13Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things 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:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. …
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-15)Concerning the disposal of their tithe the third year we had the law before, Deut. 14:28 , 29 . The second tithe, which in the other two years was to be spent in extraordinaries at the feasts, was to be spent the third year at home, in entertaining the poor. Now because this was done from under the eye of the priests, and a great confidence was put in the people’s honesty, that they would dispose…
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