Deuteronomy 24:1-4

In this and the next chapter certain particular rights and duties, domestic, social, and civil, are treated. The cases brought forward have often no definite connection, and seem selected in order to illustrate the application of the great principles of the Law in certain important events and circum... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 24:16

A caution addressed to earthly judges. Among other Oriental nations the family of a criminal was commonly involved in his punishment (compare Esther 9:13). In Israel it was not to be so; compare marginal references.... [ Continue Reading ]

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