Exodus 23:10 NIV

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 23:10-11

Exodus 23:10-11. The institution of the sabbatical year was designed, 1st, To show what a plentiful land that was into which God was bringing them, that so numerous a people could have rich maintenance out of the products of so small a country, without foreign trade, and yet could spare the increase of every seventh year. 2d, To teach them confidence in his care and bounty while they did their duty; that as the sixth day’s manna served for two days’ meat, so the sixth year’s increase should... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:1-19

Miscellaneous matters (22:18-23:19)Israelite law prohibited pagan customs and religious practices that threatened the nation’s spiritual life. The penalty for such offences was usually death (18-20). The Israelite people were to remember their own bitter experiences in Egypt and show mercy to the disadvantaged. The law against charging interest on a loan was designed to encourage the rich to help the poor instead of exploiting them (21-27). (For the contrast between lending that is greedy... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 23:10

fruits . Hebrew harvest. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 23:10-13

"And six years shalt thou sow thy land, and shalt gather in the increase thereof; but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner shalt thou deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard. Six days shalt thou do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy hand-maid, and the sojourner may be refreshed. And in all... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 23:10-11

Exodus 23:10-11. And six years— See Leviticus 25:0 for the particulars respecting the sabbatical year: see also Deuteronomy 31:10; Deuteronomy 31:30. Note: 1. Every seventh year the land was neither plowed nor sown, nor their vineyards or olive-yards gathered: the poor had a right to the increase. A tender concern for the needy will still be in every true Israelite. 2. The sabbath-day, as before, is strictly to be observed, Exodus 23:12. Exodus 23:3. A caution is given against the very mention... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 23:10

10. six years thou shalt sow thy land—intermitting the cultivation of the land every seventh year. But it appears that even then there was a spontaneous produce which the poor were permitted freely to gather for their use, and the beasts driven out fed on the remainder, the owners of fields not being allowed to reap or collect the fruits of the vineyard or oliveyard during the course of this sabbatical year. This was a regulation subservient to many excellent purposes; for, besides inculcating... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 23:1-12

The fundamental rights of the Israelites 21:1-23:12It is very important to note that various law codes already existed in the ancient Near East before the giving of the Mosaic Covenant. These included laws in the Akkadian civilization located in Mesopotamia in the twentieth century B.C. (e.g., the Laws of Esnunna). [Note: Pritchard, pp. 161-63.] There were also the laws in the Sumerian civilization in the nineteenth century (e.g., the Code of Lipit-Istar). [Note: Ibid., pp. 159-61.] Moreover... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 23:10-11

The people were to observe the sabbatical year (cf. Leviticus 25:2-7; Deuteronomy 15:1-3). The Israelites’ failure to observe 70 sabbatical years resulted in God removing Israel from the Promised Land to Babylon for 70 years to give the land its rest (2 Chronicles 36:20-21). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 23:10-12

Rest 23:10-12"Till now the text dealt with positive and negative precepts that are valid at all times; now we have a series of precepts that are to be observed at given times, commandments that apply to seasons that are specifically dedicated to the service of the Lord, and are intended to remind the Israelites of the covenant that the Lord made with them, and of the duty resting upon them to be faithful to this covenant." [Note: Cassuto, p. 300.] read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 23:1-33

The Book of the Covenant (concluded)1-19. Miscellaneous Laws.1. Raise] RV ’take up,’ i.e. give ear to. This is an extension of the ninth commandment: cp. the Arabic proverb, ’In wickedness the listener is the ally of the speaker.’2. To decline after] RV ’to turn aside after.’ 3. Countenance] Give undue favour to. As judgment is to be without fear (Exodus 23:2), so is it to be without favour, whether of rich or poor: cp. Exodus 23:6.4, 5. Thine enemy’s ox] The Mosaic Law inculcates the duty of... read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 23:10-11

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:1-19

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 23:10

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 23:10-13

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 23:10-11

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 23:10

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 23:1-12

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 23:10-11

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 23:10-12

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 23:1-33

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