Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Leviticus 18:4
My judgments — Though you do not see the particular reason of some of them, and though they be contrary to the laws and usages of the other nations.
My judgments — Though you do not see the particular reason of some of them, and though they be contrary to the laws and usages of the other nations.
V. PRACTICAL HOLINESS IN DAILY LIFE 1. Different Unholy Relationships CHAPTER 18 _ 1. Separation and obedience (Leviticus 18:1)_ 2. Unholy relationships (Leviticus 18:6) 3. Vile and abominable pr...
GENERAL WARNING AGAINST CONFORMITY TO INDIGENOUS PRACTICES. The phrase I am Yahweh is characteristic of Ezek. and H, occurring twenty-one times in Leviticus 18-20. If a command is understood as coming...
JUDGMENTS. regulations....
Laws dealing with various Moral Subjects These three chs. contain features common to two or all three of them, which are found nowhere else in the Pentateuch. Such are (1) a collection of laws combin...
HOLINESS IN THE MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP 18:1-30 IMPRESSIVE INTRODUCTION TO THE SUBJECT 18:1-5 TEXT 18:1-5 1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto th...
_SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND SAY UNTO THEM, I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD._ I am the Lord your God. This renewed mention of the divine sovereignty over the Israelites was intended to bear particu...
18:4 ordinances (i-2) Or 'judgments,' as ver. 5 and elsewhere....
LAW OF FORBIDDEN DEGREES OF MARRIAGE, AND OF CHASTITY 3. Some of the unions here forbidden as incestuous were permitted among the nations of antiquity. The early Egyptians, e.g. permitted marriage wit...
LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...
YE SHALL DO MY JUDGMENTS. — The expression “my judgments and mine ordinances” is here used emphatically, in opposition to “their ordinances,” and has here the force of _Mine only;_ just as the phrase...
אֶת ־מִשְׁפָּטַ֧י תַּעֲשׂ֛וּ וְ אֶת ־חֻקֹּתַ֥י...
THE LAW OF HOLINESS: CHASTITY Leviticus 18:1 Chapter S 18, 19, and 20, by a formal introduction Leviticus 18:1 and a formal closing, Leviticus 20:22 are indicated as a distinct section, very commonly...
At this point in the enunciation of the laws of separation they assume a slightly altered character. So far, the fundamental matters of relationships to God have been the principal note. Now the habit...
How David speaks of his love to the LORD'S judgments, Psalms 119:1 throughout! But, Reader, did not these statutes, judgments, testimonies, etc. (which as far as I recollect are mentioned, under one t...
We have seen the various forms of the work of Christ, of His offering of Himself to God, whether in all the perfectness of His life, or in His death as the means of our acceptance. We have seen furthe...
4._Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments_. Because it is no less difficult to correct vices, to which men have been long accustomed, than to cure diseases of long standing, especially b...
Chapter 18 keeps them from dishonouring themselves in the things which belong to nature itself-to what man ought to be in his natural relations, that he might not dishonour himself. Man ought not to d...
YE SHALL DO MY JUDGMENTS,.... Which are just and right, and according to the rules of justice and equity; these are things, as Jarchi observes, which are said in the law with judgment, or are laws fra...
Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I [am] the LORD your God. Ver. 4. _To walk therein._] Not to halt therein, nor to take a turn or two, or for a while, as Samson we...
_My judgments_ Though you do not see the particular reason of some of them, and though they be contrary to the laws and usages of the other nations....
[VNLAWFULL MARRIAGES.] 1 Vnlawfull Marriages. 19 Vnlawfull lusts. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, saying, 2 Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, I am the LORD your God. 3 After...
Ye shall do My judgments and keep Mine ordinances to walk there in; I am the Lord, your God. His authority, as the only true God, was absolute....
UNLAWFUL MARRIAGES...
FORBIDDING SEXUAL SINS (VV. 1-30) Chapter 17 has dealt with sin directly against God; now chapter 18 speaks of sin in relationship with other creatures, primarily humans, but also animals (v. 23). Mos...
My judgments and mine ordinances; mine universally, DEUTERONOMY 27:26 GALATIANS 3:10; for though the words be indefinite, the matter is necessary; and mine solely, DEUTERONOMY 6:13, compared with...
LEVITICUS 20:1-27. This section sets before us, in a very remarkable manner, the personal sanctity and moral propriety which Jehovah looked for, on the part of those whom He had graciously introduced...
Leviticus 18:4 observe H6213 (H8799) judgments H4941 keep H8104 (H8799) ordinances H2708 walk H3212 (H8800) LORD
THE COMMAND TO OBEY YAHWEH THEIR GOD WHOSE COMMANDS BRING LIFE (LEVITICUS 18:2). Leviticus 18:2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, I am Yahweh your God.” What follows very much has...
CONTENTS: Relationship and walk of God's people. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Fleshly lusts war against the soul and will certainly be the ruin of it, if God's mercy and grace prevent not. K...
Leviticus 18:21. _Molech,_ or Moloch, was the chief idol of the Sabians, and of the Ammonites. 1 Kings 11:7; 1 Kings 11:33. To this idol Solomon built a high place on mount Olivet. The form of the ido...
_Ye shall do My judgments _ SAFETY IN THE OBSERVANCE OF GOD’S LAWS This preface of some is taken generally to concern all the laws of God; the observation whereof is ever the sure safety of a state p...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 18:1 The Call to Holiness. This section applies the principle of holiness (Leviticus 19:1) to various aspects of Israelite life. Chapte
Incestuous Marriages: Domestic Purity SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 18:2.—Speak unto them and say, I am the Lord your God. Jehovah is the sole lawgiver, His word the one law to His people: ungodly cu...
PART III. SECTION III. EXPOSITION MORAL UNCLEANNESS AND ITS PUNISHMENT. This being the subject of the three following chapters (chapters 18-20), they naturally form a sequence to chapters 11-17, whic...
Here we find the term used over and over again, "For I am the Lord your God." So God wants a holy people. He tells them how they are to walk with them. "For I am the Lord your God", and actually layin...
Deuteronomy 4:1; Deuteronomy 4:2; Deuteronomy 6:1; Ezekiel 20:19;...