Betrothal consisted in the settlement and payment of a dowry by the bridegroom to the father or brothers of the bride, and in presenting the bride with certain gifts: see on Exodus 22:16. It was regarded as sacredly as marriage itself. After betrothal, the bride was under the same restrictions as a wife, and if unfaithful was punished as an adulteress.
18. AGAINST INHUMANITY AND DIFFERENT VIOLATIONS, False Testimony and Sins of Adultery CHAPTER 22 _ 1. Laws against inhumanity (Deuteronomy 22:1)_ 2. Concerning false testimony (Deuteronomy 22:13)...
SINS AGAINST PURE MARRIAGES. Deuteronomy 22:14. tokens of virginity: their absence is now known not to be necessarily a proof of pre-nuptial unchastity, though the ancient peoples held the contrary, a...
BETROTHED. This, taken with "wife" (Deuteronomy 22:24) ex plains Matthew 1:19; Matthew 1:20....
_betrothed_ see on Deuteronomy 20:7. _in the city_ Cp. Deuteronomy 22:24. In the city she would have been heard had she cried, but as she did not she must have been a consenting party....
Six Laws on Cases of Unchastity Of these the first five prescribe the procedure in criminal cases: 1st. Of a Husband's Charges against His Bride (Deuteronomy 22:13-21); 2nd. Of Adultery (Deuteronomy...
Of Intercourse with a Betrothed Virgin: (1) Deuteronomy 22:23 f., with her consent, in which case both she and the man are stoned, as in the case of Adultery (Deuteronomy 22:22), for the bride-price h...
(3) DEFILEMENT OF A MAIDEN BETROTHED (Deuteronomy 22:23-27) 23 If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; 24 then ye shall bring...
_IF ANY MAN TAKE A WIFE, AND GO IN UNTO HER, AND HATE HER,_ If any man take a wife ... The regulations that follow might be imperatively needful in the then situation of the Israelites; and yet it is...
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 22 V1 ‘You may see that your neighbour’s *ox or sheep is loose. If you do, you must not avoid i...
Deuteronomy 22:23. PURITY OF THE BETROTHED. (24) HIS NEIGHBOUR’S WIFE. — It is evident from the language of this precept that a betrothed virgin in Israel is regarded as _a wife._ The man who humbles...
כִּ֤י יִהְיֶה֙ _נַעֲרָ֣ה_† בְתוּלָ֔ה מְאֹרָשָׂ֖ה לְ אִ֑ישׁ
LAWS OF PURITY (CHASTITY AND MARRIAGE) IN dealing with the ten commandments it has been already shown that, though these great statements of religious and moral truth were to some extent inadequate as...
LAWS OF KINDNESS WITH the commands we now have to consider, we leave altogether the region of strict law, and enter entirely upon that of aspiration and of feeling. Kindness, by its very nature, elude...
Here we have the record of the laws conditioning life in love and neighborliness. Every man was enjoined to take care of his brother's lost things if he found them; and he was also to help the hurt an...
CHAPTER XXII....
Some of the laws in this book of Leviticus, were before given: Leviticus 20:10. The repetition in this place, only serves to intimate their importance. And it is a very solemn consideration, equally i...
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...
23._If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed_. The severity of the punishment is now extended further, and a betrothed woman is counted as a wife; and this for a very good reason, because she has pli...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22, 23, 24, AND 25. Chapter 22 appears to contain ordinances to guard the people from want of benevolence and mercy, and of that which would offend the sensib...
IF A DAMSEL THAT IS A VIRGIN BE BETROTHED UNTO AN HUSBAND,.... But not married, not as yet brought home to her husband's house, and the marriage consummated; for the Jews distinguish between being bet...
1 Of humanitie toward brethren. 5 The sexe is to bee distinguished by apparell. 6 The dam is not to be taken with her yong ones. 8 The house must haue battlements. 9 Confusion is to be auoyded. 1...
If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, in a rightful betrothal, as it was customary among the Jews, where the consent of the parents on either side and that of the girl had been se...
VARIOUS SINS AGAINST THE SANCTITY OF HOLY WEDLOCK...
LAWS THAT TEST TRUE DISCERNMENT (vs.1-12) The laws in this section require a proper consideration of God's creation, whether of humans, animals, birds or even inanimate things. This involves our disc...
13-30 These and the like regulations might be needful then, and yet it is not necessary that we should curiously examine respecting them. The laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint...
By this betrothing she had actually engaged herself to another man, and was in some sort his with, and therefore is sometimes so called, as GENESIS 29:21 MATTHEW 1:20....
The portion of our book on which we now enter, though not calling for elaborate exposition, yet teaches us two very important practical lessons In the first place, many of the institutions and ordinan...
Deuteronomy 22:23 woman H5291 virgin H1330 betrothed H781 (H8794) husband H376 man H376 finds H4672 (H8804) c
DEALING WITH SEXUAL MISBEHAVIOUR (DEUTERONOMY 22:22). Various aspect of sexual misbehaviour are dealt with in this passage with the most heinous at the beginning and the end. Analysis using the word...
THE PENALTY FOR ADULTERY (DEUTERONOMY 22:22). The accusation of the young woman, which was connected with possible adultery, now led on to an overall condemnation of adultery. Deuteronomy 22:22 ‘ If...
CONTENTS: Law of brotherhood, separation, unchaste wives and husbands. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Christianity teaches us to be neighborly and to be ready to do all good offices as we have...
Deuteronomy 22:5. _All that do so are abomination to the Lord._ The note of Maimonides here is, that men presenting themselves before Venus, appeared partially in female attire; and women presenting t...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 22:23 BETROTHED... WIFE. Betrothal was much more binding than modern engagement. The woman is called “wife” in v. Deu
CRITICAL NOTES.—The cases stated and provided for in Deuteronomy 22:1 seem selected by way of example, and belong, according to our notions, rather to ethics than to law. It in noteworthy that no pena...
EXPOSITION REGULATIONS REGARDING CATTLE STRAYED OR THINGS LOST, THE APPAREL OF THE SEXES, THE TAKING OF BIRDS, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF
Now in chapter twenty-two, now in those days they punished people for none involvement. If you saw your brother's ox or his sheep going astray, and you just try to ignore it: [you don't go out and get...
Deuteronomy 20:7; Matthew 1:18; Matthew 1:19...