Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Exodus 22:22
Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. To humble widows and orphans by acts of unkindness is to challenge the Lord, who is the special Protector of the desolate.
Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. To humble widows and orphans by acts of unkindness is to challenge the Lord, who is the special Protector of the desolate.
Verse Exodus 22:22. _YE SHALL NOT AFFLICT ANY WIDOW, OR FATHERLESS CHILD._] It is remarkable that offences against this law are not left to the discretion of the _judges_ to be _punished_; God reserv...
AFFLICT - A word including all cold and contemptuous treatment. See Deuteronomy 10:18. Contrast the blessing, Deuteronomy 14:29....
CHAPTER 22 FURTHER JUDGMENTS _ 1. Concerning theft (Exodus 22:1)_ 2. Concerning neglect in case of fire (Exodus 22:6) 3. Concerning dishonesty (Exodus 22:7) 4. Concerning immoralities and forbidde...
EXODUS 22:18 E. VARIOUS ORDINANCES. From this point up to Exodus 23:9 we have to do with miscellaneous laws, differing in the main both in form and substance from the Judgments, and therefore here reg...
WIDOW, or fatherless. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Species), App-6, put for all kinds of helpless ones....
The helpless widow, and orphan, not to be oppressed. The widow, the orphan, and the -sojourner," as liable in various ways to suffer from rapacious judges, and hard-hearted moneyed men, are constantly...
21-27. A group of humanitarian laws. The _gêr_, or resident foreigner, the widow, and the orphan not to be oppressed, _vv._21 24; interest not to be taken from the poor, _v._25; a garment taken in ple...
Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33 _The Book of the Covenant_ The -Book of the Covenant" (see Exodus 24:7 in explanation of the name) is the oldest piece of Hebrew legislation that we possess. The laws co...
YE SHALL NOT AFFLICT ANY WIDOW, &C.— The humanity of the Divine law is always discernible: none are so helpless and pitiable, as widows and orphans: God therefore enjoins, under the severest penalties...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 22 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. (2) If the thief be found breaking in,...
_YE SHALL NOT AFFLICT ANY WIDOW, OR FATHERLESS CHILD._ Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child, х_ LO'_ (H3808) _ Tª`ANUWN_ (H6031)] - ye shall not afflict or humble. The word implies col...
THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT (CONTINUED) 1. Four sheep] The larger compensation required in the case of the ox is probably due to the fact that it is an animal used for labour, and of proportionately hig...
EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 22 LAWS ABOUT PROPERTY – VERSES 1-15 V1 The *LORD continued to spe...
MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. (16-31) The remainder of the chapter contains laws which it is impossible to bring under any general head or heads, and which can, therefore, only be regarded as miscellaneous. Mo...
(21-24) The juxtaposition of laws against oppression with three crimes of the deepest dye seems intended to indicate that oppression is among the sins which are most hateful in God’s sight. The lawgiv...
_[Exodus 22:21]_ כָּל ־אַלְמָנָ֥ה וְ יָתֹ֖ום לֹ֥א...
CHAPTER XXII. _ THE LESSER LAW (continued)._ PART IV. Exodus 22:16 - Exodus 23:19. The Fourth section of this law within the law consists of enactments, curiously disconnected, many of them without...
The laws of property follow. The section really begins with verse Exo 21:33 of the previous chapter. These laws also began by laying emphasis on the guilt of carelessness. The truth emphasized is that...
How precious these tokens of divine love to peculiar situations. Proverbs 22:22; Psalms 12:5....
"In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. But having thus terminated the course of grace, the scene changes entirely. They do not keep the feast on the mountain, whither God, as He had...
YE SHALL NOT AFFLICT ANY WIDOW OR FATHERLESS CHILD. Who have no friends, husband, or father to be on their side and protect them, and are weak and helpless to defend themselves, and therefore it must...
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. Ver. 22. _Or fatherless child._] With God "the fatherless findeth mercy." Hos 14:3 Widows and orphans are God's clients, taken into his protection...
_Ye shall not afflict the widow, or fatherless child_ That is, ye shall comfort and assist them, and be ready upon all occasions to show them kindness. In making just demands from them, their conditio...
1 Of theft. 5 Of dammage. 7 Of trespasses. 14.Of borrowing. 16 Of fornication. 18 Of witchcraft. 19 Of bestialitie. 20 Of idolatrie. 21 Of strangers, widowes, and fatherlesse. 25 Of vsurie. 2...
C. FIRST FORM OF THE LAW OF THE POLITICAL COMMONWEALTH Exodus 21:1 to Exodus 23:33 _a. Right of Personal Freedom (according to Bertheau, ten in number)_ 1Now these _are_ the judgments [ordinances] w...
LAWS AS REGARDS PROPERTY (vs.1-15) While one rightly was control over his own property, yet he is also responsible as to how he uses it. If one were to dig a pit, even on his own property, and leave...
No text from Poole on this verse....
The study of this section of our book is eminently calculated to impress the heart with a sense d God's unsearchable wisdom and infinite goodness. It enables one to form some idea of the character of...
Exodus 22:22 afflict H6031 (H8762) widow H490 child H3490 Deuteronomy 10:18,...
SUNDRY REGULATIONS (EXODUS 22:18 TO EXODUS 23:9). The regulations that follow are mainly apodictic, direct commands made specifically by God requiring total obedience. As such they are not paralleled...
EXPANSION OF THE TEN WORDS OF THE COVENANT (EXODUS 20:22 TO EXODUS 23:33). In this section, which is composed of elements put together mainly in chiastic form (see later), Yahweh expands on the Ten W...
CONTENTS: Judgments on rights of property; crimes against humanity. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Man's attitude to his fellow man will be based on his attitude to God and His law. KEY WORD:...
Exodus 22:2. _Breaking up,_ by forcible entrance into a house, _there shall no blood be shed for him,_ though he be killed by another in his own defence. In that case the thief might be presumed to ha...
_Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child._ GOD’S CARE FOR THE WIDOW AND FATHERLESS I. That widows and orphans have claims upon our regard. 1. They have claims upon our sympathy. Their s...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 22:22 The Lord repeatedly forbids the mistreatment of the WIDOW and the FATHERLESS CHILD (e.g., Isaiah 1:17,...
_SUGGESTIVE COMMENTS ON THE VERSES_ WITCHCRAFT.—_Exodus 22:18_ The term is here used to represent the whole class of wizards, necromancers, and diviners with which the world has been infested from a...
EXPOSITION MISCELLANEOUS LAWS (Exodus 22:16-2) EXODUS 22:16, EXODUS 22:17 _Laws against seduction_. It has been
EXPOSITION II. LAWS CONNECTED WITH RIGHTS OF PROPERTY (verses 33-36). From the consideration of injuries to the person, the legislator proceeds to treat of injuries to property, and, as he has been sp...
If a man shall steal an ox, and kill it, [The rustlers] and sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, four sheep for a sheep (Exodus 22:1). You see in those days they were interested in taking ca...
Deuteronomy 10:18 Deuteronomy 24:17 Deuteronomy 27:19 Psalms 94:6...
Ye shall not afflict the widow or fatherless child — That is, ye shall comfort and assist them, and be ready upon all occasions to shew them kindness. In making just demands from them, their condition...