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Deuteronomy 15:1-23

Contents: Laws concerning Sabbatic year and bondservants.

Characters: God, Moses.

Conclusion: That we who have received in abundance from God should be rigorous and severe in our demands from poor brethren, is displeasing to God. His tender care of us obliges us to be kind to those who have a dependence upon us.

Key Word: Release, Deuteronomy 15:1.

Strong Verses: Deuteronomy 15:6; Deuteronomy 15:7; Deuteronomy 15:8; Deuteronomy 15:10.

Striking Facts: The year of release typifies the grace of the Gospel in which is proclaimed the acceptable year of the Lord, by which we obtain the release of our debts, the pardon of our sins, teaching us to forgive others as we have been forgiven.

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See also Deuteronomy 15:1-23 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER XV _The Sabbatical year of release_, 1. _The manner in which this release shall take place_, 2-5. _Of lending to the poor, and the disposition in which it should_ _be done_, 6-11. Of the...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The year of release is no doubt identical with the sabbatical year of the earlier legislation (Exodus 23:10 ff, and Leviticus 25:2 ff), the command of the older legislation being here amplified. The r...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    11. THE YEAR OF RELEASE AND LIBERATION OF HEBREW SLAVES CHAPTER 15:1-18 _ 1. The year of release (Deuteronomy 15:1)_ 2. The liberation of the Hebrew slaves (Deuteronomy 15:12) The poor and those wh...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Three laws in the interest of the poor: the Sabbatical year, or year of release (p. 102, Exodus 21:2 *, Leviticus 25:39 *). Deuteronomy 15:1. Every seventh year (probably the same year was observed th...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SEVEN YEARS. when the seventh year has arrived. Compare Exodus 23:10; Exodus 23:11.Leviticus 25:3; Leviticus 25:4. RELEASE. Compare

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _At the end of seven years_ So Heb. That is, in the seventh year, as is clearly put in Deuteronomy 15:12 (cp. Jeremiah 34:14): see also Deuteronomy 14:28. _a release_ or _remission_, Heb. shemi

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    (2) THE YEAR OF RELEASE (Deuteronomy 15:1-6) At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. 2 And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he hath lent un...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    LESSON TWELVE DEUTERONOMY 14:22 TO DEUTERONOMY 15:23 c. DIFFERENCES IN ECONOMIC PRACTICES (Deuteronomy 14:22 to...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AT THE END OF EVERY SEVEN YEARS THOU SHALT MAKE A RELEASE._ At the end of every seven years - during the last of the seven; i:e., the Sabbatical year (Exodus 21:2; Exodus 28:11; Leviticus 25:4;...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SABBATICAL YEAR This chapter deals with the year of release, or the Sabbatical Year, and should be compared with Leviticus 25. In addition to the rest for the land and the manumission of Hebrew sl...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 15 V1 ‘At the end of every 7 years, you must cancel debts. V2 This is what you must do. Everyon...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XV. (1) AT THE END OF EVERY SEVEN YEARS THOU SHALT MAKE A RELEASE. — The Law in this place is an extension of that which we find in Exodus 21:2, &c, and Leviticus 25:3, &c., There was not only to be a...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מִ קֵּ֥ץ שֶֽׁבַע ־שָׁנִ֖ים תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה שְׁמִטָּֽה׃...

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

    Here we have provision made for the relief of the poor and the less fortunate at regularly stated intervals. The great ideal is revealed in the words, "There shall be no poor with thee." This, however...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _In the. Hebrew, "at the extremity of seven years," which some erroneously refer to the end, though the original signify also the beginning. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I call upon the Reader in a very particular manner in the opening of this chapter, to remember the motto which I have so often endeavored to bring to his recollection, that Moses wrote of CHRIST; for...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    CONTENTS We have in this Chapter a continuation of Moses' discourse. Here are contained, the order for the release of debtors every seventh year: cautions to the people not to withhold lending to the...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be called an abstract typical system. That is, we see in them a number of institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which wa...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    1._At the end of every seven years_. A special act of humanity towards each other is here prescribed to the Jews, that every seven years, brother should remit to brother whatever was owed him. But, al...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 14 AND 15. Chapter 14 forbids that the people, as being the children of the living God, should imitate the profane customs which indicated the devotedness of...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AT THE END OF EVERY SEVEN YEARS THOU SHALT MAKE A RELEASE. Not of servants, for they were not to be dismissed from their service until they had served six years, as is directed to in a following law;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    At the end of [every] seven years thou shalt make a release. Ver. 1. _At the end of every._] This Sabbatical year signified the year of grace, the kingdom of Christ, wherein all Israelites indeed are...

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

    _At the end of every seven years_ When the seventh year comes, which is the end or last of the seven, Deuteronomy 15:9; Deuteronomy 15:12. This termed here _the year of release_, was the sabbatical ye...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    [RELEASING DEBTS.] 1 The seuenth yeere a yeere of release for the poore. 7 It must be no let of lending or giuing. 12 An Ebrew seruant, 16 except hee will not depart, must in the seuenth yeere goe...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. At the end of every Sabbatic year, after the close of the harvest season, when the accounts mere cast up, every creditor was to remember that...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    OF THE TREATMENT OF THE POOR...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    SEVENTH YEAR RELEASE OF DEBTS (vs.1-6) Out of compassion for the poor God required creditors to release debtors from their debts at the end of seven years. This surely reminds us of the grace of God...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-11 This year of release typified the grace of the gospel, in which is proclaimed the acceptable year of the Lord; and by which we obtain the release of our debts, that is, the pardon of our sins. T...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 15 The seventh year a year of release, DEUTERONOMY 15:1, to their brethren only, DEUTERONOMY 15:2,3. God promiseth to bless them in the land of Canaan, Deuteronomy 15:4

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. And this is the manner of the release. Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his n...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 15:1 end H7093 seven H7651 years H8141 grant H6213 (H8799) release H8059...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 15 THE GENEROSITY REQUIRED TO THOSE IN EXTREME POVERTY AND TO BONDSMEN BEING RELEASED, AND THE REQUIREMENT FOR COMPASSION IN ALL RELATIONSHIPS. Moses would expect that his reference to this th...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Deuteronomy 15:1. _A release_ of all debts, as well as of servitude, at the end of the sixth year, to the poor who cannot pay. This is much the same as the English law of cancelling bookdebts at the e...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Keep the Passover._ THE YEARLY FESTIVALS The darker side of the Jewish religion was more than relieved by its outlets for joy. It identified in a marvelous manner the holy day and the holiday (see t...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 15:1__ The laws in these verses relate to the sabbatical year. See Exodus 23:10 and...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.—The rules for the relief of the poor (Levites, strangers, widows, and orphans) by the triennial tithe are followed by others which forbid oppression. DEUTERONOMY 15:1. Seven years. Dur...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE YEAR OF RELEASE FOR THE BENEFIT OF DEBTORS AND THE EMANCIPATION OF HEBREW SLAVES. THE SANCTIFICATION OF THE FIRSTBORN...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter fifteen, At the end of every seven years you're to make a release (Deuteronomy 15:1). All of the debts were to be forgiven in the seventh year. Now, you're not to demand it again after the se...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 31:10; Exodus 21:2; Exodus 23:10; Exodus 23:11; Isaiah 61

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    At the end — That is, in the last year of the seven, as is, most evident from Deuteronomy 15:9. And this year of release, as it is, called below, Deuteronomy 15:9, is the same with the sabbatical year...

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