Deuteronomy 26:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then 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:

Levite

I have not

1 John 3:17

Forgotten

Psalm 119:93

Proverbs 3:1

General references

Numbers 13:27

Deuteronomy 14:22

Bible References

Levite

When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thy produce in the third year, the year of tithing, thou shalt give it to the Levite, to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat in thy gates, and be filled;

and the Levite for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest.

When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and forgettest a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not return to fetch it; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands.

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

I have not

For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

{A Psalm of David.} Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in mine integrity, and I have confided in Jehovah: I shall not slip.

For this cause I also exercise myself to have in everything a conscience without offence towards God and men.

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity before God, (not in fleshly wisdom but in God's grace,) we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly towards you.

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus knows he who is blessed for ever that I do not lie.

Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and righteously and blamelessly we have conducted ourselves with you that believe:

But whoso may have the world's substance, and see his brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how abides the love of God in him?

Forgotten

I will never forget thy precepts; for by them thou hast quickened me.

My son, forget not my teaching, and let thy heart observe my commandments;

General references

And they told him, and said, We came to the land to which thou didst send us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.

Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, the produce of the field, year by year.