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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Deuteronomy 15:9,10

What a gracious provision hath the LORD of our salvation made, in guarding against evil! The heart is wicked, and David saith of himself that it was the transgression of the wicked which spake within his own heart, that showed him the fear of GOD was not before him. Psalms 36:1. And Paul confesseth for himself, that until the law came, in all its spirituality and power, as extending to the thoughts of the heart, he did not know sin, Romans 7:7. Reader! what are your views of this subject?

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See also Deuteronomy 15:9,10 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 15:9. _BEWARE THAT THERE BE NOT A THOUGHT IN THY WICKED_ _heart_] לבבך בליעל _lebabecha beliyaal_, thy _belial heart_, that is, thy good-for-nothing or unprofitable heart; Deuteronom...

  • 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

    THOUGHT. word (= thought expressed). WICKED HEART. heart of Belial. SIN. Hebrew. _chat'a_. See App-44....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    One of the most beautiful as it is one of the most characteristic passages in the laws of D: illustrating not only the humane spirit, and the practical thoughtfulness of this code, but its extension o...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Beware be on guard with respect to thyself_; see on Deuteronomy 4:9. _a base thought in thine heart_ Lit. _a word_or _thing in thine heart, baseness,_or _worthlessness: beliya-al_; see on Deuteronom...

  • 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._ 9. _AND THINE EYE BE EVIL AGAINST THY POOR BROTHER_— The _eye,_ say the Jews, is the index of the mind: so _an evil eye,_ when _giving_ is spoken of, signifies a covetous and hard-hearted dispo...

  • 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)

    15:9 thought (b-8) Lit. 'a thing of Belial.' in (c-48) Or 'on;' and so ch. 24.15....

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הִשָּׁ֣מֶר לְךָ֡ פֶּן ־יִהְיֶ֣ה דָבָר֩ עִם ־ל

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Eyes. Hebrew, "and thy eye be evil against," &c. This expression denotes one who is a prey to the base passions of avarice, jealousy, envy, &c., chap. xxviii. 54., and Matthew xx. 15. (Calmet) --- A...

  • 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...

  • 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

    BEWARE THAT THERE BE NOT A THOUGHT IN THY WICKED HEART,.... "Or, thy heart of Belial" f; thy worthless heart, and which is without a yoke not subjected to the law of God, as every carnal heart is; and...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cr...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Deu. 15:9. "Sin unto thee." Sin here is put for calamity, misery, or ruin, because that is the consequence of sin. Thus the word sin is often used in Scripture. So Deuteronomy 24:15; Deuteronomy 23:21...

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

    _Beware_ Suppress the first risings of such uncharitableness. _ And thine eye be evil_ Envious, unmerciful, unkind, as this phrase means, Proverbs 23:6; that is, thou grudge to relieve him. The opposi...

  • 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

    Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, that the worthless heart should speak to the person, SAYING, THE SEVENTH YEAR, THE YEAR OF RELEASE, IS AT HAND, in which the loan might not be r...

  • 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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THOUGHT: _ Heb._ word WICKED: _ Heb._ Belial...

  • 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

    BEWARE THAT THERE BE NOT A THOUGHT IN THY WICKED HEART; suppress the first risings and inward motions of such uncharitableness. THINE EYE BE EVIL, i.e. envious, unmerciful, unkind, as this phrase is u...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 3:15; 1 Peter 4:9; Deuteronomy 24:15; Deuteronomy 28:54;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Beware — Suppress the first risings of such uncharitableness. It be sin — That is, it be charged upon thee as a sin....

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