And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen [it].
Ver. 7. And they shall answer.] To the priest's examining them, and in God's name making inquisition for blood.
17. THE EXPIATION OF AN UNCERTAIN MURDER AND VARIOUS INSTRUCTIONS CHAPTER 21 _ 1. The expiation of an unknown murder (Deuteronomy 21:1)_ 2. Concerning a wife, who had been a prisoner of war (Deuter...
See W. R. Smith, _Kinship_ 1 p. 263 (= 64f. in _Kinship_ 2) for a similar law among the ancient Arabs. The ground of this law may be the belief that, until avenged or atoned for, a murdered man's bloo...
HE. Compare Genesis 49:3. STRENGTH. Hebrew. _'avon. Homonym =_ strength, here and Genesis 49:3 and Job 31:25 (Authorized Version "wealth"); but. suffering, &c, in...
_answer_ TESTIFY, as in Deuteronomy 5:20 (9th Comm.), and Deuteronomy 19:16....
DISCOURSE: 213 THE METHOD OF EXPIATING AN UNKNOWN MURDER Deuteronomy 21:6. And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in...
(b) Expiation for an Unknown Murderer's Crime (Deuteronomy 21:1-9) If one be found slain in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath s...
_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....
EXPIATION OF UNDETECTED HOMICIDE. MARRIAGE OF CAPTIVE WOMEN. PUNISHMENT OF A REBELLIOUS SON The last sub-section of the Second Discourse begins here, containing a variety of social and domestic regul...
The elders, in the name of all the citizens, take an oath of purgation. The publicity and solemnity of the ceremony must have had a powerful effect upon the public conscience, and in some cases no dou...
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 21 V1 ‘Suppose that there has been a murder. Then someone finds the dead body in a field. It is...
XXI. Deuteronomy 21:1. UNDETECTED HOMICIDES. (1) IF ONE BE FOUND SLAIN — It is remarkable that _in_ our own time the most effectual remedy against outrages of which the perpetrators cannot be discov...
וְ עָנ֖וּ וְ אָמְר֑וּ יָדֵ֗ינוּ לֹ֤א _שָֽׁפְכוּ֙_†...
THE ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF ISRAELITE LIFE IT has often and justly been said that the life of Israel is so entirely founded on the grace and favor of God that no distinction is made between the secular an...
Sundry laws affecting the life of the people in the land after the conquest were now uttered. The sin of murder was once again dealt with. This time it was the murder of a person which could not be tr...
_It. Magistrates are in some degree responsible, if by their neglect the high roads are unsafe. (Calmet) --- They had testified that they had done their duty. (Worthington)_...
Was not this washing over the head of the beast; in allusion to the same thing as the high priest on the day of atonement? And in the address to GOD, in which the distinguishing feature of character,...
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 19, 20, AND 21. Chapter 19 opens with ordinances which contemplate the people in possession and enjoyment of the land; they were to observe them, that the la...
AND THEY SHALL ANSWER AND SAY,.... The elders of the city, at the time of the washing of their hands: OUR HANDS HAVE NOT SHED THIS BLOOD; have been no ways concerned in it, nor accessory to it: the T...
_They shall answer_ To the priests who shall examine them. _This blood_ This about which the present inquiry is made; or this which is here present: for it is thought the corpse of the slain man was b...
1 The expiation of an vncertaine murder. 10 The vsage of a captiue taken to wife. 15 The first borne is not to be disinherited vpon priuate affection. 18 A stubburne sonne is to bee stoned to death...
and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it, they and their city were neither guilty of the crime, nor did they have any knowledge of its commissio...
THE CASE OF AN UNKNOWN MURDER...
UNSOLVED MURDER (vs.1-9) If one was killed and his body found removed from any city or town, the murderer being unknown, then elders and judges of Israel were required to ascertain what was the near...
1-9 If a murderer could not be found out, great solemnity is provided for putting away the guilt from the land, as an expression of dread and detesting of that sin. The providence of God has often wo...
THEY SHALL ANSWER, to wit, to the priests who shall examine them and determine this controversy. THIS BLOOD; this about which the present inquiry is made; or this which is here present; for it is thou...
"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; then _ thy elders_ and _ thy judges"_ the guardians of...
Deuteronomy 21:7 answer H6030 (H8804) say H559 (H8804) hands H3027 shed H8210 (H8804) blood H1818 eyes...
REGULATION CONCERNING VIOLENT DEATH WHERE THE MURDERER IS NOT KNOWN (DEUTERONOMY 21:1). While for convenience we are splitting up Moses' speech into parts it should be noted that it is our arrangement...
CONTENTS: Inquest for the slain. Domestic regulations. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: We are to have a dread of the guilt of blood, which defiles not only the conscience of the murderer but the...
Deuteronomy 21:4. _A rough valley._ The guilt being transferred to the heifer, the slaying it in a cultivated field would have polluted the ground. The Hebrew altar allowed of no victim to be offered...
_If one be found slain._ GOD’S VALUE OF INDIVIDUAL LIFE “This narrative,” says one, “sets forth the preciousness of human life in the sight of God.” Dr. Jamieson believes this singular statute conce...
CRITICAL NOTES.—The reason for grouping these five laws, apparently so different from one another, as well as for attaching them to the previous regulations is found in the desire to bring out distinc...
EXPOSITION EXPIATION OF UNCERTAIN MURDER. TREATMENT OF A CAPTIVE TAKEN TO WIFE. RIGHTS OF THE FIRSTBORN. A REBELLIOUS, REFRACTORY SON TO BE JUD
Now in the 21st chapter. If you find a dead body out in the field and you don't know the circumstances of the death; here's a man; he's dead in the field. Then they are to measure from that dead body...
2 Samuel 16:8; Job 21:21; Job 21:31; Numbers 5:19; Psalms 7:3;...
They shall answer — To the priests who shall examine them. This blood — This about which the present enquiry is made: or this which is here present: for it is thought the corps of the slain man was br...