Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 16:7
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Deuteronomy16:7
7 And thou shalt rost , and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall chuse, and thou shalt turn in the morning and go unto thy tents .
So that word is used also 2 Chron. 35. 13.
Either 1. The morning after the seventh day, as appears, partly by the following verse, which is added to explain and limit this ambiguous word; partly by the express command of God that the people should come to Ierusalem to keep this Feast, which by Gods appointment lasted for seven dayes; partly from the examples of the people staying there the whole time of the feast, 2 Chron. 30. 21. and 35. 17. and partly from the nature and business of this feast, wherein there being so many extraordinary sacrifices to be offered and feasts made by the people upon the sacrifices, and two days of solemn assemblies, it is not probable, that they would absent themselves from these solemn services, for the performance whereof they came purposely to Ierusalem. Or 2. The morning after the first day, and so they were permitted to go then, and possibly some that lived near Ierusalem might go and return again to the last day of solemn assembly. But the former seems more probable.
(i. e.) Thy dwellings, which he calls Tents, as respecting their present state, and withal to put them in mind afterwards when they were settled in better habitations, that there was a time when they dwelt in Tents.
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