TSK - DEUTERONOMY 15

  1  The seventh year a year of release for the poor.
 7  It must be no let of lending or giving.
12  An Hebrew servant, except he will not depart, must in the
    seventh year go forth free and well furnished.
19  All firstling males of the cattle are to be sanctified unto
    the Lord.


VERSE 1 
   * De 31:10 Ex 21:2; 23:10,11 Le 25:2-4 Isa 61:1-3 Jer 36:8-18
   * Lu 4:18,19


VERSE 2 
 - creditor that lendeth.  Heb. master of the lending of his
  hand.  exact it.
   * Ne 5:7-11 Isa 58:3 Am 8:4-6 Mt 6:12,14,15; 18:25-35 Lu 6:34-38
   * Lu 7:42 Jas 13 2:13

VERSE 3
    * De 23:20 Ex 22:25 Mt 17:25,26 Joh 8:35 1Co 6:6,7 Ga 6:10


VERSE 4 
 - Save, etc.  or, To the end that there be no poor among you.
  Houbigant follows this marginal reading, to which he joins the
  end of the third verse, considering it as explanatory of the
  law; as if he had said, "Thou shalt not exact the debt that is
  due from thy brother, but thy hand shall release him, for this
  reason, that there may be no poor among you through your
  severity."  He justly contends that the phrase {ephes kee,}
  can here only mean, "to the end that," being equivalent to the
  French {afin que.}

- greatly bless.  See on ch.
   * De 14:29; 28:1-8,11 Pr 11:24,25; 14:21; 28:27 Isa 58:10,11


VERSE 5 
 - See on ch.
   * De 4:9; 11:13-15; 28:1-15 Le 26:3-14 Jos 1:7 Ps 19:11 Isa 1:19,20
   * Php 1:27


VERSE 6 
 - thou shalt lend.
   * De 28:12,44 Ps 37:21,26; 112:5 Pr 22:7 Lu 6:35
- thou shalt reign.
   * De 28:13 1Ki 4:21,24 2Ch 9:26 Ezr 4:20 Ne 9:27


VERSE 7 
 - there be.
  Lest the preceding law might render the Israelites cautious in
  lending to the poor, Moses here warns them against being led
  by so mean a principle; but to lend liberally, and God would
  reward them.

- thou shalt.
   * :9 Pr 21:13 Mt 18:30 Jas 15 2:15,16 1Jo 3:16,17

VERSE 8


VERSE 9 
 - Beware.
   * Pr 4:23 Jer 17:10 Mt 15:19 Mr 7:21,22 Ro 7:8,9 Jas 5 4:5
- thought, etc.  Heb. word with thine heart of Belial.  thine
  eye.
   * De 28:54-56 Pr 23:6; 24:9; 28:22 Mt 20:15 Jas 9 5:9 1Pe 4:9
- he cry.
   * De 24:15 Ex 3:7; 22:23 Job 34:28 Ps 9:12 Pr 21:13 Jas 4 5:4
- sin unto thee.
   * Mt 25:41-45 Jas 17 4:17 1Jo 3:15-17


VERSE 10 
 - thine heart.
   * Mt 25:40 Ac 20:35 Ro 12:8 2Co 9:5-7 1Ti 6:18,19 1Pe 4:11
- because.  See on ver.
   * :4; 14:19,29; 24:19 Ps 41:1,2 Pr 11:24,25; 22:9 Isa 32:8; 58:10
   * 2Co 9:8-11 Php 4:18,19 Heb 13:16


VERSE 11 
 - the poor.
  Although Moses, by the statutes relative to the division of
  the land, and inheritance, and the inalienable nature of it,
  had studied to prevent any Israelite from being born poor, yet
  he exhorts them to the exercise of the tenderest compassion
  and most benevolent actions; and not to refuse assistance to
  the decayed Israelite, though the sabbatical year drew nigh.

   * Pr 22:2 Mt 26:11 Mr 14:7 Joh 12:8
- Thou shalt.  See on ver.
   * :8 Mt 5:42 Lu 12:33 Ac 2:45; 4:32-35; 11:28-30 2Co 8:2-9
   * 1Jo 3:16-18


VERSE 12 
 - See on ver.
   * :1 Ex 21:2-6 Le 25:39-41 Jer 34:14 Joh 8:35,36


VERSE 13
   This is a most humane and merciful addition to the law in
  Ex 21:2-11; enforced upon the Israelites by the consideration
  of their Egyptian bondage.  As a faithful servant has made no
  property for himself while honestly serving his master, so
  now, when he quits his service, he has nothing to begin the
  world with except what the kindness of his master may bestow
  upon him as a remuneration for his zeal and fidelity.  Though
  what was to be bestowed upon servants is not fixed, yet they
  were to be liberally supplied.  (ver. 14.)

   * Ge 31:42 Ex 3:21 Le 25:42-44 Pr 3:27,28 Jer 22:13 Mal 3:5
   * Col 4:1


VERSE 14 
 - the Lord.
   * Ne 8:10 Ps 68:10 Pr 10:22 Ac 20:35 1Co 16:2

VERSE 15
    * De 5:14,15; 16:12 Ex 20:2 Isa 51:1 Mt 6:14,15; 18:32,33 Eph 1:7
   * Eph 2:12; 4:32; 5:1,2 Tit 2:14 1Jo 3:16; 4:9-11


VERSE 16 
 - See on
   * Ex 21:5,6 Ps 40:6,8


VERSE 17 
 - for ever.
   * Le 25:39-42 1Sa 1:22


VERSE 18 
 - shall not.
   * :10
- a double.
   * Isa 16:14; 21:16 Lu 17:7,8


VERSE 19 
 - the firstling.
   * Ex 13:2,12; 34:19 Le 27:26 Nu 3:13; 18:17 Ro 8:29 Heb 12:23
- thou shalt do.
   * De 12:5-7,17; 14:23; 16:11,14 Nu 18:15


VERSE 20 
 - See on ch.
   * De 12:5-7,17

VERSE 21
    * De 17:1 Le 22:20,24 Mal 1:7,8


VERSE 22 
 - the unclean.
   * De 12:15,21,22
- the roe-buck.
  {Tzevee,} in Arabic {zaby,} Chaldee and Syriac {tavya,}
  denotes the gazelle or antelope, so called from its stately
  beauty, as the word imports.  In size it is smaller than the
  roe, of an elegant form, and it motions are light and
  graceful.  It bounds seemingly without effort, and runs with
  such swiftness that few creatures can exceed it.  (2Sa 2:18.)
  Its fine eyes are so much celebrated as even to become a
  proverb; and its flesh is much esteemed for food among eastern
  nations, having a sweet, musky taste, which is highly
  agreeable to their palates.  (1Ki 4:23.)  If to these
  circumstances we add, that they are gregarious, and common all
  over the East, whereas the roe is either not known at all, or
  else very rare in these countries, little doubt can remain
  that the gazelle and not the roe is intended by the original
  word.


VERSE 23 
 - See on ch.
   * De 12:16,23 Le 7:26 1Sa 14:32 Eze 33:25



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