Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Leviticus 20:17
See her nakedness — In this and several of the following verses, uncovering nakedness plainly appears to mean not marriage, but fornication or adultery.
See her nakedness — In this and several of the following verses, uncovering nakedness plainly appears to mean not marriage, but fornication or adultery.
CUT OFF ... - See Exodus 31:14 note. The more full expression here used probably refers to some special form of public excommunication, accompanied, it may be, by expulsion from the camp....
3. WARNINGS AGAINST SPECIAL SINS AND THEIR PENALTIES CHAPTER 20 _ 1. Warning against Molech--worship and familiar spirits (Leviticus 20:1)_ 2. Warning against cursing parents (Leviticus 20:9) 3. C...
PENALTIES FOR SEXUAL SINS generally death, the manner being unspecified. Adultery, incest, sodomy head the list; the special case of Leviticus 20:14 (contrast Amos 2:7) is followed by the burning of a...
SISTER. See Leviticus 18:9. SIGHT OF THEIR PEOPLE.. special penalty is attached to this disgraceful thing. INIQUITY. perverseness. Hebrew. _avon_. App-44....
Directions on the whole similar to those of Leviticus 18:6-20; Leviticus 18:22-23, but adding penalties for transgression....
THEY SHALL BE CUT OFF IN THE SIGHT OF THEIR PEOPLE— Some, again, believe that this punishment implies that they _shall be separated_ from the communion and covenant of Israel; and not, that they shoul...
CURSING PARENTS-20:9 SEXUAL CRIMES-20:10-21 TEXT 20:9-21 9 For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall...
_SANCTIFY YOURSELVES THEREFORE, AND BE YE HOLY: FOR I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD._ Sanctify yourselves ... and be ye holy. The minute specification of the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumerated sh...
(CHS. 17-26) THE LAW OF HOLINESS This section of Leviticus occupies a position by itself, being distinguished from the rest of the book both by style and contents. A few only of its main characteristi...
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...
TAKE HIS SISTER. — See Leviticus 18:9....
וְ אִ֣ישׁ אֲשֶׁר ־יִקַּ֣ח אֶת ־אֲחֹתֹ֡ו בַּת
PENAL SANCTIONS Leviticus 20:1 In no age or community has it been found sufficient, to secure obedience, that one should appeal to the conscience of men, or depend, as a sufficient motive, upon the n...
Once more we have a repetition of laws already enunciated with the same persistent thought of responsibility. In this section we find the death sentence associated with certain forms of disobedience,...
A crime. Hebrew chesed, commonly signifies an act of piety or goodness, as if Moses intended to insinuate that such marriages were at first lawful. (Thalmud; Selden, Jur. v. 8.) But a softer term is u...
What is here rehearsed concerning uncleanness, every Christian reader may say, as the apostle, of such horrible corruptions in general, let it not be once named among you as becometh saints. Ephesians...
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...
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...
AND IF A MAN SHALL TAKE HIS SISTER, HIS FATHER'S DAUGHTER, OR HIS MOTHER'S DAUGHTER,.... Take her to be his wife, or commit lewdness with her, whether she be his sister by both father and mother's sid...
And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it [is] a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of...
_See her nakedness_ In this and several of the following verses, _uncovering nakedness_ plainly appears to mean not marriage, but fornication or adultery....
1 Of him that giueth of his seed to Molech. 4 of him that fauoureth such an one. 6 Of going to Wizards. 7 Of sanctification. 9 Of him that curseth his parents. 10 Of adulterie. 11.14.17.19 Of Inc...
And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter or his mother's daughter, his (older) half-sister, AND SEE HER NAKEDNESS AND SHE SEE HIS NAKEDNESS, IT IS A WICKED THING, a disgraceful act; A...
FOR UNLAWFUL MARRIAGES...
PENALTIES FOR SIN GODWARD (VV. 1-8) Chapter 19 has given many laws forbidding sin; now chapter 20 shows that law, when it is broken, demands certain penalties. These penalties were to be executed as s...
10-27 These verses repeat what had been said before, but it was needful there should be line upon line. What praises we owe to God that he has taught the evil of sin, and the sure way of deliverance f...
SEEING is here understood, either, 1. Properly, and so God would cut off the occasions of further filthiness. Or rather, 2. Improperly, for touching her or lying with her; for, 1. The sense of _seei...
Leviticus 20:17 man H376 takes H3947 (H8799) sister H269 fathers H1 daughter H1323 or H176 mothers H517 daughter...
CRIMES WHICH DESERVE THE DEATH PENALTY (LEVITICUS 20:9). Leviticus 20:9 “For every one who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His b...
CONTENTS: Further laws on relationship and walk of God's people. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: God has distinguished His people from all others by a holy covenant with them through Christ, the...
Leviticus 20:2. _Molech._ See on Leviticus 18:21. Leviticus 20:3. _I will cut him off._ Ahaz gave his son to Molech, and the Lord afflicted his reign with miseries....
_He shall surely be put to death._ PENAL SANCTIONS This chapter, directly or indirectly, casts no little light on some most fundamental and practical questions regarding the administration of justice...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 20:10 This section includes the punishments for each of the sexual activities prohibited in ch. Leviticus 18:1: capital punishment ...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 20:17 SEES HER NAKEDNESS. A euphemism for having sexual relations. ⇐...
Social and Moral Crimes SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 20:2.—Again thou shalt say to the children of Israel. These denunclations of sin (already denounced in ch. 18.) are to be _repeated_ in the heari...
EXPOSITION The subject of Leviticus 18:1, is resumed in this chapter; but that which was before considered as sin only is now regarded as crime, and penalties are attached according to the heinousness...
Chapter twenty, now God begins to get a little heavier. In chapter twenty God goes over some of the things He dealt with in chapter eighteen, only in chapter twenty telling that the violators of these...
2 Samuel 13:12; Deuteronomy 27:22; Ezekiel 22:11; Genesis 20:12;...