Deuteronomy 14:29

_AT THE END OF THREE YEARS THOU SHALT BRING FORTH ALL THE TITHE OF THINE INCREASE THE SAME YEAR, AND SHALT LAY IT UP WITHIN THY GATES:_ At the end of three years ... the Levite ... shall come ... The Levites having no inheritance like the other tribes, the Israelites were not to forget them, but honestly to tithe their increase. Besides the tenth of all the land produce, they had 48 cities, with the surrounding grounds, the best of the land," and a certain proportion of the sacrifices as their allotted perquisites. They had therefore, if not an affluent, yet a comfortable and independent, fund for their support....

22-29 A second portion from the produce of their land was required. The whole appointment evidently was against the covetousness, distrust, and selfishness of the human heart. It promoted friendliness, liberality, and cheerfulness, and raised a fund for the relief of the poor. They were taught that their worldly portion was most comfortably enjoyed, when shared with their brethren who were in want. If we thus serve God, and do good with what we have, it is promised that the Lord our God will bless us in all the works of our land. The blessing of God is all to our outward prosperity; and without that blessing, the work of our hands will bring nothing to pass. The blessing descends upon the working hand. Expect not that God should bless thee in thy idleness and love of ease. And it descends upon the giving hand. He who thus scatters, certainly increases; and to be free and generous in the...

Verse Deuteronomy 14:29. _AND THE LEVITE (BECAUSE HE HATH NO PART NOR_ _INHERITANCE_] And hence much of his support depended on the mere freewill-offerings of the people. God chose to make his ministers thus dependent on the people, that they might be induced (among other motives) to labour for their spiritual profiting, that the people, thus blessed under their ministry, might feel it their duty and privilege to support and render them comfortable....

Compare the marginal references. The tithe thus directed in the third year to be dispensed in charity at home, was not paid in addition to that in other years bestowed on the sacred meals, but was substituted for it. The three years would count from the sabbatical year (see the next chapter), in which year there would of course be neither payment of tithe nor celebration of the feasts at the sanctuary. In the third year and sixth year of the septennial cycle the feasts would be superseded by the private hospitality enjoined in these verses....

EXPOSITION HEATHEN CUSTOMS OF MOURNING TO BE AVOIDED. NO ABOMINABLE THING TO BE EATEN. MEATS CLEAN AND UNCLEAN. TITHES. DEUTERONOMY 14:1 Israel, as the people of God, chosen by him to be his children by adoption, must not only abstain from idolatry, but also avoid all heathenish usages and practices, such as those connected with mourning for the dead, and those pertaining to the use of food. DEUTERONOMY 14:1 Ye a

AND THE LEVITE, BECAUSE HE HATH NO PART NOR INHERITANCE WITH THEE,.... Shall come and take the first tithe, according to Jarchi; but though this he was to do, yet is not what is intended here, but he was to partake of the second tithe, or what was in the room of it, the poor's tithe, with whom he is here joined: AND THE STRANGER, AND THE FATHERLESS, AND THE WIDOW, WHICH ARE WITHIN THY GATES, SHALL COME; and take the second tithe, as the above writer rightly interprets it, and which he says is the poor's of this year; see Deuteronomy 12:12, AND SHALL EAT AND BE SATISFIED; make a plentiful meal, eat freely as at a feast; and, as the same writer observes, they were not obliged to eat it at Jerusalem, according to the way they were bound to eat the second tithe of the two years, that is, the two preceding this: that the Lord thy Go

10. THE CHILDREN OF GOD AND THEIR SEPARATION CHAPTER 14 _ 1. The declaration of relationship: A holy people (Deuteronomy 14:1)_ 2. Their food as a separated people (Deuteronomy 14:3) 3. Concerning tithes (Deuteronomy 14:22) Ye are the children of the Lord your God. Because God had chosen them to be a peculiar people unto Himself, above all the other nations, they were to be an holy people. To them belongeth still “the adoption” (Romans 9:4). God called Israel His firstborn son and that nation holds that place, in the divine purpose, among the nations. Sonship, in the New Testamen

Regulations respecting tithes. See Leviticus 27:30 * and Numbers 18:21 * (both P). The older codes are silent about tithes, but _cf._ Genesis 28:22 (E). The clause concerning firstlings in Deuteronomy 14:23 is an interpolation. They were given whole, not tithed, and the law as to them occurs in Deuteronomy 15:19 *. The tithing of cattle and sheep is mentioned in Leviticus 27:32 (P) only. According to...

_the Levite_ because he is landless and through the abolition of the local shrines has been deprived of his means of subsistence, and of _the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow_ for they also are landless. D frequently emphasises the duty of caring for them, Deuteronomy 16:11; Deuteronomy 16:14; Deuteronomy 24:17; Deuteronomy 24:19 ff., Deuteronomy 26:12 f. _shall eat and be satisfied_ Here the words _before Jehovah_and _rejoice_, used in connection with the eating of tithes

THOUGHT QUESTIONS 14:22-29 258. What would happen to ten-percent of the see? To whom was it given? What use was made of it? 259. How could the tithe be given to the Lord if it was eaten by the worshipper? 260. Why would the exception of Deuteronomy 14:24-25 help some of the twelve tribes? 261. Does Deuteronomy 14:26 give permission for the drinking of strong drink? Discuss. 262. Explain the special provision made in Deuteronomy 14:28-29. AMPLIFIED TRANSLATION 14:22-29 22 You shall surely tithe all the yield of your seed, produced by your field each year. 23 And you shall eat before the Lord your God, in the plac