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Deuteronomy 15:11

For the poor shall never cease, etc.] See introd. note.

to thy needy, and to thy poor Two of the three Hebrew synonyms for poor. The first is a passive form, forced, afflicted, then wretched, whether under persecution, poverty or exile, arid so also subdued, mild, meek. The second is the Lat. egenus, needy.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 15:11. _FOR THE POOR SHALL NEVER CEASE OUT OF THE LAND_] To this passage our Lord appears to allude Mark 14:7: _For ye have the poor with you always_. God leaves these in mercy amon...

  • 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

    NEVER CEASE. See note on Deuteronomy 15:4....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 208 THE DUTY OF CHARITY ENFORCED Deuteronomy 15:7. If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren, within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shal...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 11. _FOR THE POOR SHALL NEVER CEASE OUT OF THE LAND_— i.e. There shall be always some indigent persons among you who shall stand in need of your charitable relief. The Jerusalem Targum understa...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    (3) THE POOR (Deuteronomy 15:7-11) 7 If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brethren, within any of thy gates in thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor...

  • 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

    _IF THERE BE AMONG YOU A POOR MAN OF ONE OF THY BRETHREN WITHIN ANY OF THY GATES IN THY LAND WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE, THOU SHALT NOT HARDEN THINE HEART, NOR SHUT THINE HAND FROM THY POOR BR...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    15:11 poor (e-27) Or 'afflicted' as Psalms 10:12 ....

  • 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

    FOR THE POOR SHALL NEVER CEASE. — There is no contradiction between this verse and Deuteronomy 15:4 above. There will always be some men falling into poverty; but it is our business to see that they d...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֛י לֹא ־יֶחְדַּ֥ל אֶבְיֹ֖ון מִ קֶּ֣רֶב הָ

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (c) For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt (d) open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land. (c) To try your...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Needy. Hebrew expresses the order to be observed in giving alms, "open thy hand wide (give with profusion) to thy brother, (or relations,) to thy needy, (in extreme want,) and to thy poor in the land...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader! look around thee, and behold this day how GOD'S word is verified. Blessed JESUS! give me grace to keep in view thine unequalled poverty, and to consider the path of honest humble poverty as di...

  • 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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THY POOR BROTHER_ ‘If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine h...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    11._For the poor shall never cease out of the land_. The notion (147) of those is far fetched who suppose that there would be always poor men among them, because they would not keep the law, and conse...

  • 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

    FOR THE POOR SHALL NEVER CEASE OUT OF THE LAND,.... There would be always such objects to exercise their charity and beneficence towards, John 12:8, which is no contradiction to Deuteronomy 15:4 for h...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land._ Ver. 11. _For the poo...

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

    _The poor shall never cease_ God, by his providence, will so order it, partly for the punishment of your disobedience, and partly for the trial and exercise of your obedience to him, and charity to yo...

  • 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

    For the poor shall never cease out of the land, Matthew 26:11; THEREFORE I COMMAND THEE, SAYING, THOU SHALT OPEN THINE HAND WIDE UNTO THY BROTHER, TO THY POOR, AND TO THY NEEDY IN THY LAND. Note 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

    THE POOR SHALL NEVER CEASE OUT OF THE LAND; God by his providence will so order it, partly for the punishment of your disobedience, and partly for the trial and exercise of your obedience to me, and c...

  • 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 15:11 poor H34 cease H2308 (H8799) from H7130 land H776 command H6680 (H8764) saying H559 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE POVERTY-STRICKEN DEBTOR IS NOT TO BE DESPISED (DEUTERONOMY 15:7). Having laid down the law for the relief of debtors the question of those who might seek to avoid it is now raised. They are not t...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Deuteronomy 15:7 , DEUTERONOMY 15:11 I. "God has made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell upon the face of the whole earth." This is the announcement of a grand fact, which has never yet bee...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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 b...

  • 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

    _Save when there shall be no poor among you._ RURAL POVERTY These two sentences (Deuteronomy 15:4; Deuteronomy 11:1) seem, at first sight, to contradict one another. There are three ways of reading 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 15:9 If the sabbatical year is close, loans are less likely to be repaid, but the one asked to lend should have no such UNWORTHY THOUGHT in his HEART. Verse...

  • 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

    1 John 3:16; 2 Corinthians 8:2; Acts 11:28; Acts 2:45; Acts 4:32;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The poor shall never cease — God by his providence will so order it, partly for the punishment of your disobedience, and partly for the trial and exercise of your obedience to him and charity to your...

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