Deuteronomy 23:1
CONGREGATION. assembly.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONGREGATION. assembly.... [ Continue Reading ]
MOABITE. Hebrew, masculine. Therefore not excluding Ruth the Moabitess. Matthew 1:5. Compare Ruth 1:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY HIRED. Compare Numbers 22:5.Jude 1:11. MESOPOTAMIA. Hebrew. Aram-Naharaim, i.e. "Syria of the two rivers".... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Targum of Onkelos, Syriac, Vulgate, read "But thou". THY BROTHER. The posterity of Esau. Genesis 25:25; Obadiah 1:10; Obadiah 1:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL ENTER INTO THE CONGREGATION, &C. The Massorah (App-30) quotes the Babylonian Codex, which reads "shall enter unto you in the assembly of Jehovah", by reading _lakem,_ "unto you" instead of the second _lakem_ which the Revised Version ignores, and the Authorized Version paraphrases. The present... [ Continue Reading ]
WICKED. See App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
WASH HIMSELF WITH WATER. See note on Leviticus 14:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
PADDLE. blade. WEAPON. staff. WILT EASE. Hebrew sit down. Beautiful _Euphemy_ (App-6), when dealing with physical uncleanness, but plain speaking when dealing with moral uncleanness.... [ Continue Reading ]
WALKETH. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. Compare Genesis 3:8; Leviticus 26:12. CAMP. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "camps". HOLY. separated. See note on Exodus 3:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHORE. sodomitess. Hebrew means one consecrated as such in connection with heathen worship. Hence her name _kedeshah,_. separated one. Compare 1 Kings 14:24. 1Ki 15:12. 1 Kings 22:46; Job 36:14 ("unclean". temple women). Hosea 4:14. The Laws of Khammurabi refer to these (181, 187, 192). SODOMITE. F... [ Continue Reading ]
WHORE. a prostitute. Hebrew. _zonah,_ different from Deuteronomy 23:17. DOG. Hebrew. _keleb_. but here, probably. _priest_ (of the above orgies), same as Arabic _kaleb._... [ Continue Reading ]
USURY. Compare Exodus 22:25.Leviticus 25:35.... [ Continue Reading ]
VOW. VOW. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6) make. solemn vow. Compare Numbers 30:2. SIN. See App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
AT THINE OWN PLEASURE. as thy soul [desireth], Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
STANDING CORN. Compare Matthew 12:1.... [ Continue Reading ]