5 Mosebok 15:9

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Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Beware: Proverbs 4:23, Jeremiah 17:10, Matthew 15:19, Mark 7:21, Mark 7:22, Romans 7:8, Romans 7:9, James 4:5

thought: etc. Heb. word with thine heart of Belial

thine eye: Deuteronomy 28:54-56, Proverbs 23:6, Proverbs 24:9, Proverbs 28:22, Matthew 20:15, James 5:9, 1 Peter 4:9

he cry: Deuteronomy 24:15, Exodus 3:7, Exodus 22:23, Job 34:28, Psalms 9:12, Proverbs 21:13, James 5:4

sin unto thee: Matthew 25:41-45, James 4:17, 1 John 3:15-17

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 7:17 - thou shalt Deuteronomy 15:7 - thou shalt Deuteronomy 24:13 - shall be Psalms 37:21 - righteous Proverbs 30:10 - lest Isaiah 5:7 - a cry Amos 4:1 - which oppress Malachi 2:13 - covering Matthew 24:48 - say Acts 8:20 - thou 2 Corinthians 10:5 - every thought James 1:9 - the brother

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart,.... "Or, thy heart of Belial" f; thy worthless heart, and which is without a yoke not subjected to the law of God, as every carnal heart is; and in which Belial, Satan, the prince of this world, works effectually, and inclines to evil thoughts, afflictions, and desires, which are to be guarded against:

saying, the seventh year, the year of release, is at hand: perhaps next year, or within a few months:

and thine eye be evil against thy brother, and thou give him nought; being of an uncompassionate and covetous disposition, shall refuse to give or lend him anything on this consideration, because the year of release will quickly come, when, if poor and unable to pay him, he would be obliged to release his debt:

and he cry unto the Lord against thee; go to the throne of grace, and in prayer bring a charge, and lodge a complaint of unkindness and uncharitableness: and it be a sin unto thee; the Lord shall reckon it as a sin, a very heinous one, and call to an account for it.

f לבבך בליעל "corde tuo Belial", Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The year of release is no doubt identical with the sabbatical year of the earlier legislation (Exodus 23:10 ff, and Leviticus 25:2 ff), the command of the older legislation being here amplified. The release was probably for the year, not total and final, and had reference only to loans lent because of poverty (compare Deuteronomy 15:4, Deuteronomy 15:7). Yet even so the law was found to be too stringent for the avarice of the people, because it was one of those which the rabbis “made of none effect by their traditions.”

Deuteronomy 15:2

Because it is called the Lord’s release - Render, because proclamation has been made of the Lord’s release. The verb is impersonal, and implies (compare Deuteronomy 31:10) that “the solemnity of the year of release” has been publicly announced.

Deuteronomy 15:3

The foreigner would not be bound by the restriction of the sabbatical year, and therefore would have no claim to its special remissions and privileges. He could earn his usual income in the seventh as in other years, and therefore is not exonerated from liability to discharge a debt anymore in the one than the others.

Deuteronomy 15:4

There is no inconsistency between this and Deuteronomy 15:11. The meaning seems simply to be, “Thou must release the debt for the year, except when there be no poor person concerned, a contingency which may happen, for the Lord shall greatly bless thee.” The general object of these precepts, as also of the year of Jubilee and the laws respecting inheritance, is to prevent the total ruin of a needy person, and his disappearance from the families of Israel by the sale of his patrimony.

Deuteronomy 15:9

literally: “Beware that there be not in thy heart a word which is worthlessness” (compare Deuteronomy 13:13 note).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 15:9. Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart] לבבך בליעל lebabecha beliyaal, thy belial heart, that is, thy good-for-nothing or unprofitable heart; Deuteronomy 13:13.

And thine eye be evil — An evil eye signifies a covetous disposition. See the same form of expression used by our Lord in the same sense. Matthew 6:23. If thine eye be evil - If thou be a covetous person. Evil eye is by our Lord opposed to single eye, i. e., a person of a liberal, benevolent mind. Covetousness darkens the soul; liberality and benevolence enlighten it.

And he cry unto the Lord against thee — What a consolation to the poor and the oppressed, that they have a sure friend in God, who will hear their cry and redress their grievances!