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Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 15:1-18

Deuteronomy 15:1-Job : . Three laws in the interest of the poor: the Sabbatical year, or year of release (p. 102, Exodus 21:2-1 Kings : *, Leviticus 25:39-2 Timothy : *). Deuteronomy 15:1-Joshua :. Every seventh year (probably the same year was observed throughout the country) a creditor’ s right to distrain for debt was suspended (not, as some say, permanently cancelled). Foreigners, however (not sojourners, see Deuteronomy 1:16 *) were deprived of this privilege ( Deuteronomy... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 15:10

Thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him, i.e. thou shalt give not only with an open hand, but with a willing and cheerful mind and heart, Romans 12:8; 2 Corinthians 9:9, without which thy very charity is uncharitable, and not accepted by God, who requires the heart in all his services. In all that thou puttest thine hand unto, i.e. in all thy works, as before, for the hand is the great instrument of action. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 15:11

The poor shall never cease out of the land; God by his providence will so order it, partly for the punishment of your disobedience, and partly for the trial and exercise of your obedience to me, and charity to your brother, both which are best discovered by your performance of costly duties. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Deuteronomy 15:1-23

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. During the last of the seven, i.e., Sabbatical year (Exodus 21:2; Exodus 28:11; Leviticus 25:4; Jeremiah 34:14). Release, let go, let lie applied to land (Exodus 33:11), and must be taken in the same sense here. “The command of the older legislation is here amplified. Not only is the land to have its... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 15:11

Deuteronomy 15:7-8 , Deuteronomy 15:11 I. "God has made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell upon the face of the whole earth." This is the announcement of a grand fact, which has never yet been successfully disproved. This relates man to man everywhere, makes all the world a neighbourhood, and founds upon universal affinity a universal claim. This general law, however, must be divided into minor modifications, or it will be practically useless. Hence all private affections are... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Deuteronomy 15:7-11

DISCOURSE: 208THE DUTY OF CHARITY ENFORCEDDeuteronomy 15:7-11. 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 brother: but thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth. Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 15:1-23

Chapter 15Chapter 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 seventh year; you're not to ask for it again except for a foreigner or a stranger. Then you can demand it from them. But of the children of Israel it had to be totally forgiven.Now, also if it were, say, the sixth year, the seventh year was coming up very soon and some guy says, "Oh, I'd... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 15:1-23

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 end of six years. The insolvent poor ought not to be kept forever in despair. The creditor knows the law. Deuteronomy 15:4 . Save when there shall be no poor among you. This reading seems to contradict the eleventh verse: for the poor shall never cease. The margin must therefore be the true... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Deuteronomy 15:4-11

Deuteronomy 15:4-11Save when there shall be no poor among you.Rural povertyThese two sentences (Deuteronomy 15:4; Deuteronomy 11:1-32) seem, at first sight, to contradict one another. There are three ways of reading the fourth verse. “Save when there shall be no poor among you,” says the text. “To the end that there be no poor,” reads the margin. Howbeit, there shall be no poor with thee, runs the Revised Version. The explanation may be briefly put thus: There would always be poor people among... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 15:10

Deu 15:10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto. Ver. 10. Thine heart shall not be grieved. ] See Trapp on " 2Co 9:7 " The Lord thy God shall bless thee. ] See Proverbs 19:17 ; and "Alms," ubi supra. read more

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