Egypt and Canaan These two nations he mentions, because their habitation and conversation among them made their evil example in the following matters more dangerous. But under them he includes all other nations.
Verse Leviticus 18:3. _THE DOINGS OF THE LAND OF EGYPT - THE LAND OF CANAAN_] The worshipping of demons, beasts, c., as mentioned in the preceding chapters, Leviticus 17:7, and the abominations menti...
See the Leviticus 18:24 note....
V. PRACTICAL HOLINESS IN DAILY LIFE 1. Different Unholy Relationships CHAPTER 18 _ 1. Separation and obedience (Leviticus 18:1)_ 2. Unholy relationships (Leviticus 18:6) 3. Vile and abominable pr...
GENERAL WARNING AGAINST CONFORMITY TO INDIGENOUS PRACTICES. The phrase I am Yahweh is characteristic of Ezek. and H, occurring twenty-one times in Leviticus 18-20. If a command is understood as coming...
THE DOINGS: i.e. all the abominable practices of the Canaanitish nations (Leviticus 18:27), for which they were cut off, Romans 1:23. ORDINANCES. statutes....
Laws dealing with various Moral Subjects These three chs. contain features common to two or all three of them, which are found nowhere else in the Pentateuch. Such are (1) a collection of laws combin...
HOLINESS IN THE MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP 18:1-30 IMPRESSIVE INTRODUCTION TO THE SUBJECT 18:1-5 TEXT 18:1-5 1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto th...
_SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND SAY UNTO THEM, I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD._ I am the Lord your God. This renewed mention of the divine sovereignty over the Israelites was intended to bear particu...
LAW OF FORBIDDEN DEGREES OF MARRIAGE, AND OF CHASTITY 3. Some of the unions here forbidden as incestuous were permitted among the nations of antiquity. The early Egyptians, e.g. permitted marriage wit...
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...
AFTER THE DOINGS OF THE LAND OF EGYPT. — During their sojourn in Egypt the Israelites became familiar with the practices which obtained in the land of their bondage, and as they adopted some of them ...
כְּ מַעֲשֵׂ֧ה אֶֽרֶץ ־מִצְרַ֛יִם אֲשֶׁ֥ר יְשַׁבְתֶּם...
THE LAW OF HOLINESS: CHASTITY Leviticus 18:1 Chapter S 18, 19, and 20, by a formal introduction Leviticus 18:1 and a formal closing, Leviticus 20:22 are indicated as a distinct section, very commonly...
At this point in the enunciation of the laws of separation they assume a slightly altered character. So far, the fundamental matters of relationships to God have been the principal note. Now the habit...
After the (a) doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinance...
_Ordinances respecting marriages, divine worship, &c. (Haydock)_...
How David speaks of his love to the LORD'S judgments, Psalms 119:1 throughout! But, Reader, did not these statutes, judgments, testimonies, etc. (which as far as I recollect are mentioned, under one t...
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...
Chapter 18 keeps them from dishonouring themselves in the things which belong to nature itself-to what man ought to be in his natural relations, that he might not dishonour himself. Man ought not to d...
AFTER THE DOINGS OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, WHEREIN YE DWELT, SHALL YE NOT DO,.... Where they had dwelt many years, and were just come out from thence, and where they had learned many of their evil practic...
After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances....
[VNLAWFULL MARRIAGES.] 1 Vnlawfull Marriages. 19 Vnlawfull lusts. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, saying, 2 Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, I am the LORD your God. 3 After...
After the doings of the land of Egypt wherein ye blood shall ye not do, and after the doings of the land of Canaan whither I bring you shall ye not do; neither shall ye walk in their ordinances. The c...
UNLAWFUL MARRIAGES...
FORBIDDING SEXUAL SINS (VV. 1-30) Chapter 17 has dealt with sin directly against God; now chapter 18 speaks of sin in relationship with other creatures, primarily humans, but also animals (v. 23). Mos...
EGYPT AND CANAAN: these two nations he mentions, because their habitation and conversation among them made their evil example in the following matters more dangerous. But under them he includes all ot...
LEVITICUS 20:1-27. This section sets before us, in a very remarkable manner, the personal sanctity and moral propriety which Jehovah looked for, on the part of those whom He had graciously introduced...
Leviticus 18:3 doings H4639 land H776 Egypt H4714 dwelt H3427 (H8804) do H6213 (H8799) doings H4639 land...
THE COMMAND TO OBEY YAHWEH THEIR GOD WHOSE COMMANDS BRING LIFE (LEVITICUS 18:2). Leviticus 18:2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, I am Yahweh your God.” What follows very much has...
CONTENTS: Relationship and walk of God's people. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Fleshly lusts war against the soul and will certainly be the ruin of it, if God's mercy and grace prevent not. K...
Leviticus 18:21. _Molech,_ or Moloch, was the chief idol of the Sabians, and of the Ammonites. 1 Kings 11:7; 1 Kings 11:33. To this idol Solomon built a high place on mount Olivet. The form of the ido...
_Ye shall do My judgments _ SAFETY IN THE OBSERVANCE OF GOD’S LAWS This preface of some is taken generally to concern all the laws of God; the observation whereof is ever the sure safety of a state p...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 18:1 The Call to Holiness. This section applies the principle of holiness (Leviticus 19:1) to various aspects of Israelite life. Chapte
Incestuous Marriages: Domestic Purity SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 18:2.—Speak unto them and say, I am the Lord your God. Jehovah is the sole lawgiver, His word the one law to His people: ungodly cu...
PART III. SECTION III. EXPOSITION MORAL UNCLEANNESS AND ITS PUNISHMENT. This being the subject of the three following chapters (chapters 18-20), they naturally form a sequence to chapters 11-17, whic...
Here we find the term used over and over again, "For I am the Lord your God." So God wants a holy people. He tells them how they are to walk with them. "For I am the Lord your God", and actually layin...
1 Peter 4:2; Deuteronomy 12:30; Deuteronomy 12:31; Deuteronomy 12:4;...
Egypt and Canaan — These two nations he mentions, because their habitation and conversation among them made their evil example in the following matters more dangerous. But under them he includes all o...