_IF ONE BE FOUND SLAIN IN THE LAND WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE TO POSSESS IT, LYING IN THE FIELD, AND IT BE NOT KNOWN WHO HATH SLAIN HIM:_ If one be found slain ... lying in the field. The ceremonies here ordained to be observed on the discovery of a slaughtered corpse show the ideas of sanc... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN THY ELDERS AND THY JUDGES SHALL COME FORTH, AND THEY SHALL MEASURE UNTO THE CITIES WHICH ARE ROUND ABOUT HIM THAT IS SLAIN:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEN THOU GOEST FORTH TO WAR AGAINST THINE ENEMIES, AND THE LORD THY GOD HATH DELIVERED THEM INTO THINE HANDS, AND THOU HAST TAKEN THEM CAPTIVE,_ When thou goest forth to war ... and seest among the captives a beautiful woman (cf. Numbers 31:18). According to the war customs of all ancient nations... [ Continue Reading ]
_IF A MAN HAVE TWO WIVES, ONE BELOVED, AND ANOTHER HATED, AND THEY HAVE BORN HIM CHILDREN, BOTH THE BELOVED AND THE HATED; AND IF THE FIRSTBORN SON BE HERS THAT WAS HATED:_ IF A MAN HAVE TWO WIVES, ONE BELOVED, AND ANOTHER HATED. In the original, and in all translations but ours, the words are rende... [ Continue Reading ]
_IF A MAN HAVE A STUBBORN AND REBELLIOUS SON, WHICH WILL NOT OBEY THE VOICE OF HIS FATHER, OR THE VOICE OF HIS MOTHER, AND THAT, WHEN THEY HAVE CHASTENED HIM, WILL NOT HEARKEN UNTO THEM:_ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son. A severe law was enacted in this case. Hebrew parents were not, as... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IF A MAN HAVE COMMITTED A SIN WORTHY OF DEATH, AND HE BE TO BE PUT TO DEATH, AND THOU HANG HIM ON A TREE:_ If a man have committed a sin ... and thou hang him on a tree. Hanging was not a Hebrew form of execution-gibbeting is meant; but the body was not to be left to rot, or be a prey to raven... [ Continue Reading ]
_HIS BODY SHALL NOT REMAIN ALL NIGHT UPON THE TREE, BUT THOU SHALT IN ANY WISE BURY HIM THAT DAY; (FOR HE THAT IS HANGED IS ACCURSED OF GOD;) THAT THY LAND BE NOT DEFILED, WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE FOR AN INHERITANCE._ (For he that is hanged is accursed of God), х_ TAALUWY_ (H8518)] - susp... [ Continue Reading ]