John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 26:11
And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing ,.... In all the blessings of goodness and mercies of life, which God in his kind providence had favoured them with: which the Lord thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house ; to them and their families, by which they were comfortably provided for: thou and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you ; by which it seems that not only a basket of firstfruits was brought and presented to the Lord, which is the perquisite of the... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 26:1-11
Here is, I. A good work ordered to be done, and that is the presenting of a basket of their first-fruits to God every year, Deut. 26:1, 2. Besides the sheaf of first-fruits, which was offered for the whole land, on the morrow after the passover (Lev. 23:10), every man was to bring for himself a basket of first-fruits at the feast of pentecost, when the harvest was ended, which is therefore called the feast of first-fruits (Exod. 34:22), and is said to be kept with a tribute of... read more