Judges 8:4-6

faint.

1Sa 14:28,29,31,32; 30:10; 2Co 4:8,9,16; Ga 6:9; Heb 12:1-4

Succoth.

Ge 33:17; Ps 60:6

loaves.

Ge 14:18; De 23:4; 1Sa 25:18; 2Sa 17:28,29; 3Jo 1:6-8

5:23; Ge 25:13; 37:25,28; 1Sa 25:10,11; 1Ki 20:11; 2Ki 14:9

Pr 18:23; Php 2:21

Ecclesiastes 11:1-2

1 Directions for charity.

7 Death in life,

9 and the day ofjudgment in the days of youth, are to be thought on.

Cast.That is, says Bp. Lowth, "Sow thy seed or corn on the face of the waters;" in plain terms, sow without any hope of a harvest: do good even to them on whom your benefactions seem thrown away. Dr. Jebb has well illustrated it by the following passages: "Vain are the favours done to vicious men; Not vainer 'tis to sow the foaming deep. The deep no pleasant harvest shall afford, Nor will the wicked ever make return." "To befriend the wicked is like sowing in the sea." These, indeed, invert this precept; nor is it extraordinary that they should; "The one, frail human power alone produced, The other, God."

thy bread.

De 15:7-11; Pr 11:24,25; 22:9; Isa 32:8

waters. Heb. face of the waters.

Isa 32:20

for.

6; De 15:10; Ps 41:1,2; 126:5,6; Pr 11:18; 19:17; Mt 10:13,42; 25:40

Lu 14:14; 2Co 9:6; Ga 6:8-10; Heb 6:10

a portion.

Ne 8:10; Es 9:19,22; Ps 112:9; Lu 6:30-35; 1Ti 6:18,19

seven.

Job 5:19; Pr 6:16; Mic 5:5; Mt 18:22; Lu 17:4

for.

Da 4:27; Ac 11:28-30; Ga 6:1; Eph 5:16; Heb 13:3

Isaiah 21:14

Tema.

Ge 25:15; 1Ch 1:30; Job 6:19

brought. or, bring ye.

16:3,4; Jud 8:4-8; Pr 25:21; Ro 12:20; 1Pe 4:9

Isaiah 58:7

to deal.

10; Job 22:7; 31:18-21; Ps 112:9; Pr 22:9; 25:21; 28:27; Ec 11:1,2

Eze 18:7,16; Da 4:27; Mt 25:35-40; Lu 11:41; 19:8; Ro 12:20,21

2Co 9:6-10; 1Ti 5:10; Phm 1:7; Jas 2:15,16; 1Jo 3:17,18

bring.

16:3,4; Ge 18:2-5; 19:2; Jud 19:20,21; Ac 16:15,34; Ro 12:13

Heb 13:2,3

cast out. or, afflicted. the naked.

2Ch 28:15; Job 31:19,20; Eze 18:7; Mt 25:35-45; Lu 3:11

thine own.

Ge 19:14; Jud 9:2; Ne 5:5; Lu 10:26-36; 1Jo 3:17
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