_A.M. 2514. B.C. 1490._ Prohibitions against offering children to Molech, Leviticus 20:1. Against consulting wizards, Leviticus 20:6. Holiness enjoined, Leviticus 20:7; Leviticus 20:8. Against cursing parents, Leviticus 20:9. Against adultery, Leviticus 20:10. Against incestuous mixtures, Leviticus... [ Continue Reading ]
_The people_ Here follow the punishments of the crimes forbidden in the former Chapter s.... [ Continue Reading ]
_I will set my face against that man_ Deal with him as an enemy, and make him a monument of my justice. _To defile my sanctuary_ Because the sanctuary was defiled by gross abominations committed in that city or land where God's sanctuary was: or because by these actions they declared to all men that... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hide their eyes_ Wink at his fault, and forbear to accuse and punish him.... [ Continue Reading ]
_To go a whoring_ To seek counsel or help from them.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Who sanctify you_ Who separate you from all nations, and from their impurities and idolatries, to be a peculiar people to myself; and who give you my grace to keep my statutes.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Curseth_ This is not here meant of every perverse expression, but of bitter reproaches or imprecations. _His blood shall be upon him_ He is guilty of his own death: he deserves to die for so unnatural a crime.... [ Continue Reading ]
_The adulterer and adulteress shall surely be put to death_ Adultery, however lightly it may be accounted of by men who are lost to all sense of virtue and honour, has not only under the Mosaic economy, but by several other civilized nations; been reckoned a capital wickedness. By the ancient laws o... [ Continue Reading ]
_Confusion_ By perverting the order which God hath appointed, and making the same offspring both his own child and his grand-child.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Put to death_ Except the one party was forced by the other: see Deuteronomy 22:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
_They_ All who consented to it.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Slay the beast_ Partly for the prevention of monstrous births, partly to blot out the memory of so loathsome a crime.... [ Continue Reading ]
_See her nakedness_ In this and several of the following verses, _uncovering nakedness_ plainly appears to mean not marriage, but fornication or adultery.... [ Continue Reading ]
_They shall die childless_ Both shall be speedily cut off ere they can have a child by that incestuous conjunction; or, if this seem a less crime than most of the former incestuous mixtures, and therefore the magistrate forbear to punish it with death, yet they shall either have no children from suc... [ Continue Reading ]
_His brother's wife_ Except in the case allowed by God, Deuteronomy 25:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
_A man or a woman that hath a familiar spirit, shall surely be put to death_ They that are in league with the devil have in effect made a covenant with death; and so shall their doom be.... [ Continue Reading ]