I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away [ought] thereof for [any] unclean [use], nor given [ought] thereof for the dead: [but] I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, [and] have done (m) according to all that thou hast commanded me.
(m) As far as my sinful nature would allow: or else as David and Paul say, there is not one just, (Psalms 14:3; Romans 3:10).
Verse Deuteronomy 26:14. _I HAVE NOT - GIVEN AUGHT THEREOF FOR THE DEAD_] That is, I have not consecrated any of it to an _idol_ which was generally a dead man whom superstition and ignorance had dei...
I HAVE NOT EATEN THEREOF IN MY MOURNING - When the Israelite would be unclean (compare the marginal references). NOR GIVEN OUGHT THEREOF FOR THE DEAD - The reference is not so much to the superstitiou...
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...
The liturgical formula to be used when the triennial charity tithe (the Deuteronomic poor rate) is offered in the various localities (Deuteronomy 14:28 f.); for the tithes of the first and second year...
MOURNING. Hebrew. _avon_,. Homonym: here. suffering, or sorrow (as in Genesis 35:18 (margin), and Hosea 9:4), but. might in Genesis 49:3. FOR THE DEAD. Probably. defilement for touching. dead body....
_I have not eaten thereof in my mourning_ Heb. _-awen_, _sorrow_; so in Hosea 9:4, _the bread of sorrows_is unclean. If the mourner, unclean by contact with the dead, ate part of the tithe, he defiled...
The Triennial Distribution of Tithes When the tithe of the third year is complete and given to the local poor then the giver shall attest before God that it has all been given and that he has not bro...
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
_VER._ 14. _I HAVE NOT EATEN THEREOF IN MY MOURNING,_ &C.— The expressions in this verse evidently refer to idolatrous customs, and they are further proofs how careful their legislator was to guard th...
(3) TITHES OF THE THIRD YEAR (Deuteronomy 26:12-15) 12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithe of thine increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then thou shalt give it un...
_I HAVE NOT EATEN THEREOF IN MY MOURNING, NEITHER HAVE I TAKEN AWAY OUGHT THEREOF FOR ANY UNCLEAN USE, NOR GIVEN OUGHT THEREOF FOR THE DEAD: BUT I HAVE HEARKENED TO THE VOICE OF THE LORD MY GOD, AND H...
26:14 uncleanness, (d-16) Or 'for [any] unclean use.'...
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...
As the presence of a dead body was ceremonially defiling in the highest degree, the offerer here declares that neither he nor his tithe was defiled in this way. The words given thereof for the dead ar...
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 26:12. DECLARATION OF THE TITHE. (12) WHEN THOU HAST MADE AN END. — The time fixed for making the confession prescribed in Deuteronomy 26:13, according to Jewish usage, was the Passover-ev...
לֹא ־אָכַ֨לְתִּי בְ אֹנִ֜י מִמֶּ֗נּוּ וְ לֹא
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...
Mourning. It was then unlawful to taste what was set apart for the Lord, and even to touch a thing, at that time, would render it unclean, Osee ix. 4. Others explain it thus: I have not eaten, how muc...
The Jews have a tradition, that these words were spoken with a low voice, in token of humility. And, indeed, if we read with an eye to the pure gospel of JESUS, there is a great propriety in so doing....
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...
14._I have not eaten thereof in my mourning _(_tristitia_) It is clear that the sacred offerings are here spoken of; but the question is, what is meant by eating in mourning? This is the exposition re...
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...
I HAVE NOT EATEN THEREOF IN MY MOURNING,.... When in grief and sorrow on account of any afflictive circumstance, for these were to be eaten with joy, Deuteronomy 16:11; and especially of the loss of r...
I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away [ought] thereof for [any] unclean [use], nor given [ought] thereof for the dead: [but] I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my G...
_I have not eaten thereof in my mourning_ This is thought by Spencer to have respect to some idolatrous custom then in use: such as that of the Egyptians, who, when they offered the first-fruits of th...
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...
I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, namely, while engaged in mourning for some dead person, for during that time the Israelite was Levitically unclean, NEITHER HAVE I TAKEN AWAY AUGHT THEREOF FOR...
THE CONFESSION AND PRAYER WITH TITHES...
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...
12-15 How should the earth yield its increase, or, if it does, what comfort can we take in it, unless therewith our God gives us his blessing? All this represented the covenant relation between a reco...
IN MY MOURNING, i.e. either, 1. In my funeral solemnities for the dead. But this falls in with the last branch. Or, 2. In my distress or poverty, or upon pretence of my own want, in which case men a...
"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 26:14 eaten H398 (H8804) mourning H205 removed H1197 (H8765) unclean H2931 given H5414 (H8804) d
SPECIAL TITHING IN THE THIRD YEAR (DEUTERONOMY 26:12). Here they solemnly declare ‘before Yahweh their God' that they have fulfilled their obligations with regard to the third year tithe. Analysis i...
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. ⇐...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 26:14 OFFERED... TO THE DEAD describes a forbidden pagan practice. ⇐...
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...
Deuteronomy 16:11; Ezekiel 24:17; Hosea 9:4; Leviticus 21:1;...
In my mourning — In sorrow, or grieving that I was to give away so much of my profits to the poor, but I have chearfully eaten and feasted with them, as I was obliged to do. Unclean use — For any comm...