16. Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God—No command was laid on women to undertake the journeys, partly from regard to the natural weakness of their sex, and partly to their domestic cares.

     1, 2. Our feet shall stand—literally, "are standing."

     2. gates—(Compare Ps 9:14; 87:2).

     3-5. compact together—all parts united, as in David's time.

     4. testimony—If "unto" is supplied, this may denote the ark (Ex 25:10-21); otherwise the act of going is denoted, called a testimony in allusion to the requisition (De 16:16), with which it was a compliance.