Deuteronomy 26:12

_WHEN THOU HAST MADE AN END OF TITHING ALL THE TITHES OF THINE INCREASE THE THIRD YEAR, WHICH IS THE YEAR OF TITHING, AND HAST GIVEN IT UNTO THE LEVITE, THE STRANGER, THE FATHERLESS, AND THE WIDOW, THAT THEY MAY EAT WITHIN THY GATES, AND BE FILLED;_ When thou hast made an end of tithing ... the third year - (see the notes at Deuteronomy 12:17; Deuteronomy 14:22; Deuteronomy 14:28.) Among the Hebrews there were two tithings. The first was appropriated to the Levites (Numbers 18:21); the second, being the tenth of what remained, was brought to Jerusalem in kind; or if that was found inconvenien

12._When thou hast made an end of tithing. _In this passage Moses urgently stimulates them to offer the tithes willingly and abundantly, by placing God, as it were, before their eyes, as if they paid them into his hand: for a solemn protestation is enjoined, in which they condemn themselves as guilty before God, if they have not faithfully paid the tax imposed upon them; but they pray for grace and peace if they have honestly discharged their duty. For nothing can be more awakening to men, than when (219) God is introduced as the judge of any particular matter. This is the reason why he commands them to protest in God’s sight that they have obeyed His ordinance in the payment of their tithes. To separate, or “bring away out of the house,” is equivalent to their being conscious of no fraud in withholding from God what was His; and thus that they were guiltless of sacrilege, since they had...

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 reconciled God and every true believer, and the privileges and duties belonging to it. We must be watchful, and show that according to the covenant of grace in Christ Jesus, the Lord is our God, and we are his people, waiting in his appointed way for the performance of his gracious promises....

Verse Deuteronomy 26:12. _THE THIRD YEAR_, WHICH IS _THE YEAR OF TITHING_] This is supposed to mean the third year of the seventh or Sabbatical year, in which the _tenths_ were to be given to the poor. See the law, Deuteronomy 14:28. But from the letter in both these places it would appear that the tithe was for the Levites, and that this tithe was drawn only once in three years....

See the marginal reference to Numbers and note. A strict fulfillment of the onerous and complicated tithe obligations was a leading part of the righteousness of the Pharisees: compare Matthew 23:23....

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 place which the Lord should choose, and the place where religious service was to be rendered (Deuteronomy 12:1.), so here he follows up his address by a reference to the same. Of the gifts which had to be presented at the sanctuary there were two specially connected with the social and domestic life of the people, viz. the firstfruits and the second tithe. To these, by a natural transition from the preceding discourse—occupied as that is with injunctions regarding their social and domestic relations—Mos

WHEN THOU HAST MADE AN END OF TITHING ALL THE TITHES OF THINE INCREASE,.... Which, according to Maimonides k, is to be understood of the feast, in which all tithes are finished, which is the feast of the passover: THE THIRD YEAR, [WHICH IS] THE YEAR OF TITHING; that is, the third from every seventh, when the land lay fallow. Every year a tithe was paid to the Levites; and besides that a second tithe, which was carried to Jerusalem and eaten there; and every third year it was eaten at home, in their towns and cities in the country instead of it, with the Levite, poor and stranger, and was called the poor's tithe; and hence the Targum of Jonathan here calls this year the year of the poor's tithe, as was also the sixth year, and was reckoned not complete till the passover in the following year, as the Jewish writers l say: AND HATH GIVEN IT UNTO THE LEVITE, THE STRANGER, THE FATHERLESS, A...

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 people (Deuteronomy 26:16) The possession of the land is anticipated and a most beautiful ceremony is appointed for confession and worship in the place the Lord chose to place His Name there. The first of all the fruit of the land was to be gathered and put in a basket. This basket was presented unto the priest with the following words: “I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us

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, see Deuteronomy 12:6; Deuteronomy 14:22 f.* Deuteronomy 26:14. The offerer must declare that this triennial tithe was free from pollution through contact with a mourner (Hosea 9:4) or with an unclean person (Leviticus 22:1 f.), or through

TITHING ALL THE TITHES. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6). carefully and completely tithed thy increase. Compare Deuteronomy 14:28; Deuteronomy 14:29....