Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Leviticus 20:15
Slay the beast Partly for the prevention of monstrous births, partly to blot out the memory of so loathsome a crime.
Slay the beast Partly for the prevention of monstrous births, partly to blot out the memory of so loathsome a crime.
3. WARNINGS AGAINST SPECIAL SINS AND THEIR PENALTIES CHAPTER 20 _ 1. Warning against Molech--worship and familiar spirits (Leviticus 20:1)_ 2. Warning against cursing parents (Leviticus 20:9) 3. C...
PENALTIES FOR SEXUAL SINS generally death, the manner being unspecified. Adultery, incest, sodomy head the list; the special case of Leviticus 20:14 (contrast Amos 2:7) is followed by the burning of a...
BEAST. See Leviticus 18:23....
Directions on the whole similar to those of Leviticus 18:6-20; Leviticus 18:22-23, but adding penalties for transgression....
CURSING PARENTS-20:9 SEXUAL CRIMES-20:10-21 TEXT 20:9-21 9 For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall...
_SANCTIFY YOURSELVES THEREFORE, AND BE YE HOLY: FOR I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD._ Sanctify yourselves ... and be ye holy. The minute specification of the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumerated sh...
(CHS. 17-26) THE LAW OF HOLINESS This section of Leviticus occupies a position by itself, being distinguished from the rest of the book both by style and contents. A few only of its main characteristi...
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...
WITH A BEAST. — See Leviticus 18:23_. _...
וְ אִ֗ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִתֵּ֧ן שְׁכָבְתֹּ֛ו בִּ בְ
PENAL SANCTIONS Leviticus 20:1 In no age or community has it been found sufficient, to secure obedience, that one should appeal to the conscience of men, or depend, as a sufficient motive, upon the n...
Once more we have a repetition of laws already enunciated with the same persistent thought of responsibility. In this section we find the death sentence associated with certain forms of disobedience,...
_The beast also ye shall kill. The killing of the beast was for the greater horror of the crime, and to prevent the remembrance of such abomination. (Challoner) --- The beast was to be killed with clu...
What is here rehearsed concerning uncleanness, every Christian reader may say, as the apostle, of such horrible corruptions in general, let it not be once named among you as becometh saints. Ephesians...
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...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 AND 20. Chapter s 19, 20, carry us somewhat farther. They were to be holy, for Jehovah was holy. Chapter 19 takes up rather the side of good, though keepin...
IF A MAN LIE WITH A BEAST,.... A sin quite unnatural, exceeding shocking and detestable, forbid Leviticus 18:23: HE SHALL SURELY BE PUT TO DEATH: by stoning, as the Targum of Jonathan adds; and this...
And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast. Ver. 15. _Ye shall slay the beast._] Though innocent: this shows the heinousness of the sin. See Leviticus...
1 Of him that giueth of his seed to Molech. 4 of him that fauoureth such an one. 6 Of going to Wizards. 7 Of sanctification. 9 Of him that curseth his parents. 10 Of adulterie. 11.14.17.19 Of Inc...
And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death; and ye shall slay the beast....
FOR UNLAWFUL MARRIAGES...
PENALTIES FOR SIN GODWARD (VV. 1-8) Chapter 19 has given many laws forbidding sin; now chapter 20 shows that law, when it is broken, demands certain penalties. These penalties were to be executed as s...
10-27 These verses repeat what had been said before, but it was needful there should be line upon line. What praises we owe to God that he has taught the evil of sin, and the sure way of deliverance f...
Partly, for the prevention of monstrous births; partly, to blot out the memory of so loathsome a crime; and partly, that by so severe a punishment of that creature which was only a passive instrument...
Leviticus 20:15 man H376 mates H5414 (H8799) H7903 animal H929 surely H4191 (H8800) death H41
CRIMES WHICH DESERVE THE DEATH PENALTY (LEVITICUS 20:9). Leviticus 20:9 “For every one who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His b...
CONTENTS: Further laws on relationship and walk of God's people. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: God has distinguished His people from all others by a holy covenant with them through Christ, the...
Leviticus 20:2. _Molech._ See on Leviticus 18:21. Leviticus 20:3. _I will cut him off._ Ahaz gave his son to Molech, and the Lord afflicted his reign with miseries....
_He shall surely be put to death._ PENAL SANCTIONS This chapter, directly or indirectly, casts no little light on some most fundamental and practical questions regarding the administration of justice...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 20:10 This section includes the punishments for each of the sexual activities prohibited in ch. Leviticus 18:1: capital punishment ...
Social and Moral Crimes SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 20:2.—Again thou shalt say to the children of Israel. These denunclations of sin (already denounced in ch. 18.) are to be _repeated_ in the heari...
EXPOSITION The subject of Leviticus 18:1, is resumed in this chapter; but that which was before considered as sin only is now regarded as crime, and penalties are attached according to the heinousness...
Chapter twenty, now God begins to get a little heavier. In chapter twenty God goes over some of the things He dealt with in chapter eighteen, only in chapter twenty telling that the violators of these...
Deuteronomy 27:21; Exodus 22:19; Leviticus 18:23...
Slay the beast — Partly for the prevention of monstrous births, partly to blot out the memory of so loathsome a crime....