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Deuteronomy 26:12-15

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 broken any of the relevant laws, and shall pray for a blessing on Israel. The apodosis of the sentence does not begin till Deuteronomy 26:13. For the contents see on Deuteronomy 14:28 f. and Add. Note there.

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See also Deuteronomy 26:12-15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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 poo...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 12. _THE THIRD YEAR, WHICH IS THE YEAR OF TITHING_— The third year is that in which the tenths were to be given to the poor, for _every year_ they were to give only to the Levites; but the _thi...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    (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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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, TH...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֣י תְכַלֶּ֞ה לַ֠ עְשֵׂר אֶת ־כָּל ־מַעְשַׂ

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Third. It has been remarked (chap. xiv. 28., and Leviticus xxvii. 30,) that the Jews gave two tithes every year, the second was for feasts at Jerusalem, or on the third year at home, if there was not...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    This law was pointed out before: Deuteronomy 14:28....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _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...

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

    _The third year, which was the year of tithing_ Hebrews _of that tithe;_ that is, of the tithe for the poor, commanded to be paid every third year, and instead of being carried to the place of the san...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, the reference here being to the triennial charity tithe, Deuteronomy 14:28, AND HAS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CONFESSION AND PRAYER WITH TITHES...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Of THE TITHES, SEE POOLE ON "DEUTERONOMY 14:28". _The year of tithing_, Heb. _the year of that tithe_; so called, either, 1. Because these tithes were gathered only in that year. Or rather, 2. Becaus...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 26:12 finished H3615 (H8762) aside H6237 (H8687) tithe H4643 increase H8393 third H7992 year H8141

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 26:1__ The final section of specific laws deals with the offering of firstfruits and tithes in the land. ⇐...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 26:12 IN THE THIRD YEAR, WHICH IS THE YEAR OF TITHING. See Deuteronomy 14:28 and note

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 12:17; Deuteronomy 14:22; Deuteronomy 16:14; Leviticus 27:30;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The year of tithing — Heb. the year of that tithe, so called, either because these tithes were gathered only in that year. Or rather, because then only they were so bestowed; and whereas these second...

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