altar, the offering of firs...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 26:1__ The final section of specific laws deals with the offering of firstfruits and tithes in the land. ⇐...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 26:5 These verses could be seen as a statement of faith, used in Israel’s worship to remember God’s faithfulness. ARAMEAN refers to Jacob, who married the daughters of...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 7:15; Deuteronomy 10:22; Deuteronomy 7:7; Exodus 1:12; Exodus 1:5;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    A Syrian — So Jacob was, partly by his original, as being born of Syrian parents, as were Abraham and Rebecca, both of Chaldea or Mesopotamia, which was a part of Syria largely so called, partly by hi...

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