9<\/strong>. Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee<\/em> ] Hence the name of the Feast, Weeks, Shabu‘th, Deu 16:10<\/em><\/span><\/em> ; Deu 16:16<\/em><\/span><\/em>, also in J, Exo 34:22<\/span>. H, Lev 23:16<\/span>, prescribes fifty days<\/em> from the sabbath after the presentation before the Altar of the first sheaf of the harvest; hence the Hellenistic name Pentecost, ‘the fiftieth’ (day) or the day after the conclusion of the seven weeks. The name given by E, Exo 23:16<\/span>, Harvest<\/em>, implies that the harvest was by that time concluded. In the warmest parts of Palestine barley ripens in April, wheat later; but in colder districts the harvest is not finished for at least seven weeks more. The present writer has seen wheat reaped in auran as late as the second half of June.<\/p>\n from the time thou beginnest<\/em>, etc.] Lit. from the start of the sickle<\/em> (only here and Deu 23:25<\/span>) on the standing corn<\/em>, a variable date; so H, Lev 23:15<\/span> f., Lev_23: 50 days from the sabbath after the presentation of the first sheaf. It is significant that while D’s date starts from Maoth, he says nothing to date Weeks from the Passover: another indication that when the original code of D was drawn up the Passover and Maoth were not yet amalgamated. See introd. to Deu 16:1-8<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n 9 12. The Feast of Weeks<\/p>\n To be joyfully celebrated after seven weeks from the beginning of harvest, with free-will offering, by each Israelite, along with his household and the local Levites and other poor at the One Altar (Deu 16:9-11<\/span>). Whether Deu 16:12<\/em><\/span> is original is doubtful; see below. For corresponding laws in other codes see introd. to Deu 16:1-17<\/em><\/span>. This is the only feast not associated in the O. T. with a memorable event in Israel’s history. Later Judaism assigned to it the giving of the Law on Sinai.<\/p>\n Feast of Weeks; and Deu 16:13-17<\/span>, Feast of Tabernacles. Nothing is here added to the rules given in Leviticus and Numbers except the clauses so often recurring in Deuteronomy and so characteristic of it, which restrict the public celebration of the festivals to the sanctuary, and enjoin that the enjoyments of them should be extended to the Levites, widows, orphans, etc.<\/P> <\/p>\n Deu 16:9-12<\/span><\/p>\n Keep the feast of weeks.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Feast of Pentecost <\/strong><\/p>\n (a Harvest Thanksgiving sermon):–<\/p>\n Harvest home a national festival<\/strong><\/p>\n Harvest to the Jews was an event of great and general interest. It was the occasion of one of their grand national festivals. This feast was called by different names–the Feast of Weeks, the Feast of Harvest, and the Feast of First-fruits. From commencement to close, their harvest festivities included seven weeks.<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>That the gift should be felt to be valuable.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>A belief that the favour is benevolently bestowed.<\/p>\n 3. <\/strong>A consciousness that the favour is undeserved.<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>Where God gives liberally, He demands liberality.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>The liberality demanded is to be shown to the poor. God has planted the poor amongst all peoples, in order that the benevolence of the rich may have scope for development. (Homilist.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Rejoice before the Lord thy God<\/strong>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Thanksgiving Day<\/strong><\/p>\n Seven weeks; <\/B>of which see on Exo 34:22<\/span>; Lev 23:10<\/span>,15<\/span>. <\/P> To put the sickle to the corn, <\/B>i.e. to reap thy corn, thy barley, when the first-fruits were offered, Lev 23:10<\/span>,11<\/span>. <\/P> <\/p>\n 9-12. Seven weeks shalt thounumber<\/B>The feast of weeks, or a WEEKOF WEEKS: the feast of pentecost (see on Le23:10<\/span>; also see Exo 34:22<\/span>;Act 2:1<\/span>). As on the second day ofthe passover a sheaf of new barley, reaped on purpose, was offered,so on the second day of pentecost a sheaf of new wheat was presentedas first-fruits (Exo 23:16<\/span>;Num 28:26<\/span>), a freewill,spontaneous tribute of gratitude to God for His temporal bounties.This feast was instituted in memory of the giving of the law, thatspiritual food by which man’s soul is nourished (De8:3<\/span>).<\/P><\/p>\n Seven weeks then shalt thou number unto thee<\/strong>,…. And then another feast was to take place, called from hence the feast of weeks, and sometimes Pentecost, from its being the fiftieth day:<\/p>\n begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn<\/strong>; for the sheaf of the wave offering, as the first fruits of barley harvest, which was done on the morrow after the sabbath in the passover week, and from thence seven weeks or fifty days were reckoned, and the fiftieth day was the feast here ordered to be kept; so the Targum of Jonathan,<\/p>\n “after the reaping of the sheaf ye shall begin to number seven weeks;”<\/p>\n see Le 23:15<\/span>.<\/p>\n Verses 9-12:<\/strong><\/p>\n This text is a repetition of the regulations regarding the Feast of Weeks, or Pentecost, see Exo 23:16<\/span>; Lev 23:9-16<\/span>. It began seven weeks after the commencement of the corn (grain) harvest, in the month Sivan (June).