Verse Leviticus 19:20. _A WOMAN THAT_ IS _A BONDMAID_] Had she been _free_, the law required that she should be put to death; (see Deuteronomy 22:24;) but as she was a _slave_, she is supposed to hav...
BETROTHED TO AN HUSBAND - Rather, who has been betrothed to a man. The reference appears to be to a bondwoman who has been betrothed to a fellow-servant by her master. Death was the punishment for unf...
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
HOLINESS IN FARM LIFE AND BETWEEN THE SEXES. Hybrids are forbidden; a rule which, with its curious extensions, is found in Deuteronomy 22:9 f.; but contrast 2 Samuel 13:29; 1 Kings 10:25;...
REDEEMED. set free (by power). Hebrew. _padah_. See note on Exodus 13:13. NOT FREE. Otherwise death. Deuteronomy 22:24....
Inasmuch as the woman here referred to, though betrothed to a husband, is still a slave, it is no ordinary case of adultery, which is punishable by death (Leviticus 20:10), and so the penalty is to be...
Miscellaneous precepts in reference to the various circumstances of every-day life....
VARIOUS ORDINANCES 19:19-29 TEXT 19:19-29 19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with two kinds of seed: neither shall t...
_AND WHOSOEVER LIETH CARNALLY WITH A WOMAN, THAT IS A BONDMAID, BETROTHED TO AN HUSBAND, AND NOT AT ALL REDEEMED, NOR FREEDOM GIVEN HER; SHE SHALL BE SCOURGED; THEY SHALL NOT BE PUT TO DEATH, BECAUSE...
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...
In the case of a betrothed free woman, both persons were put to death as adulterers, betrothal being regarded as sacredly as marriage itself: see on Exodus 22:16....
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...
AND WHOSOEVER LIETH. — Better, _If a man lie,_ as the same phrase is translated in the Authorised Version, Leviticus 22:14; Leviticus 24:19; Leviticus 25:29;...
וְ֠ אִישׁ כִּֽי ־יִשְׁכַּ֨ב אֶת ־אִשָּׁ֜ה שִׁ
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,...
_Marriageable. Hebrew, "promised, or given in marriage." Septuagint, "reserved for another....she shall," &c. Onkelos and the Arabic version suppose also, that the woman alone was to be scourged with...
The apostle to the Galatians, hath given us so much authority to consider the law and the gospel as shadowed out in the Old Testament, that I venture to think we are, in many cases like the present, a...
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...
Albeit in God’s sight there is no difference between bond and free, yet their condition is diverse as regards courts of justice; (70) nor do the same evil consequences ensue from adultery with a bond-...
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 WHOSOEVER LIETH CARNALLY WITH A WOMAN,.... Has carnal knowledge of her: a man and woman are expressed, signifying those that are of age, Aben Ezra observes, that according to the mystical expositi...
And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that [is] a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because...
_She shall be scourged_ Hebrew, _There shall be a scourging_, which probably may belong to both of them; for, 1st, Both were guilty; 2d, It follows, _they shall not be punished with death_, which may...
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...
BETROTHED: Or, abused by any. _Heb._ reproached by (or, for) man SHE SHALL BE SCOURGED: Or, they. _Heb._ there shall be a scourging...
BETROTHED TO AN HUSBAND; or, _reproached or despised_, and therefore forsaken, _of her husband_. For as his continuance with her in his and her master's family and service is mentioned as an evidence...
Leviticus 19:20 Whoever H376 lies H7901 (H8799) carnally H7902 H2233 woman H802 betrothed H2778 (H8737) man...
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,...
_A bondmaid betrothed._ DIVINE TOLERATION OF DEFECTIVE MORALITY It will be said, and truly, that by this law slavery and concubinage are to a certain extent recognised by the law; and upon this fact...
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...
Deuteronomy 22:23; Deuteronomy 22:24; Exodus 21:20; Exodus 21:21...
She shall be scourged — Heb. There shall be a scourging, which probably may belong to both of them, for Both were guilty. It follows, they shall not be punished with death, which may seem to imply tha...