Paul Kretzmann Commentary - Deuteronomy 26:12 - 26:15

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Paul Kretzmann Commentary - Deuteronomy 26:12 - 26:15


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The Confession and Prayer with Tithes

v. 12. When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing,
the reference here being to the triennial charity tithe, Deu_14:28-29, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow that they may eat within thy gates and be filled, have all they need to sustain their lives,

v. 13. then thou shalt say before the Lord, thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things,
those devoted to the Lord by His command, out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all Thy commandments which Thou hast commanded me; I have not transgressed Thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them, the very fact that this confession was required served as an inducement to keep the regulation concerning tithes;

v. 14. I have not eaten thereof in my mourning,
namely, while engaged in mourning for some dead person, for during that time the Israelite was Levitically unclean, neither have I taken away aught thereof for any unclean use, nor given aught thereof for the dead, namely, by sending it to some friend's house of mourning, for the use of the mourners, for the house where a dead person lay was regarded as unclean, and hence nothing consecrated to the Lord was permitted to enter; but I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord, my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.

v. 15. Look down from Thy holy habitation, from heaven,
which was looked upon as the throne of Jehovah, Isa_63:15; Zec_2:13, and bless Thy people Israel, and the land which Thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey. The believing Israelite included his entire nation in his prayer, just as the Lord taught us Christians to do in the prayer which He Himself formulated.