<\/p>\n 9. Seven weeks shalt thou number. It must be observed that the Passover fell in a part of the year when the harvests were beginning to ripen; and consequently the first-fruits, of which I treated under the First Commandment, were then offered. Seven weeks afterwards they celebrated another feast-day, which was called Pentecost, i.e., the fiftieth, by the Greeks. There was just this number of days between the departure of the people and the publication of the Law. Another offering of first-fruits was then made, in which each one, according to his ability, and in proportion to the produce of the year, consecrated a gift to God of the harvested fruits. In order that they might be more ready and cheerful in their liberality, God’s blessing is set before them, as if Moses had commanded the people to testify their gratitude; since whatever springs from the earth, is the mere bounty of God Himself. <\/p>\n (2) PENTECOST (Deu. 16:9-12<\/span>)<\/p>\n 9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: from the time thou beginnest to put the sickle to the standing grain shalt thou begin to number seven weeks. 10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto Jehovah thy God with a tribute of a freewill-offering of thy hand, which thou shalt give, according as Jehovah thy God blesseth thee: 11 and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in the midst of thee, in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. 12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.<\/p>\n THOUGHT QUESTIONS 16:912<\/p>\n 280.<\/p>\n Please read Exo. 23:16<\/span>; Exo. 34:22<\/span>; Lev. 23:15-21<\/span>; Num. 28:26-31<\/span> and Deu. 26:1-11<\/span> to be able to understand this feast, and more especially the counting of time.<\/p>\n 281.<\/p>\n Why call this the feast of Pentecost?<\/p>\n 282.<\/p>\n Why was the purpose of this feast?<\/p>\n AMPLIFIED TRANSLATION 16:912<\/p>\n 9 You shall count seven weeks: beginning to number the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain. COMMENT 16:912<\/p>\n (More on this feast in Exo. 23:16<\/span>; Exo. 34:22<\/span>; Lev. 23:15-21<\/span>; Num. 28:26-31<\/span>, and Deu. 26:1-11<\/span>.)<\/p>\n This feast has several names: also called Harvest and First-fruits. It marked the beginning of the harvest period, and is called Pentecost (fiftieth) because they were to number fifty days after the Passover for its observance (Lev. 23:15-16<\/span>; Act. 2:1<\/span>) which was on the first day of the week. Because seven weeks of seven days were numbered before it was observed during their month Sisan or Sivan, which answers to our May-June.<\/p>\n The giving of the first fruits, of course, honored God. In the old economy God was to be thought of firsthow much more in the new!<\/p>\n Deu. 16:9-12<\/span>. THE FEAST OF WEEKS, OR PENTECOST.<\/strong><\/p>\n See also Exo. 23:16<\/span>; Exo. 34:18-23<\/span>; Lev. 23:15-22<\/span>; Num. 28:26-31<\/span>. The feast itself is ordained in Exodus; the time <\/em>is given in Leviticus; and the sacrifices <\/em>in Numbers.<\/p>\n (9) From such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.<\/strong>The word for sickle only occurs here and in Deu. 23:25<\/span>. In Leviticus the weeks are ordered to be reckoned from the offering of the wave sheaf on the sixteenth day of the first month, two days after the Passover. This sheaf was of barley, the first ripe corn. A different view is sometimes taken of the word <\/em>Sabbath in Lev. 23:11<\/span>; but the view given here is correct according to the Talmud.<\/p>\n (10) A tribute.<\/strong>This word (missah<\/em>) <\/em>occurs nowhere else in the Bible. The marginal rendering, sufficiency, <\/em>is its Aramaic or Chaldan sense. The idea seems to be a proportionate <\/em>offering i.e., <\/em>a free will offering, proportioned to a mans means and prosperity. In Exo. 34:20<\/span>; Exo. 23:15<\/span>, we read, None shall appear before me empty. The command is made general for all the three feasts in Deu. 16:16-17<\/span> further on.<\/p>\n (11) Thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God.<\/strong>This aspect of the feast of weeks is specially insisted upon in Deuteronomy. Its relation to the poor appears also in the command connected with this feast in Lev. 23:22<\/span>, to leave the corners of the fields un-reaped for them.<\/p>\n THE FEAST OF WEEKS, OR PENTECOST.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n No additional legislation is given in reference to this festival besides what is in Leviticus and Numbers, except that its public celebration was to be at the central sanctuary, and its festivities were to be participated in by the servants, the Levites, the foreigners, the widows, and the fatherless.<\/p>\n 9<\/strong>. <\/strong> Seven weeks shalt thou number <\/strong> It was called the feast of weeks from the fact that a week of weeks intervened between the passover and this festival. It was called Pentecost from its occurring on the fiftieth day from the second day of the passover. It was eminently a feast of gladness over the firstfruits of the principal harvest. It differed from the other two great national festivals in being confined to a single day. It came to be viewed as a commemoration of the giving of the law. There is, however, no allusion to this in connexion with the rules for its observance, either in the Old Testament or in Josephus.