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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 26:15

Look down from thy holy habitation Though God was pleased to dwell among them, by a glorious symbol of his presence, yet Moses well knew, and hereby teaches the Israelites to acknowledge, that he dwelt in more transcendent glory in the heavens, which all nations have believed to be the throne and peculiar habitation of the omnipresent God. And bless thy people Thus, after that solemn profession of their obedience to God's commands, they were taught to pray for God's blessing; whereby they were instructed how vain and ineffectual the prayers of unrighteous or disobedient persons are.

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See also Deuteronomy 26:15 in other biblical comments:

  • 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

    HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5. AS. according as. A LAND. Heb _erez_, the land of Canaan...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Look down_, etc.] Cp. Isaiah 63:15; _thy holy habitation_, Jeremiah 25:30; Zechariah 2:13. _and bless_, etc.] with such care and gifts as are described in...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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

  • 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

    _LOOK DOWN FROM THY HOLY HABITATION, FROM HEAVEN, AND BLESS THY PEOPLE ISRAEL, AND THE LAND WHICH THOU HAST GIVEN US, AS THOU SWAREST UNTO OUR FATHERS, A LAND THAT FLOWETH WITH MILK AND HONEY._ Look...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    26:15 land (a-17) Or 'ground,' 'soil,' as ver. 2. land (b-31) Or 'a country,' as ch. 11.12....

  • 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

    הַשְׁקִיפָה֩ מִ מְּעֹ֨ון קָדְשְׁךָ֜ מִן ־הַ ש

  • 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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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....

  • 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

    15._Look down from thy holy habitation. _Whilst they are commanded to offer their prayers and supplications, that God would bless the land, on this condition, that they had not defiled themselves by a...

  • 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

    LOOK DOWN FROM THY HOLY HABITATION, FROM HEAVEN,.... This is a prayer of the person that makes the above declaration annexed to it, desiring that God would vouchsafe to look with an eye of love, compl...

  • 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

    THE CONFESSION AND PRAYER WITH TITHES...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Look down from Thy holy habitation, from heaven, which was looked upon as the throne of Jehovah, Isaiah 63:15; Zechariah 2:13, AND BLESS THY PEOPLE ISRAEL, AND THE LAND WHICH THOU HAST GIVEN US, AS TH...

  • 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

    After that solemn profession of their obedience to God's commands, they are taught to pray for God's blessing upon their land, whereby they are instructed how vain and ineffectual the prayers of unrig...

  • 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 26:15 down H8259 (H8685) holy H6944 habitation H4583 heaven H8064 bless H1288 (H8761) people H5971

  • 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 26:15 LOOK DOWN FROM YOUR HOLY HABITATION. God dwells in HEAVEN, though on earth his name and presence also dwell in the central place of worship. See...

  • 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

    1 Kings 8:27; 1 Kings 8:43; Acts 7:49; Deuteronomy 26:7; Hebrews 6:13

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Look down — After that solemn profession of their obedience to God's commands, they are taught to pray for God's blessing whereby they are instructed how vain and ineffectual the prayers of unrighteou...

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