申命記 26:5-9 JCB

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 26:1-11

The presentation of the first fruits. This interesting ceremony: 1. Reminded the individual that the land and its fruits were God's. 2. Required from him a devout acknowledgment of the fact, with a gift in which the acknowledgment was suitably embodied. 3. Threw him back on the recollection of God's former mercies to his nation. 4. Secured a confession and rehearsal of these from his own lips. It served: 1. To create and deepen religious feeling. 2. To quicken... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 26:1-11

Commemorations of national deliverance. An instinct in man impels him to dwell with pleasure on his national beginnings and growth; and, in cases where that beginning sprang out from a specific event, that event has been the subject of public commemoration year by year. Of this Rome is a conspicuous instance. But the Jews were designed to be eminently a religious people; hence this commemoration was to be a simple act of piety—the presentation of firstfruits. I. MAN IS THE ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 26:1-11

The dedication of the firstfruits. A beautiful religious service is here associated with the dedication of the firstfruits. It was to be an act of worship. There was to be the appearance before the priest, the acknowledgment of God's great bounty to the forefathers as well as to the worshipper himself, the presentation of the firstfruits as a return of God's gifts to him, the setting of the basket before God, and the rejoicing in the Divine presence. All this is surely typical. I. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 26:5

A Syrian ready to perish was my father. The reference is to Jacob, the stem-father of the twelve tribes, tie is here called a Syrian, or Aramaean, because of his long residence in Mesopotamia (Genesis 29-31.), whence Abraham had originally come ( Genesis 11:31 ), and because there the family of which he was the head was founded. The translation "ready to perish" fairly represents the Hebrew; the verb אָבַד means not merely to stray or wander, but also to lose one's self, to perish, to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 26:6

The Egyptians evil entreated us (cf. Exodus 1:11-22 ; Exodus 2:23 , etc.). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 26:8

(Cf. Deuteronomy 4:34 .) read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 26:5

A Syrian ready to perish was my father - The reference is shown by the context to be to Jacob, as the ancestor in whom particularly the family of Abraham began to develop into a nation (compare Isaiah 43:22, Isaiah 43:28, etc.). Jacob is called a Syrian (literally, Aramaean), not only because of his own long residence in Syria with Laban Gen. 29–31, as our Lord was called a Nazarene because of his residence at Nazareth Matthew 2:23, but because he there married and had his children (compare... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 26:5

Deuteronomy 26:5. A Syrian was my father That is, Jacob; for though born in Canaan, he was a Syrian by descent, his mother Rebecca, and his grandfather Abraham, being both of Chaldea or Mesopotamia, which in Scripture is comprehended under the name of Syria. His wives and children, by their mothers’ side, and his relations, were Syrians, and he himself had lived twenty years in Syria with Laban. Ready to perish Through want and poverty, or through the rage of his brother Esau, and the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 26:1-19

Declarations by Israel and by God (26:1-19)The first harvest season after the Israelites settled in Canaan would be of particular importance, bringing to a climax the fulfilment of God’s promise to Israel of a permanent homeland (26:1-4). The harvest firstfruits offered to God on this occasion would have special significance as the people recalled their humble beginnings, their slavery in Egypt, and the miraculous release that allowed them to possess the land God had prepared for them... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 26:5

speak and say. Note the idiom, generally rendered "answer and say", where the first verb must always be rendered according to the context. Here "confess and say". Syrian = an Aramaean: i.e. Jacob. ready to perish = perishing. Genesis 42:1 , Genesis 42:2 . mighty. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Targum of Onkelos, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel and Septuagint, read "and mighty". Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton ( App-6 ), thus produced. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 26:1-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 26:1-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 26:1-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 26:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 26:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 26:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 26:5

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 26:5

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 26:1-19

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 26:5

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