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Ulangan 15:7

Jika sekiranya ada di antaramu seorang miskin, salah seorang saudaramu di dalam salah satu tempatmu, di negeri yang diberikan kepadamu oleh TUHAN, Allahmu, maka janganlah engkau menegarkan hati ataupun menggenggam tangan terhadap saudaramu yang miskin itu,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Alms;   Beneficence;   Fraternity;   Lending;   Liberality;   Poor;   Thompson Chain Reference - Alms;   Almsgiving;   Liberality-Parsimony;   Needy, the;   Philanthropy;   Poor, the;   Poverty-Riches;   Social Duties;   The Topic Concordance - Charity;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Hands, the;   Heart, the;   Poor, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Loans;   Usury;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Food;   Freedom;   Lending;   Money;   Poor;   Sabbatical year;   Wealth;   Work;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Contribution;   Golden Rule;   Poor and Poverty, Theology of;   Wealth;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Agriculture;   Alms;   Debt;   Debtor;   Poor;   Sabbatical Year;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hospitality;   Law;   Poor;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Alms;   Ethics;   Festivals;   Loan;   Poor, Orphan, Widow;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Debt;   Deuteronomy;   Ethics;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Eternity;   Liberality;   Slave, Slavery (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Alms;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Brother;   Heritage;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Year sabbatical;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Hospitality;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Debts;   Usury;   Year;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Other Laws;   Property Given to Religion;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Poor;   Poverty;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Alms;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Agrarian Laws;   Begging and Beggars;   Commandments, the 613;   Debarim Rabbah;   ḥaluḳḳah;   Ransom;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Jika sekiranya ada di antaramu seorang miskin, salah seorang saudaramu di dalam salah satu tempatmu, di negeri yang diberikan kepadamu oleh TUHAN, Allahmu, maka janganlah engkau menegarkan hati ataupun menggenggam tangan terhadap saudaramu yang miskin itu,
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka apabila di antara kamu adalah seorang miskin, yaitu dari pada segala saudaramu yang duduk sebelah dalam pintu gerbangmu, dalam negeri yang dikaruniakan Tuhan, Allahmu, kepadamu kelak, maka janganlah kamu keras hati atau mengatup tangan dari pada saudaramu yang miskin itu.

Contextual Overview

1 At the terme of seuen yeres, thou shalt make a freedome. 2 And this is the maner of the freedome: Who so euer lendeth ought with his hande vnto his neighbour, may not aske agayne (that which he hath lent) of his neighbour or of his brother, because it is called the Lordes free yere: 3 Yet of a straunger thou mayst call it home agayne: but he that is thy brother, hym shall thine hande remit. 4 Neuerthelesse, there shalbe no begger among you: for the Lorde shall blesse thee in the lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee for an inheritaunce: 5 So that thou hearken vnto the voyce of the Lord thy God, to obserue and do all these commaundementes which I commaunde thee this day: 6 For the Lorde thy God hath blessed thee, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt lende vnto many nations, but thou thy selfe shalt not borowe: And thou shalt raigne ouer many nations, and they shall not raigne ouer thee. 7 If one of thy brethren among you be poore within any of thy gates in thy lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee: thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut to thine hande from thy poore brother: 8 But thou shalt open thine hande vnto hym, and lende hym sufficient for his neede which he hath. 9 Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thine heart, that thou wouldest say, the seuenth yere, the yere of freedome is at hande: and therfore it greeueth thee to loke on thy poore brother, and geuest hym naught, and he then crye vnto the Lorde agaynst thee, and it be sinne vnto thee: 10 Thou shalt geue hym, and let it not greeue thine heart to geue vnto hym: Because that for this thyng the Lorde thy God shall blesse thee in all thy workes, and in all that thou puttest thine hande to.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

there be: Lest the preceding law might render the Israelites cautious in lending to the poor, Moses here warns them against being led by so mean a principle; but to lend liberally, and God would reward them.

thou shalt: Deuteronomy 15:9, Proverbs 21:13, Matthew 18:30, James 2:15, James 2:16, 1 John 3:16, 1 John 3:17

Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:35 - thy brother 1 Samuel 30:11 - gave him Nehemiah 5:1 - their brethren Nehemiah 5:3 - mortgaged Nehemiah 10:31 - the exaction Job 22:7 - not given Job 31:16 - withheld Psalms 41:1 - Blessed Psalms 112:5 - showeth Proverbs 19:17 - lendeth Proverbs 22:9 - He that hath a bountiful eye Proverbs 28:27 - that giveth Ecclesiastes 11:1 - thy bread Isaiah 58:10 - thou draw Ezekiel 18:7 - hath given Zechariah 7:9 - saying Matthew 5:42 - General Matthew 25:35 - I was an Luke 6:30 - Give 2 Corinthians 9:7 - not 1 Timothy 6:18 - ready James 1:9 - the brother

Cross-References

Genesis 12:1
And the Lord had sayde vnto Abram: get thee out of thy coutrey, and out of thy nation, and from thy fathers house, vnto a lande that I wyll shewe thee:
Genesis 12:7
And the Lorde appearyng vnto Abram, sayd, Unto thy seede wyl I geue this lande: And there buylded he an aulter vnto the Lorde whiche appeared vnto hym.
Genesis 15:2
And Abram sayde: Lorde God what wylt thou geue me when I go chyldelesse, the chylde of the stewardship of my house is this Eleazer of Damasco?
Genesis 15:4
And beholde, the worde of the Lorde came vnto hym, saying, he shall not be thine heire: but one that shall come out of thine own bowels shalbe thine heire.
Genesis 15:7
And agayne he saide vnto him: I am the Lorde that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to geue thee this lande, & that thou myghtest inherite it.
Genesis 15:8
And he sayde: Lorde God wherby shall I knowe that I shall inherite it?
Genesis 15:15
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and shalt be buried in a good olde age.
Genesis 15:17
And so it was, that when the sonne went downe, and it was twylyght, beholde a smokyng furnesse and a fire brande goyng betweene the said peeces.
Psalms 105:11
Saying, vnto thee I wyll geue the lande of Chanaan: the lot of your inheritaunce.
Psalms 105:42
For he remembred his holy worde: [spoken] vnto Abraham his seruaunt.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren,.... As there would be, according to the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem, if they did not keep the commandments of the law, and continue therein:

within any of thy gates, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee; a native of the land was to be preferred to a foreigner, and a brother, whether in relation or religion, to a proselyte of the gate; and the poor of a city to which a man belonged, to the poor of another city, as Jarchi observes; which he gathers from this phrase,

within any of thy gates: thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy brother; so as not to pity his distressed case, and have no bowels of compassion for him, and feel for his want, and so as not to distribute to his necessities, and relieve him.

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).


 
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