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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Leviticus 20:10

The man that committeth adultery— The Hebrew word may signify all kinds of uncleanness; yet here it does, and must, properly, signify adultery; a crime held so detestable by all nations, that there were few in ancient times that did not reckon it capital. Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans held it alike enormous. Is it not strange, that in our laws we punish a petty robbery with death; and suffer adultery to go wholly unpunished?

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See also Leviticus 20:10 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Leviticus 20:10. _COMMITTETH ADULTERY_] To what has been said in _Clarke's note on "_Exodus 20:14_"_, we may add, that the word _adultery_ comes from the Latin _adulterium_, which is compounded...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Directions on the whole similar to those of Leviticus 18:6-20; Leviticus 18:22-23, but adding penalties for transgression....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    (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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SHALL BE SURELY PUT TO DEATH — That is, by stoning. (See Leviticus 20:2.) This precept is also to be found in Exodus 21:17; Proverbs 20:20, and is referred to by our Lord ...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אִ֗ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֤ר יִנְאַף֙ אֶת ־אֵ֣שֶׁת אִ֔יש

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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,...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Adulteress. Philo (de Josephus) says, whoever discovered a man in the very act, might kill him; and the Roman law allowed the same liberty, impune necato. But God requires a juridical process, and wit...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE MAN THAT COMMITTETH ADULTERY WITH [ANOTHER] MAN'S WIFE,.... Which is a breach of the seventh command, Exodus 20:14; [EVEN HE] THAT COMMITTETH ADULTERY WITH HIS NEIGHBOUR'S WIFE: which is only...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the man that committeth adultery with [another] man's wife, [even he] that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. Ver. 10. _...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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 econom...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    FOR UNLAWFUL MARRIAGES...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor's wife, who, according to Leviticus 18:20, is restricted to her husband, so far as sexu...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Leviticus 20:10 man H376 adultery H5003 (H8799) mans H376 wife H802 adultery H5003 (H8799) neighbors H7453 wife...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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 ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Samuel 12:13; Deuteronomy 22:22; Ezekiel 23:45; John 8:4; John 8:5

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