Chapter 26:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Numbers Joshua
Deuteronomy 26
Concise Complete
Confession in offering the first-fruits. (1-11) The
prayer after disposal of the third year's tithe. (12-15) The covenant between
God and the people. (16-19)
Verses 1-11
When God has made good his promises to us, he expects we should own it to the
honour of his faithfulness. And our creature comforts are doubly sweet, when we
see them flowing from the fountain of the promise. The person who offered his
first-fruits, must remember and own the mean origin of that nation, of which he
was a member. A Syrian ready to perish was my father. Jacob is here called a
Syrian. Their nation in its infancy sojourned in Egypt as strangers, they served
there as slaves. They were a poor, despised, oppressed people in Egypt; and
though become rich and great, had no reason to be proud, secure, or forgetful of
God. He must thankfully acknowledge God's great goodness to Israel. The comfort
we have in our own enjoyments, should lead us to be thankful for our share in
public peace and plenty; and with present mercies we should bless the Lord for
the former mercies we remember, and the further mercies we expect and hope for.
He must offer his basket of first-fruits. Whatever good thing God gives us, it
is his will that we make the most comfortable use we can of it, tracing the
streams to the Fountain of all consolation.
Verses
12-15 How should the earth yield its increase, or, if it does, what comfort
can we take in it, unless therewith our God gives us his blessing? All this
represented the covenant relation between a reconciled God and every true
believer, and the privileges and duties belonging to it. We must be watchful,
and show that according to the covenant of grace in Christ Jesus, the Lord is
our God, and we are his people, waiting in his appointed way for the performance
of his gracious promises.
Verses
16-19 Moses here enforces the precepts. They are God's laws, therefore thou
shalt do them, to that end were they given thee; do them, and dispute them not;
do them, and draw not back; do them, not carelessly and hypocritically, but with
thy heart and soul, thy whole heart and thy whole soul. We forswear ourselves,
and break the most sacred engagement, if, when we have taken the Lord to be our
God, we do not make conscience of obeying his
1 peter should be holy,
ephesians 1:4; purified a peculiar people, that we might not only do good works, but be zealous in them,
Tit 2:14. Holiness is true honour, and the only way to everlasting honour.
Chapter 26:
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| Geneva
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