<\/p>\n The Feast of Sevens or Harvest or Day of The Firstfruits ( Deu 16:9-12<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> ).<\/strong> <\/p>\n Deu 16:9<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n ‘<\/strong> Seven sevens shall you number to you, from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain shall you begin to number seven sevens.’ <\/p>\n This count of seven sevens was to commence the day after the sabbath when the sheaf of the waveoffering, the first result of the putting in of the sickle to the standing grain, was brought at the feast of unleavened bread (Lev 23:15<\/span>). The seven sevens (forty nine days) hopefully gave time for the harvesting of first the barley, and then the wheat, to be completed. Then after the markedly divine period (seven sevens) the feast could be held on the fiftieth day (thus in Greek ‘Pente-cost’). But if in some years it was not, all could be fitted in around the one day feast. The so-called Gezer calendar (10th century BC), possibly a schoolboy’s record of the agricultural months of the year in view of its rough nature, mentions a month for barley harvesting and a month for harvesting ‘everything else’. <\/p>\n Deu 16:10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n ‘<\/strong> And you shall keep the feast of sevens to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a freewill-offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as Yahweh your God blesses you,’ <\/p>\n No ritual detail is here given of the feast, but rather emphasis is laid on the bringing of tribute, a freewill offering which they were to bring according to how Yahweh had blessed them. He is concerned with the people’s part in it. The harvest having been mainly gathered they would know exactly how far they had been blessed, at least as far as the harvests were concerned. It was a gift of gratitude and an act of submission. But there is no detailed legislation concerning the feast. For information about the priest’s part in it see, for example, Num 28:26-31<\/span>; Lev 23:15-21<\/span>. <\/p>\n Deu 16:11<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n ‘<\/strong> And you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite that is within your gates, and the resident alien, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in the midst of you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.’ <\/p>\n It was anticipated that many in each household would come to this feast, and there before Yahweh they would rejoice together, along with the Levite, the resident alien who had chosen to dwell among them, and the bereft. These last were never to be forgotten in the celebrations. Levites were spread throughout the land for the purpose of their fulfilling of their responsibilities. Levitical priests on the other hand would live fairly conveniently to the Tabernacle. <\/p>\n None were to be excluded from the celebrations. It was a time for rejoicing by all, including bondsmen and bondswomen. And the fatherless and widows must be given full consideration. It was to be a compassionate society, not regulated from the top except by these Laws, but from the heart. <\/p>\n This one day feast of rejoicing would connect their minds back to the seventh day of Unleavened Bread which had been their previous holy-day of rejoicing and feasting and resting (Deu 16:8<\/span>). <\/p>\n Deu 16:12<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n ‘<\/strong> And you shall remember that you were a bondsman in Egypt, and you shall observe and do these statutes.’ <\/p>\n Remembering that they had been bondsmen in Egypt was to affect most of their thinking, but especially at their feasts and when dealing with their own bondsmen and with the poor. It would increase their rejoicing, and increase their consideration for their servants and for the needy. <\/p>\n The Feast of Weeks – <\/strong> The Feast of Weeks is also called:<\/p>\n 1. The Feast of Harvest in Exo 23:16<\/span>:<\/p>\n Exo 23:16<\/span>, “And the feast of harvest , the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.”<\/p>\n 2. Pentecost in Lev 23:15-21<\/span><\/p>\n Lev 23:16<\/span>, “Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days ; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.”<\/p>\n 3. The Day of Firstfruits in Num 28:26-31<\/span>:<\/p>\n Num 28:26<\/span>, “Also in the day of the firstfruits , when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:” <\/p>\n 4. Also:<\/p>\n Exo 34:22<\/span>, “And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest , and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/strong> Of Pentecost<\/p>\n v. 9. Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee,<\/strong> namely, from the sixteenth of Abib, or Nisan. Lev 23:15<\/span>; begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn,<\/strong> which was done on the sixteenth of Nisan, when the first-fruits of barley were offered to the Lord. <\/p>\n v. 10. And thou shalt keep the Feast of Weeks,<\/strong> or Pentecost, unto the Lord, thy God, with a tribute,<\/strong> or measure, of a free-will offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the lord, thy god,<\/strong> according as the Lord, thy God, hath blessed thee,<\/strong> the offering thus being as rich as the worshiper desired, in proportion to the blessing which he had received at the Lord’s hand. Exo 23:15<\/span>; Exo 34:20<\/span>; <\/p>\n v. 11. and thou shalt rejoice before the lord, thy god,<\/strong> Deu 12:7<\/span> to Deu 12:18<\/span>, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow that are among you, in the place which the Lord, thy God, hath chosen to place His name there. <\/strong> though only a one-day festival, Pentecost was celebrated with great joy, and the needs of the poor and forsaken were particularly stressed. <\/p>\n v. 12. and thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt; and thou shalt observe and do these statutes,<\/strong> always spurred on in these efforts by the remembrance of the wonderful redemption from the serfdom of Egypt. note that only that side of the festival is here touched upon which concerned the Israelite personally, the public sacrifices being described Numbers 28, 29. <\/p>\n Reader! is it not a subject of heartfelt satisfaction, and demanding a most grateful acknowledgment to our GOD, that as the observance of the Passover happened at the very time JESUS our Passover was offered upon the cross; so the feast of weeks, which represented the outpouring of the HOLY GHOST, happened at the very time when the blessed SPIRIT came down at first in an open display at the day of Pentecost, upon the minds of the Apostles and first followers of the LORD? Could anything more decidedly point out the wisdom of GOD in this ordination? See Luk 22:1<\/span> compared with Act 2:1<\/span> .<\/p>\n NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: Deu 16:9-12<\/p>\n 9You shall count seven weeks for yourself; you shall begin to count seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain. 10Then you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give just as the LORD your God blesses you; 11and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female servants and the Levite who is in your town, and the stranger and the orphan and the widow who are in your midst, in the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish His name. 12You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.<\/p>\n Deu 16:10 the Feast of Weeks This is also called (1) the Feast of Harvest in Exo 23:16) and (2) the Feast of First Fruits in Num 28:26. Later, it became Pentecost (rabbinically linked to the giving of the Law on Mt. Sinai), which means fifty days. It was the May-June harvest festival or the time of the wheat harvest. YHWH, not Ba’al, was the provider!<\/p>\n a freewill offering This allowed the people to bring an offering in accordance to how much the Lord had blessed each one (cf. Deu 16:17). This is a universal principle of giving (cf. 2 Corinthians 8-9).<\/p>\n Deu 16:11 YHWH wants everyone to know His past acts for Israel and His special care for those in need (cf. Deu 16:14; Deu 12:12; Deu 12:18-19; Deu 14:27; Deu 14:29; Deu 26:11-13).<\/p>\n Deu 16:12 You shall remember The theological reason for the Feast of Weeks (agricultural harvest) was Israel’s experience of slavery in Egypt.<\/p>\n corn = standing corn. <\/p>\n Deu 16:10, Deu 16:16, Exo 23:16, Exo 34:22, Lev 23:15, Lev 23:16, Num 28:26-30, 2Ch 8:13, Act 2:1, 1Co 16:8, Heb 2:1 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Lev 23:10 – and shall Num 22:17 – I will promote Joe 3:13 – the sickle Luk 6:1 – the second<\/p>\n Deu 16:9-10. Thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn To reap the first-fruits of the barley-harvest, the wave sheaf in particular, which was offered to the Lord on the sixteenth day of that month. Thou shalt keep the feast of weeks So called, because it was seven weeks after the bringing the sheaf at the passover, that is, fifty days, whence it was termed pentecost: see on Lev 23:16. It was also called the feast of first- fruits, Num 28:26. With a tribute of free-will-offering Over and besides the sacrifice for the day, and the two loaves and sacrifices with them, Num 28:27-31; Lev 23:17-20. God here directs that they should make some voluntary oblation.<\/p>\n 16:9 Seven weeks shalt thou {f} number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from [such time as] thou beginnest [to put] the sickle to the corn.<\/p>\n (f) Beginning the next morning after the Passover, Lev 23:15, Exo 13:4.<\/p>\n Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from [such time as] thou beginnest [to put] the sickle to the corn. 9. Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee ] Hence the name of the Feast, Weeks, Shabu‘th, Deu 16:10 ; Deu 16:16, also in J, Exo 34:22. H, Lev … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 16:9”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
I. <\/strong>The sacred character of the harvest. Indicated by time appointed for it–fiftieth day after Passover. As God hallowed the seventh day, so He hallowed the harvest fields of the world.<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>The great trouble God took to impress His people with the significance and meaning of common things. We walk along streets of gold, set with jewels, as though they were granite cubes. In the hand of Him who saw the kingdom of God everywhere and in everything, a grain of corn contained in its suggestiveness the deepest mysteries of the kingdom.<\/p>\n
