Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Exodus 20:14
Thou shalt not commit adultery This commandment forbids all acts of uncleanness, with all those desires which produce those acts and war against the soul.
Thou shalt not commit adultery This commandment forbids all acts of uncleanness, with all those desires which produce those acts and war against the soul.
THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT Against _adultery_ and _uncleanness_. Verse Exodus 20:14. _THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY._] Adultery, as defined by our laws, is of _two_ kinds; _double_, when between two...
The Hebrew name which is rendered in our King James Version as the ten commandments occurs in Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 4:13; Deuteronomy 10:4. It literally means “the Ten Words.” The Ten Commandmen
CHAPTER 20 THE COVENANT REVEALED _ 1. The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1)_ 2. Jehovah's gracious provision (Exodus 20:18) This law covenant is now stated. It was given three times. First orally here,...
EXODUS 20-24, 34. THE CODES IN EXODUS. Recent study has by many converging lines of argument, based on subject matter, choice of words, relation to the context, idiomatic phrasing, comparison with the...
THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY. This commandment forbids every form of sensuality in act or thought. (1) The most fearful denunciations of Scripture are against sensuality. (2) Nature protests agai...
The _seventh_commandment. The purity of the married state to be maintained (cf. Genesis 2:24 J). Cf. Leviticus 18:20 (H), Job 31:9-12, and Ma
THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY— After securing the _life,_ the Lord proceeds to secure that part of property which is often as dear, or dearer to human creatures, than life itself. The Hebrew word her...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 20 AND GOD SPAKE ALL THESE WORDS, SAYING, (2) I am Je-ho-vah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of E-gypt, out of the house of bondage. (3) Thou shalt have no ot...
_THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY._ Thou shalt not commit adultery, х_ LO'_ (H3808) _ TIN'AAP_ (H5003)] - a word used with reference both to man and woman (cf. Leviticus 20:10); and although the verb i...
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (VV. 1-21) Exodus 20-23, containing (1) the Decalogue (Gk. = 'Ten Words' or 'Commandments') and (2) a code of laws regulating the religious and social life of the people, and call...
EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 20 GOD’S TEN *COMMANDMENTS – VERSES 1-17 V1 God spoke all these wor...
THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY. — Next to the duty of respecting a man’s life is placed that of respecting his domestic peace and honour. Adultery is an invasion of the household, a destruction of the...
לֹ֣֖א תִּֿנְאָֽ֑ף׃ ס...
THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT. "Thou shalt not commit adultery."-- Exodus 20:14. This commandment follows very obviously from even the rudest principle of justice to our neighbour. It is among those that...
THE “TEN WORDS” SPOKEN AT SINAI Exodus 20:1 The Law was given by the disposition of angels, through the medium of Moses. See John 1:17; Acts 7:53. It tells us, not what God is, for that is only shown...
Here we have the Ten Words of the moral Law. They are introduced by a proclamation of God concerning Himself: first as to His name, "I am Jehovah"; second, as to His relation to them, "thy God"; and,...
Thou shalt not (k) commit adultery. (k) But be pure in heart, word and deed....
_Adultery. This precept is placed before the former one, in the Septuagint; St. Mark x. 19; and St. Luke xviii. 20. Adultery was punished with death, Leviticus xx. 10. All civilized nations have held...
This is the seventh commandment. Jesus is the great Commentator again here, Matthew 5:28; Matthew 5:28....
"In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...
Although one kind of impurity is alone referred to, it is sufficiently plain, from the principle laid down, that believers are generally exhorted to chastity; for, if the Law be a perfect rule of holy...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. But having thus terminated the course of grace, the scene changes entirely. They do not keep the feast on the mountain, whither God, as He had...
THOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,] Which, strictly speaking, is only that sin which is committed with another man's wife, as Jarchi observes; but Aben Ezra thinks the word here used signifies the same a...
Thou shalt not commit adultery. Ver. 14. _Thou shalt not commit adultery._] Adultery only is named; because bestiality, sodomy, and other unclcannesses, though more heinous, yet they do not directly...
