Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Deuteronomy 25:18
Smote the hindmost of thee; which God permitted, both for the punishment of Israel's sins, and to harden and prepare them for the difficulties of their expedition.
Smote the hindmost of thee; which God permitted, both for the punishment of Israel's sins, and to harden and prepare them for the difficulties of their expedition.
Verse Deuteronomy 25:18. _SMOTE THE HINDMOST OF THEE_] Exodus 17:8. It is supposed that this command had its final accomplishment in the death of Haman and his ten sons, Esther 3,...
Honesty in trade, as a duty to our neighbor, is emphatically enforced once more (compare Leviticus 19:35). It is noteworthy that John the Baptist puts the like duties in the forefront of his preaching...
21. VARIOUS LAWS AND RESPONSIBILITIES CHAPTER 25 _ 1. Corporal punishment (Deuteronomy 25:1)_ 2. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox (Deuteronomy 25:4) 3. The brother-in-law's marriage (Deu
DEUTERONOMY 25:1. Another of Dt.'s humanitarian laws. Punishment by the bastinado among the ancient Hebrews and Egyptians was common (see Wilkinson- Birch, _Ancient Egyptians_, i. pp. 305, 308). The p...
_how he met thee by the way_ better, FELL ON _thee_. Cp. 1 Samuel 15:2: _how he set himself against him_(Israel) _in the way_. _and smote the hindmost of thee_ Lit. _docked the tail of thee_; elsewhe...
On -Amaleḳ Israel, remembering -Amaleḳ"s impious treatment of their derelicts on the way from Egypt, must, when they rest from their enemies in the land, exterminate -Amaleḳ. In the Sg. address (exce...
LESSON TWENTY DEUTERONOMY 25:17 TO DEUTERONOMY 26:19 n. LAWS OF NATIONAL IMPORT (Deuteronomy 25:17 to Deuter
_REMEMBER WHAT AMALEK DID UNTO THEE BY THE WAY, WHEN YE WERE COME FORTH OUT OF EGYPT;_ Remember what Amalek did ... how he met thee - i:e., stealthily and in hostile encounter. This cold-blooded and...
ORDINANCES REGARDING THE INFLICTION OF STRIPES, THE BAISING OF SEED TO A BROTHER, MODESTY, AND FAIR DEALING 3. _And_ NOT EXCEED] In order to keep within the limit it was usual to inflict thirty-nine s...
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 25 V1 ‘Perhaps two men have an argument and they go to court. The judges declare that one man i...
Deuteronomy 25:17. AMALEK TO BE EXTERMINATED. At the end of all the precepts of humanity, the extermination of that people which is presented to us as the incarnation of inhumanity is decreed. (18) HE...
אֲשֶׁ֨ר קָֽרְךָ֜ בַּ † דֶּ֗רֶךְ וַ יְזַנֵּ֤ב...
This chapter is a continuation of the two previous ones in giving varied instructions. Punishments were to be righteously administered and were never to be excessive. It is interesting to notice what...
_God. This circumstance is not mentioned, Exodus xvii. 14._...
This short account of Amalek, and the punishment of that people, comes in very properly upon the close of the foregoing precepts; for it was both a just weight and just measure, that Israel should req...
It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22. What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22, 23, 24, AND 25. Chapter 22 appears to contain ordinances to guard the people from want of benevolence and mercy, and of that which would offend the sensib...
HOW HE MET THEE BY THE WAY,.... Not with necessary provisions, food and drink, which would have been but a piece of kindness and humanity to travellers; but met them sword in hand, in order to stop th...
How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, [even] all [that were] feeble behind thee, when thou [wast] faint and weary; and he feared not God. Ver. 18. _How he met thee by the way._]...
_Out of Egypt_ Which circumstance greatly aggravated their sin, that they should do thus to a people who had been long exercised with sore afflictions, to whom pity was due by the laws of nature and h...
1 Stripes must not exceed fortie. 4 The Oxe is not to be musled. 5 Of raising seed vnto a brother. 11 Of the immodest woman. 13 Of vniust weights. 17 The memorie of Amalek is to be blotted out....
how he met thee by the way, namely, at Rephidim near Horeb, AND SMOTE THE HINDMOST OF THEE, EVEN ALL THAT WERE FEEBLE BEHIND THEE, WHEN THOU WAST FAINT AND WEARY; AND HE FEARED NOT GOD. The inhumanity...
CORRECT WEIGHTS AND MEASURES...
JUSTICE TEMPERED WITH MERCY (vs.1-3) In the law courts the judges must mete out proper justice, yet not to exceed the limits of justice. If one was guilty of serious crime, it was right to have him b...
17-19 Let every persecutor and injurer of God's people take warning from the case of the Amalekites. The longer it is before judgement comes, the more dreadful will it be at last. Amalek may remind us...
The portion of our book on which we now enter, though not calling for elaborate exposition, yet teaches us two very important practical lessons In the first place, many of the institutions and ordinan...
Deuteronomy 25:18 met H7136 (H8804) way H1870 ranks H2179 (H8762) stragglers H2826 (H8737) rear H310 tired
AMALEK TO BE PUNISHED FOR THEIR GUILT (DEUTERONOMY 25:17). This sudden introduction of this curse on Amalek may seem to take us by surprise, but it in fact a closing echo of Deuteronomy 23:1, while at...
CONTENTS: Divers regulations. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Justice and equity will bring down upon us the blessing of God. Those who do unrighteously are an abomination to the Lord and misera...
Deuteronomy 25:5. _If brethren dwell together._ Not in the same house, but near each other on the ancient lot of land which the family possessed; for Moses often speaks as though the people were alrea...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 25:17__ See Exodus 17:8 for the account of the Amalekites’ opposition to Israel....
CRITICAL NOTES.—CORPORAL PUNISHMENT. _Controv._, dispute arising from inflicted injury. Justify pronounce just, Exodus 23:7; Proverbs 17:15. DEUTERONOMY 25:2. LIE DOWN. “Precisely the same as the Egyp...
EXPOSITION LAWS RELATING TO CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, LEVIRATE MARRIAGES, AND WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. DEUTERONOMY 25:1 The first and second verses should be read as one se
Now in Chapter twenty-five, he continues these interesting kinds of regulations. If two men have a controversy between themselves, then they come to the judges; and let the judges justify the righteou...
Nehemiah 5:15; Nehemiah 5:9; Proverbs 16:6; Psalms 36:1; Romans 3:18...