Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Leviticus 19:16
Stand against the blood — In judgment as a false accuser or false witness, for accusers and witnesses use to stand, whilst the judges sit in courts of judicature.
Stand against the blood — In judgment as a false accuser or false witness, for accusers and witnesses use to stand, whilst the judges sit in courts of judicature.
Verse Leviticus 19:16. _THOU SHALT NOT GO UP AND DOWN AS A TALE-BEARER_] רכיל _rachil_ signifies a _trader_, a _pedlar_, and is here applied to the person who travels about dealing in scandal and cal...
STAND AGAINST THE BLOOD OF THY NEIGHBOR - Either, to put his life in danger by standing up as his accuser (compare Matthew 26:60); or, to stand by idly when thy neighbor’s life is in danger. Whichever...
2. DIFFERENT DUTIES CHAPTER 19 _ 1. Honoring parents and fearing God (Leviticus 19:1)_ 2. The care of the poor (Leviticus 19:9) 3. Against stealing and lying (Leviticus 19:11) 4
HUMANITY AND UPRIGHTNESS. Gleaning is to be encouraged, both in field and vineyard. It may well be that the corners of the field were originally left so as to avoid driving out the vegetation spirit....
TALEBEARER.. solemn warning here. Rendered "slandering" in Jeremiah 6:28; Jeremiah 9:4.Ezekiel 22:9 (margin). (Compare 1 Samuel 22:9.)...
_a talebearer_ Cp. Proverbs 11:13; Proverbs 20:19. Jewish teachers frequently insist on the heinousness of slander. See Otho, _Lex. Rabb. s.v. Calumnia_, and note the rendering of Targ. Jon., -Thou sh...
Against unrighteousness in judgement, and slander. Cp. Exodus 23:1-3; Exodus 23:6-7; Deuteronomy 1:17; Deuteronomy 16:19;...
THOU SHALT NOT GO UP AND DOWN AS A TALE-BEARER— This hateful practice is discountenanced in the strongest manner in the New Testament, and is, in every respect, contrary to that love which dwells with...
THE SECOND TABLE OF THE LAW 19:9-18 TEXT 19:9-18 9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleaning of thy harve...
_YE SHALL NOT STEAL, NEITHER DEAL FALSELY, NEITHER LIE ONE TO ANOTHER._ Ye shall not steal ... neither lie one to another, х_ 'IYSH_ (H376) _ BA`ªMIYTOW_ (H5997)] - a man by his neighbour. A variety...
19:16 life (d-19) Lit. 'blood.'...
VARIOUS LAWS, MAINLY OF A MORAL AND HUMANE CHARACTER This chapter was very naturally regarded by Jewish authorities as an embodiment of the Decalogue. It will be observed that in general the precepts...
Stand against the blood of thy neighbour] This may mean generally any conduct imperilling a neighbour's life. But its connexion here with the sin of slander suggests that what is specially meant is th...
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...
THOU SHALT NOT GO UP AND DOWN AS A TALE-BEARER. — Better, _Thou shalt not go about slandering,_ as the Authorised Version has it in Jeremiah 6:28; Jeremiah 9:4; Ezekiel 22:9, Margin. Whilst giving jus...
לֹא ־תֵלֵ֤ךְ רָכִיל֙ בְּ עַמֶּ֔יךָ לֹ֥א תַעֲמ
THE LAW OF HOLINESS (CONCLUDED) Leviticus 19:1 WE have in this chapter a series of precepts and prohibitions which from internal evidence appear to have been selected by an inspired redactor of the c...
The more positive habits of separation are insisted on by the repetition of laws already given, with one reiterated emphasis, namely, the fact that the God of this people is Jehovah. There was, first,...
Thou shalt not (e) go up and down [as] a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou (f) stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I [am] the LORD. (e) As a slanderer, backbiter, or quarrel picke...
Detracter, whisperer. Hebrew rakil, stands for both these terms. Some translate a parasite, a merchant, vilifying the goods of others to enhance the price of his own; or a spy, seeking to discover and...
All these precepts explain themselves. The argument made use of for the enforcing them is striking; the LORD'S authority. Cursing the deaf, putting a stumbling block in the way of the blind; and the l...
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...
_TALE-BEARING_ ‘Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer.’ Leviticus 19:16 I. EVIL-SPEAKING IS A READY WAY OF MAKING OURSELVES AGREEABLE TO OTHER PEOPLE: ‘Scandal sweetens many a cup of tea.’...
16._Thou shalt not go up and down_. The principle of the second clause is the same as that of the foregoing verse, for it is added to a general precept, whereby detraction is condemned: and much more...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 AND 20. Chapter s 19, 20, carry us somewhat farther. They were to be holy, for Jehovah was holy. Chapter 19 takes up rather the side of good, though keepin...
THOU SHALL NOT GO UP AND DOWN [AS] A TALEBEARER AMONG THY PEOPLE,.... The word used signifies a merchant, and particularly one that deals in drugs and spices, and especially a peddler in those things,...
Thou shalt not go up and down [as] a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I [am] the LORD. Ver. 16. _Up and down as a talebearer._] Heb., As a ped...
_Stand against the blood_ In judgment, as a false accuser, or false witness, for accusers and witnesses use to stand, while the judges sit, in courts of judicature....
1 A repetition of sundry Lawes. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, saying, 2 Speake vnto all the Congregation of the children of Israel, and say vnto them, [NOTE: Leviticus 11:44; Leviticus 20:7; 1 Pet...
MANY LAWS GROUPED TOGETHER (VV. 1-37) We have seen at the beginning and end of chapter 18 God's announcement, “I am the Lord your God.” In chapter 19 the expression “I am the Lord” occurs 15 times. Bu...
AS A TALE-BEARER, who makes it his business to go up and down from one to another, and divulge evil and false reports concerning others, which, though many times it proceeds only from levity and talka...
Leviticus 19:16 go H3212 (H8799) talebearer H7400 people H5971 stand H5975 (H8799) life H1818 neighbor H7453 L
THE REQUIREMENT TO ENSURE FAIRNESS AND COMPASSION (LEVITICUS 19:14). Leviticus 19:14 “You (s) shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am...
CONTENTS: Further laws concerning proper relationships. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: God's people being distinguished from all other people by a peculiar relationship with Him through Christ,...
The leading precepts of the law are here repeated to give them new force, and with many additions and illustrations, that they might be better understood. Most of these having already been explained,...
_Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer._ TALEBEARING AND SLANDER I. Character is in the keeping, and therefore at the mercy of acquaintances. 1. Therefore supremely value each other’s good...
WHEN SILENCE IS GOLDEN Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people. Leviticus 19:16. Tell-tale-tit, your tongue shall be slit, And all the doggies in the town shall have a littl...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 19:1__ The Lord strongly commands the people (including the priests) to become holy in their practice, as he is holy (v. Leviticus 19:2). They do this by observi
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 19:11 Holiness requires that a person keep the Word of God, especially the Ten Commandments. ⇐...
Practical Piety: Religion in all Relationships SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 19:2.—Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say: Nowhere else in the whole of Leviticus does this...
EXPOSITION From the prohibition of moral uncleanness exhibiting itself in the form of incest and licentiousness, the legislator proceeds to a series of laws and commandments against other kinds of imm...
Now God continues in this same vein, as He moves into chapter nineteen. Speak unto all of the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am ho...
1 Kings 21:10; 1 Peter 2:1; 1 Timothy 3:11; 2 Timothy 3:3; Acts 24:4