1 The ten Commandements. 18 The people are afraid. 20 Moses comforteth them. 22 Idolatrie is forbidden. 24 Of what sort the Altar should be. 1 AND God spake all these words, saying, 2 [NOTE: Deut...
Thou shalt not commit adultery, the word here used including not only the unfaithfulness of men and women within holy marriage, but every form of impurity directed against the holiness of God's instit...
THE COMMANDMENTS CONCERNING THE LOVE OF ONE'S NEIGHBOR...
SECOND SECTION The Threefold Law of the Covenant for the Covenant People on the Basis of the Prophetic, Ethico-religious Divine Law of the Ten Commandments. Historical Prophecy Exodus 20-31 A. THE T...
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (vs.1-17) Before God gives the ten commandments, He makes is abundantly clear that Israel's obedience to law had nothing to do with God's previous grace toward them in delivering...
12-17 The laws of the SECOND table, that is, the last six of the ten commandments, state our duty to ourselves and to one another, and explain the great commandment, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as...
Here is mentioned one kind of uncleanness, as being eminently sinful, and unjust, and pernicious to human society. But under this are comprehended and forbidden all other kinds of filthiness, as besti...
It is of the utmost importance to understand the true character and object of the moral law, as set forth in this chapter. There is a tendency in the mind to confound the principles of law and grace,...
Exodus 20:14 not H3808 adultery H5003 (H8799) Leviticus 18:20, Leviticus 20:10;...
THE SECOND FIVE WORDS - MAN'S RESPONSIBILITY TOWARDS GOD FOR HIS NEIGHBOUR (EXODUS 20:13). These commands are absolute. They reveal the sanctity in God's eyes of a man's right to fair treatment by his...
Exodus 20:14 As there is a Divine idea to be fulfilled in the relations between parents and children which makes that relationship sacred, so there is a Divine idea to be fulfilled in marriage, in all...
Exodus 20:13 There are very sad and fearful thoughts connected with these commandments. But there are also very blessed thoughts connected with them. I. Is it nothing to remember that the Lord God Hi...
Exodus 20:1. _And God spake all these words saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me._ God...
CONTENTS: Ten commandments delivered to Moses at Sinai. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: A holy and righteous God has holy and righteous standards. Those who love God will constantly endeavor to...
Exodus 20:1. _God spake all these words._ In compassion to man, and the increasing weakness of human traditions, it has pleased the infinitely wise and Holy One to renew the evidences of revelation at...
_Thou shalt not commit adultery._ THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT I. What it forbids. 1. Unchastity in thought and desire (Matthew 5:28; Proverbs 6:18). 2. Unchastity in conversation (Ephesians 5:3
EXODUS 20:1 Covenant Words and Rules. This section records what will later be referred to as the “Book of the Covenant” (Exodus 24:7) and includes: the Ten Commandments ...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 20:13 The sixth through eighth commandments present general prohibitions not to MURDER (see note on Deut. 5:17), COMMIT ADULTERY, or...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 20:14_ THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT Among the various, the innumerable proofs, which God has given of His perfect goodness, the institution of marriage is one of...
EXPOSITION THE DELIVERY OF THE MORAL LAW. Every necessary preparation had now been made. The priests, as well as the people, had "sanctified themselves." A wholesome dread of "breaking" through the fe...
And God spake these words, saying (Exodus 20:1), Now the people said, "All that the Lord commands, we will do." All right this is what the Lord has spoken. Now these are the commandments of God. I am...
Exodus 18:20 Exodus 20:10 2 Samuel 11:4 2 Samuel 11:5 2 Samuel 11:2
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS Exodus 20:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As introductory to this study we wish to answer some statements relative to the Christian and the Law. 1. SAINTS ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW FOR SALVA...
BREAKING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS Exodus 20:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have today a study on the Ten Commandments. These Commandments were written upon two tables of stone. The first four, written on one...
Thou shalt not commit adultery — This commandment forbids all acts of uncleanness, with all those desires, which produce those acts and war against the soul....