Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Deuteronomy 21:19
the gate: i.e. the place of judgment.
the gate: i.e. the place of judgment.
The formal accusation of parents against a child was to be received without inquiry, as being its own proof. Thus the just authority of the parents is recognized and effectually upheld (compare Exodus...
17. THE EXPIATION OF AN UNCERTAIN MURDER AND VARIOUS INSTRUCTIONS CHAPTER 21 _ 1. The expiation of an unknown murder (Deuteronomy 21:1)_ 2. Concerning a wife, who had been a prisoner of war (Deuter...
Peculiar to D. Here respect for _both_ parents is enforced (see Exodus 20:12; Exodus 21:15); _cf._ CH. § 195, The son's hand which has smitten his _father_ shall be cut off (see Deuteronomy 15:12 *)....
_lay hold_ Deuteronomy 22:28; cp. Deuteronomy 9:17. _Bring out_, Deuteronomy 17:5, _q.v._, Deuteronomy 22:21
Of a Disobedient Son If a man have a son, who, in spite of his parents" rebuke, fails to obey them (Deuteronomy 21:18), they shall bring him forth to the gate, and state the case to the elders of the...
(2) THE TREATMENT OF STUBBORN SONS (Deuteronomy 21:18-21) 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and though they chaste...
_IF A MAN HAVE A STUBBORN AND REBELLIOUS SON, WHICH WILL NOT OBEY THE VOICE OF HIS FATHER, OR THE VOICE OF HIS MOTHER, AND THAT, WHEN THEY HAVE CHASTENED HIM, WILL NOT HEARKEN UNTO THEM:_ If a man ha...
EXPIATION OF UNDETECTED HOMICIDE. MARRIAGE OF CAPTIVE WOMEN. PUNISHMENT OF A REBELLIOUS SON The last sub-section of the Second Discourse begins here, containing a variety of social and domestic regul...
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 21 V1 ‘Suppose that there has been a murder. Then someone finds the dead body in a field. It is...
Deuteronomy 21:18. THE INCORRIGIBLE SON. (18) IF A MAN HAVE A STUBBORN AND REBELLIOUS SON. — Here we are again reminded that the Law of Jehovah was also the civil and criminal law of Israel. The syste...
וְ תָ֥פְשׂוּ בֹ֖ו אָבִ֣יו וְ אִמֹּ֑ו וְ
THE ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF ISRAELITE LIFE IT has often and justly been said that the life of Israel is so entirely founded on the grace and favor of God that no distinction is made between the secular an...
Sundry laws affecting the life of the people in the land after the conquest were now uttered. The sin of murder was once again dealt with. This time it was the murder of a person which could not be tr...
Ancients. In considerable cities there was a tribunal of three, and another of 23 judges. The former took cognizance of the first accusation, and condemned the stubborn child to be scourged: but the l...
It is very worthy observation; how exceedingly jealous the LORD hath manifested himself for the honor of his law. The ties of nature were all to give way when the honour of GOD stood in competition. S...
It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22. What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19, 20, AND 21. Chapter 19 opens with ordinances which contemplate the people in possession and enjoyment of the land; they were to observe them, that the la...
THEN SHALL HIS FATHER AND HIS MOTHER LAY HOLD ON HIM,.... With their own hands, or cause him to be apprehended by others, in which they were to agree, and which the Jews gather from hence; "if (say t...
_His father and mother_ The consent of both is required, to prevent the abuse of this law to cruelty. And it cannot reasonably be supposed that both would agree without the son's abominable and incorr...
1 The expiation of an vncertaine murder. 10 The vsage of a captiue taken to wife. 15 The first borne is not to be disinherited vpon priuate affection. 18 A stubburne sonne is to bee stoned to death...
PUNISHMENT OF A REBELLIOUS CHILD...
then shall his father-and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, to the magistrates who were charged with upholding authority and therefore also with backing up the...
UNSOLVED MURDER (vs.1-9) If one was killed and his body found removed from any city or town, the murderer being unknown, then elders and judges of Israel were required to ascertain what was the near...
18-21 Observe how the criminal is here described. He is a stubborn and rebellious son. No child was to fare the worse for weakness of capacity, slowness, or dulness, but for wilfulness and obstinacy....
THE CONSENT OF BOTH FATHER AND MOTHER is required to prevent the abuse of this law to cruelty. And it cannot reasonably be supposed that both would agree without manifest necessity, and the son's abom...
"If one be found slain in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him; then _ thy elders_ and _ thy judges"_ the guardians of...
Deuteronomy 21:19 father H1 mother H517 hold H8610 (H8804) out H3318 (H8689) elders H2205 city H5892 gate...
REBELLION AGAINST PARENTAL AUTHORITY (DEUTERONOMY 21:18). Parental concern for the son as revealed in Deuteronomy 21:15 now leads on to the case where a son is a rebellious troublemaker. Again the des...
CONTENTS: Inquest for the slain. Domestic regulations. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: We are to have a dread of the guilt of blood, which defiles not only the conscience of the murderer but the...
Deuteronomy 21:4. _A rough valley._ The guilt being transferred to the heifer, the slaying it in a cultivated field would have polluted the ground. The Hebrew altar allowed of no victim to be offered...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 21:18 Breaking the fifth commandment (Deuteronomy 5:16) brought the death penalty. Parents were to report their own rebellious children to the authorit
CRITICAL NOTES.—The reason for grouping these five laws, apparently so different from one another, as well as for attaching them to the previous regulations is found in the desire to bring out distinc...
EXPOSITION EXPIATION OF UNCERTAIN MURDER. TREATMENT OF A CAPTIVE TAKEN TO WIFE. RIGHTS OF THE FIRSTBORN. A REBELLIOUS, REFRACTORY SON TO BE JUD
Now in the 21st chapter. If you find a dead body out in the field and you don't know the circumstances of the death; here's a man; he's dead in the field. Then they are to measure from that dead body...
Deuteronomy 16:18; Deuteronomy 21:2; Deuteronomy 25:7; Zechariah 13:3...
His father and mother — The consent of both is required to prevent the abuse of this law to cruelty. And it cannot reasonably be supposed that both would agree without the son's abominable and incorri...