i J frtfwit itili//o/ .Glf DEUTERONOMrE XXVI. of amity ; therefore the Greeke tranLlateth, be re- f fled thce ; when k had been his duty to have met them with bread and water, for their refrefhing, Dcut, 23.4. In I Samuel 15.2. it is laid, he laid (wait) fer hi. ad in the way. fmotetbebindmof] Hebrew, cut off the talle; a Itratagem of warre, lawful[ against Gods'enetnies, as Jolua Io. 19. but wicked againft his people. Thee reeketran- flateth, Cut . ff thy hindmog treope; in Chaldee, he Wed. feeble] in Greche , wearied; in Chaldee, lingring: which fa& was cruelty in Amakk; for the faint and feeble ought to be comforted and refrefhed, Match. 11.28. I Theif. 5.14. and firth were gathered in the Rereward, as /fiat/ march- ed ,Numb. to. 25. Though this might beajult corre&ion from God,for filch as fainted in their travtll, wherein they fhould have been incoura- ged. See the notes on Exod. 17. 8. feared not God] theChaldee faith, be feared not theglorie of the Lord: for his glorie conducted them in a pillar of cloud and fire, Exodus 13.21. and God by Ggnes and wonders, great plagues and terrible - neffe, had brought Ifrael out of Egypt , which made all peoples afraid; Exod.15.14i &c. yet A- malekfeared not. As by the flare ofrbe Lord, men de- part from eviti, Prov.i 6.6. fò the want of his feare is the caufe why men rufh into all evill , Pfal. 36. 1, 2, &c. 9 Verl. 19. given refi unto tbeefrom all] under which is implied,a jubduing ofall the enemies; for fo thefe phrafes doe explaine one another , 2 Sam. 7. I I. with r Chronicles 17.10. And here God defer - reth vengeance till after many yeeres: fo (hewing forbearance towards the wicked, which fhould leade them to repentance,Rom.2.4. and compaf- f on towards his people, whom he would not ex- ercife with all waters at once, left they should be difcomfited.. See Exod. 13. 17. Not out ] or, wipe out the remembrance, that there fhould no name or memorials of them remain : a fgne of great wrath, as Deuter. 9.14. and 29. 2o. This judgement God executed by Saul the firft King of /pad, whom he lent to deftroy utterly thetè Amalekites, both man and woman, infant andflicking, oxe andfaeepe, camel and aJJi, I Sam. 15. 2, 3. But he failed in the performance of it: therforeGod [ }erredup the Simeonites (in King Ezekiiat daies) and they fmote the reff of the Amalekites, that were of a- ped, 1 Citron. 4. 425 43. Yet Haman of Agag the Amalekite remained, who plotted the death of all the Jewes : but he and his ten ions were kil- led; and Amaleko memory is perifhed, Heft. 3, I &c. And under this, the like judgement on Anti - chrift was figured : fee the Annotations on Exo- dus 17. fhak not forget] that is, Take heed thou forget it not: by forgetting he implieth alto neglei of performing this judgement. There- fore Saul who performed it not thorowly, but fpar,_d the King , and the belt of the carrell, (though for facrifice unto the Lord) was reje£t- ed of God, as having finned greatly, I Sam. 15. s, 23. and for it he was thine, s Chron. 10. i13. and, an Amalekite had an hand in his death, 2 Sans. 1. 8, 9, 10. MAIMAAAAAMMAIAMA CHAP. XXVI. 1 The proJefìon of him that offeretb the basket of fall. f uito. 22 The eonfefion of him that bash given hit third yeeres Tithes. 16 The Covenant baweene God ant the people. 0© Nd it (hall be when thou art come into the land which Jehovah thy God giveth unto thee for an inheri- tance, and thou pofl"elfeft it, and dwelleft therein ; That thou fhalt take of the firft of all the fruit of the earth, which thoa (halt bring of thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth unto thee , and fl air pur it in a basket, and (halt got unto a place which Je- hovah thy God (hall chufe to caufehis name to dwell there. And thou (halt come unto the Prieft, which flail be in thofe daies,and (halt fay unto him , I profeffethis day unto Jehovah thy Goel , that I am come into thc. Land which Jehovah tware unto our fathers for to give unto us. And the Prieft flaalt take the basket our of thine hard and (hall frt it downe before the Altar of Jehovah thy God. And thou (halt anfwerand faybefore Jehovah thy God, A Syrian (ready to pe- rr(b) was my Father, and he went downe into Egypt, and fojourned there with a few men,and.became there a nation grear,nmigh- tie and many. And the Egyptians evill en- treated us, and af8iéted us, and laid upon us hard fervitude. And we cried out unto Jeho vah the God of our Fathers, and Jehovah heard our voice, and law our afilion, and our labour, and our oppreffion. And Jeho- vah brought us forth out of Egypt, with a ftrong hand, and with an out - ((retched arme,and with great terribleneffe, and with liignes, and with wonders. And bee hath brought us into this place, and hath given unto us this land, a land flowing with milke and honey. And now , behold, I have brought the firft fruit of the land, which thou, Jehovah,haft given unto me; and thou (halt let it downe before Jehovah thy God, and (halt bow downe thy felfe before Jeho- vah thy Go-d. And thou (halt rejoyce in all the good which Jehovah thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine hhufe; thou, andthe Levite, and the ftranger that is in the midifof thee. When thou haft made an end of tithing all the tithe of thy revenue, in the third yeere, the. /////r//IIQIWasea® uumni 117 I 2 3 4 6 7 g 9 CO II I2
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