Deuteronomy 26:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments; ”

• Deuteronomy 26:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  A brief and earnest exhortation by way of conclusion to the second and longest discourse of the book. Deuteronomy 26:17 Thou hast avouched - literally, “made to say:” so also in the next ve...

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• Deuteronomy 26:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (o) And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that [thou] shouldest keep all his commandments; (o) Signifying that there is a mutual bond betw...

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• Deuteronomy 26:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Concluding exhortations to obedience based upon the covenant ( Deuteronomy 4:13 *) between Yahweh and Israel, with its mutual obligations. Deuteronomy 26:17 f . avouched: Heb. caused to say,...

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• Deuteronomy 26:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  peculiar . as. treasure. Compare Deuteronomy 7:6 , and see note on Exodus 19:5 .

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• Deuteronomy 26:18 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 218 COVENANTING WITH GOD EXPLAINED Deuteronomy 26:17-19 . Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments,...

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• Deuteronomy 26:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments; And the Lord hath avouched - Publicly declared, by t...

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• Deuteronomy 26:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Presentation of Firsteruits and of Tithes 1-11. Presentation of the Firstfruits, as a Thankoffering for the mercy of God in delivering the nation from Egypt and in giving them a good land and...

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• Deuteronomy 26:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Deuteronomy 26:16-19 . CLOSE OF THE EXHORTATION. (16) This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. — These words are not to be taken as part of the service described in the previous verses, b...

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• Deuteronomy 26:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  First-Fruits and Tithes Deuteronomy 26:1-19 The Israelites were God's tenants-at-will. The entire land and its produce were His; and they were required to acknowledge His ownership by the payme...

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• Deuteronomy 26:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Here we have the final movement in the second of these great farewell discourses of Moses. In it the lawgiver lifted his eyes and looked at the land to be possessed, and proceeded to tell the people...

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• Deuteronomy 26:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I would have the Reader attend to the expressions in these verses, with an eye to the original covenant of grace, and he will then enter into a proper apprehension of them. That original covenant was...

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• Deuteronomy 26:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people ,.... Affirmed and declared them to be his special people, above all people on the face of the earth, and that they were looked upo...

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• Deuteronomy 26:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Avouched Or declared , or owned. Avouched thee Hath owned thee for such before all the world, by eminent and glorious manifestations of his power and favour, by a solemn entering into covenant w...

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• Deuteronomy 26:18 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  FIRSTFRUITS AND TITHES (vs.1-15) In Amalek we have seen that which God refuses. Now a lovely positive contrast is seen in that which God accepts. The Lord giving Israel their promised land, and H...

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• Deuteronomy 26:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Israel Reminded of the Covenant. B. C. 1451.       16 This day the L ORD thy God hath comma...

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• Deuteronomy 26:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Hath owned thee for such before all the world by eminent and glorious communications and manifestations of his power and grace and favour in time and for thee, by a solemn entering into covenant with...

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• Deuteronomy 26:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  VII THE COVENANT CEREMONY ( Deuteronomy 26:16 to Deuteronomy 27:26 ). The covenant having been fully outlined and declared, and the tribute having been offered, the covenant ceremony can now be...

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• Deuteronomy 26:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.—The rehearsal of rights and duties, pubilc and private, terminates in this chapter with two liturgical enactments. These have a clear and close reference to the whole of the preceding...

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• Deuteronomy 26:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Deuteronomy 26:5 . A Syrian ready to perish. The whole Hebrew family came from Mesopotamia, and Jacob repassed the Euphrates with only a staff in his hand. It is good to remember that we rose from...

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• Deuteronomy 26:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER AT THE PRESENTATION OF FIRSTFRUITS AND TITHES . As Moses began his exposition of the laws and rights instituted for Israel by a reference t...

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• Deuteronomy 26:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Keeping the Covenant

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• Deuteronomy 26:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 14:2 ; Deuteronomy 28:9 ; Deuteronomy 7:6 ; Exodus 19:5 ; Exodus 19:6 ; Exodus 6:7 ; Ezekiel 36:25-27 ; Jeremiah 31:32-34 ; Psalms 119:6 ; Romans 16:26 ; Titus 2:14

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• Deuteronomy 26:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Avouched thee — Hath owned thee for such before all the world by eminent and glorious manifestations of his power and favour, by a solemn entering into covenant with thee, and giving peculiar laws,...

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