III. <\/strong>This feast was a providential mirror in which to see again all the way in which the Lord their God had led them. Happy, thrice happy, is the man who, in the land of plenty, has a wilderness history on which to look back. There is nothing more sublime to the mariner in the haven of rest than the conflicts with the tempests in mid-ocean through which he passed.<\/p>\n
IV. <\/strong>This feast was a new bond of brotherhood forged in the fires of the ever-new and never-ceasing love of God. They were to call the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. Plenty in some natures petrifies, but this is not its legitimate effect. It should enlarge the heart, and broaden and deepen the sympathies of a man.<\/p>\n
V. <\/strong>This feast was to be a time of great moral and spiritual rectification on the part of the people. Repentance. Thanksgiving. (H. Simon, Ph. D.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I. <\/strong>The harvest home was a season for national gratitude. What they offered conferred no favour on God, it was His own; but it expressed the sense of their obligation and the depth of their gratitude. Three things are necessary to the very existence of gratitude towards the giver.<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>The harvest home is a season for national rejoicing. Where there is gratitude, there is joy, will be joy; gratitude is praise, and praise is heaven. The revelation of the Creator in the harvest field may well make human hearts exult. The God of the harvest there appears, mercifully considerate of the wants of His creatures; as a loving Father, with a bountiful hand, furnishing the table with abundant supplies for His children. There He appears punctual to the fulfilment of His promise. There He appears rewarding human labour.<\/p>\n
III. <\/strong>The harvest home is a season for national philanthropy (see Deu 24:19-21<\/span>).<\/p>\n
I.<\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>We may be thankful for this day of thanksgiving, on account of its happy religious influence. It is a day which, in all its appropriate exercises and enjoyments, presents to us our life as a blessing, and our God as a Benefactor; the seasons as a circle of elemental adaptations to our comfort, and the Regulator of the seasons as the Almighty Being who takes care for our varied good; the course of our rolling days, as a series of lessons and opportunities, and the Everlasting and Uncreated One as the Friend who crowns our days with His loving kindness. Thus a great deal is done every year, by a common and hearty expression of thankfulness, to break up, or at least to modify the alliance brought about by several causes in many minds, between religion and great strictness and gloominess. We find that it is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord; yea, a joyful and a pleasant thing it is to be thankful; for when we dwell on the causes of thankfulness, our gratitude must needs flow naturally and spontaneously out of our bosoms, and go to swell the general stream of praise and gladness which spreads over the land. And we find that it is not at all inconsistent with thankfulness to God for the bounties of His providence, that we should enjoy those bounties freely and honestly and smilingly.<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>We have reason to rejoice in our feast, on account of its happy domestic influence. The day is peculiarly a domestic day; a day for the reunion of families. The houses of the land are glad on this day.<\/p>\n
III. <\/strong>Our festival is to be honoured, on account of its happy political influence. If it exerts a happy influence on our religions sentiments and on our domestic relations, it cannot but act with a benign power on those relations which hold us all together in one community. A genial nationality is fostered by that mingling together of prayers, and common interests, and pleasant hospitalities, which occurs on this day. And so far as our nationality is brought about in this manner, there is nothing repulsive or exclusive in it. (F. W. P. Greenwood, D. D.<\/em>)<\/p>\nFuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
10 Then you shall keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God with a tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give to the Lord your God, as the Lord your God blesses you.
11 And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and daughter, your manservant and maidservant, and the Levite who is within your towns, the stranger or temporary resident, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place in which the Lord your God chooses to make His name [and His presence] dwell.
12 And you shall (earnestly) remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall be watchful and obey these statutes.<\/p>\nFuente: College Press Bible Study Textbook Series<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Everett’s Study Notes on the Holy Scriptures<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Popular Commentary on the Bible by Kretzmann<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: You Can Understand the Bible: Study Guide Commentary Series by Bob Utley<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"