Deuteronomy 14 - Introduction
_A.M. 2553. B.C. 1451._ Directions concerning mourning, Deuteronomy 14:1; Deuteronomy 14:2. Concerning clean and unclean meats, Deuteronomy 14:3. Concerning tithes, Deuteronomy 14:29.... [ Continue Reading ]
_A.M. 2553. B.C. 1451._ Directions concerning mourning, Deuteronomy 14:1; Deuteronomy 14:2. Concerning clean and unclean meats, Deuteronomy 14:3. Concerning tithes, Deuteronomy 14:29.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ye are the children of the Lord your God_ Ye are not only the creatures, and the offspring, but the peculiar people, the worshippers, the servants, and those of you that are truly pious, the adopted children of Jehovah, the one living and true God, who is _your God_ in covenant; and therefore you s... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou art a holy people_ Since you have the honour to be separated to God as a peculiar people, by laws different from those of all other nations, it behooves you to act suitably to the dignity of your privileges, and to beware of defiling yourselves with any such heathenish rites or practices as ar... [ Continue Reading ]
_The pygargs_ A kind of goat. _And the chamois_ Hebrew, זמר, _zemer_, which Bochart takes for that kind of goat which is called in Latin _Rupi-capra_, or mountain-goat, from the Arabic _zamara_, to bound like a roe.... [ Continue Reading ]
_And the glede_ Hebrew, הראה, _haraah_, a bird of the vulture kind, which evidently has its name from its sharp sight. This is omitted in Leviticus.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye _shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself_ The blood being in it, rendered it unlawful to be eaten. _Proselytes of the gate_, not being obliged to observe these laws, or mere Gentiles, who might happen to be in their country, might eat such meat. But those who were termed _proselytes of ri... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed_ There were three sorts of tithes to be paid from the people, besides those from the Levites to the priests; 1st, To the Levites for their maintenance, Leviticus 27:30; Numbers 18:21. These were to be eaten where they dwelt, (Numbers 14:31,) and t... [ Continue Reading ]
_When the Lord thy God hath blessed thee_ Hath given thee so great an increase that the tenth thereof is more than thou canst carry to the sanctuary. _Bind up the money in thy hand_ That is, in a bag, to be taken in thy hand and carried with thee.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou shalt bestow that money_, &c. This was an injunction to the Israelites to use a part of their income in hospitality; to rejoice in the goodness of God, when they came before his presence, to acknowledge he was the author of all their blessings, and to gladden the hearts of the poor, the father... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Levite thou shalt not forsake him_ Thou shalt give him a share in such tithes, or in the product of them. _At the end of three years_ That is, in the third year, as it is expressed Deuteronomy 26:12. _The same year_ This is added to show that he speaks of the third year, and not of the fourth,... [ Continue Reading ]
_The stranger, the fatherless, and the widow_ For this tithe was not to be spent merely in feasting themselves, but for the relief of such as were in want, who otherwise might have been compelled to beg, or to serve strangers, and thereby be in danger of being perverted from their religion.... [ Continue Reading ]