The regulations which now follow in the rest of this and throughout the next chapter bring out the sanctity of various personal rights and relations fundamental to human life and society.
Deuteronomy 21:10. The war supposed here is one against the neighboring nations after Israel had utterly destroyed the Canaanites (compare Deuteronomy 7:3), and taken possession of their land.
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...
Another regulation (only here) pertaining to war (see ch. 20, which it should perhaps immediately follow). It is another example of D's humanitarianism (Deuteronomy 15:12 *). The relief claimed for th...
HANDS. Hebrew text reads "hand"; but some codices, with The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Septuagint, and Syriac, read "hands", as Authorized Version....
_When thou goest forth_, etc.] see on Deuteronomy 20:1. Read _enemy_(sing.) because of the following: _and the Lord thy God delivereth_ HIM _into thine hands_(see on Deuteronomy 1:27); AND THOU TAKEST...
Of Marriage with a Captive of War If a woman taken in war is desired for a wife (Deuteronomy 21:11 f.), she may be brought home, but the marriage shall not take place till she has shaved her hair, pa...
(6) MARRYING WOMEN CAPTIVES (Deuteronomy 21:10-14) 10 When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God delivereth them into thy hands, and thou carriest them away captive, 11...
_WHEN THOU GOEST FORTH TO WAR AGAINST THINE ENEMIES, AND THE LORD THY GOD HATH DELIVERED THEM INTO THINE HANDS, AND THOU HAST TAKEN THEM CAPTIVE,_ When thou goest forth to war ... and seest among the...
21:10 them, (f-25) Lit. 'thou hast led captive his captivity.'...
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...
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...
Deuteronomy 21:10. MARRIAGE OF CAPTIVE WOMEN. (10, 11) WHEN THOU... SEEST AMONG THE CAPTIVES A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. — This could not be among the seven nations, of whom it is said (Deuteronomy 20:1), “tho...
כִּֽי ־תֵצֵ֥א לַ † מִּלְחָמָ֖ה עַל ־אֹיְבֶ֑יךָ...
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...
Captives. Some Rabbins say this was only lawful in what they call voluntary wars, which the Lord had not commanded, as in those which were waged against the devoted nations it was not permitted to res...
I pass over the natural history of the things here mentioned, to attend to the spiritual doctrine which seems to be veiled under it. And here, methinks, I see the LORD JESUS gathering from the Gentile...
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...
10._When thou goest forth to war. _The same thing is now commanded respecting wives as above respecting meats. As regarded the Canaanites, who were destined and devoted to destruction, we have seen th...
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...
WHEN THOU GOEST FORTH TO WAR AGAINST THINE ENEMIES,.... This refers to an arbitrary war, as Jarchi remarks, which they entered into of themselves, of choice, or through being provoked to it by their e...
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...
THE LAW OF CAPTIVE WOMEN...
When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, those outside of Canaan, Deuteronomy 20:13, AND THE LORD, THY GOD, HATH DELIVERED THEM INTO THINE HANDS, AND THOU HAST TAKEN THEM CAPTIVE,...
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...
10-14 By this law a soldier was allowed to marry his captive, if he pleased. This might take place upon some occasions; but the law does not show any approval of it. It also intimates how binding the...
THINE ENEMIES, of other nations, but not of the Canaanites, for they might not spare their women, and much less marry them, EXODUS 34:16 DEUTERONOMY 7:3....
"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 21:10 out H3318 (H8799) war H4421 enemies H341 (H8802) LORD H3068 God H430 delivers H5414 ...
IV. FURTHER REGULATIONS CENTRAL TO THE MAINTENANCE OF SOCIETY AND THE MAINTENANCE OF FAMILY UNITY (DEUTERONOMY 21:10). The remainder of Deuteronomy 21 deals with what is to happen in certain cases con...
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...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 21:10 This law must apply to conquests of cities far away (Deuteronomy 20:10), otherwise the women would have been destroyed ...
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...
Deuteronomy 20:10...
Enemies — Of other nations, but not of the Canaanites....