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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 16:20

That which is altogether just, Heb. righteousness, righteousness, i.e. nothing but righteousness in all causes and times, and to all persons equally. Compare Isaiah 26:7. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Deuteronomy 16:1-22

CRITICAL NOTES.—The religious ordinances to be observed in Canaan are continued. Three great festivals are prominently mentioned—Feast of Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles. Former regulations concerning them are presupposed (Exodus 12:0, Leviticus 23:0, Numbers 28:29), and attention is drawn to certain additional particulars.Deuteronomy 16:1-8. The Feast of Passover. Abib, first month of the ecclesiastical year, corresponds with our April (Exodus 12:2; Exodus 13:4). Passover, prepare, i.e.,... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 16:1-22

Chapter 16In chapter sixteen we now deal with the various feasts that they were to observe when they came into the land. We have rehearsed these as we went through earlier in the book of Exodus and all. You're to keep the feast of the Passover in the first month, the month of April, and no leaven bread and those things of the Passover. Then you may not keep the Passover in any of the cities of the land but the city that God appointed for his place of worship. In other words they had to come to... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 16:1-22

Deuteronomy 16:3 . Bread of affliction, unleavened bread; for while the Egyptians afflicted them, they had not time to prepare their food in a proper manner. Deuteronomy 16:10 . The feast of weeks; from the barley harvest at Easter to Whitsunday, or Pentecost, which lasted only one day, was seven weeks. After this feast the people returned to reap the wheat harvest. Deuteronomy 16:13 . After that thou hast gathered in thy corn. Aristotle in his book of Ethics, ( lib. 8. cap. 9)... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Deuteronomy 16:20

Deuteronomy 16:20That which is altogether Just shalt thou follow.Justice the decorum of the character of judges(preached at the Assizes):--The duties which are incumbent upon us may be very properly divided into two classes--such as are incumbent upon all men, and such as are incumbent upon particular ranks of men.I. Justice is immediately connected with the end of that office which magistrates, judges, and rulers bear. The exercise of justice itself is the proximate means of answering the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 16:20

Deu 16:20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Ver. 20. That which is altogether just. ] Heb., Justice, justice; that is, let pure justice, without mud, run down; let all selfish affections be strained out. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Deuteronomy 16:20

That which: etc. Heb. Justice, justice, Deuteronomy 25:13-Nehemiah :, Micah 6:8, Philippians 4:8 live: Deuteronomy 4:1, Ezekiel 18:5, Ezekiel 18:9, Romans 10:5 Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:14 - General 1 Thessalonians 5:15 - ever 1 Timothy 6:11 - and read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Deuteronomy 16:20

That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.That which is altogether just — Heb. righteousness, righteousness, that is, nothing but righteousness in all causes and times, and to all persons equally. read more