The infinitude of the divine mercy is beautifully illustrated in Jeremiah 3:1, where God takes back those who have broken His covenant and have repented. His ways are higher than our ways (see also Hosea 1-3).
Verse Deuteronomy 24:4. _SHE IS DEFILED_] Does not this refer to her having been divorced, and married in consequence to another? Though God, for the hardness of their hearts, suffered them to put aw...
In this and the next chapter certain particular rights and duties, domestic, social, and civil, are treated. The cases brought forward have often no definite connection, and seem selected in order to...
20. CONCERNING DIVORCE AND LAWS OF MERCY CHAPTER 24 _ 1. Concerning divorce (Deuteronomy 24:1)_ 2. Concerning pledge and slavery (Deuteronomy 24:6) 3. Concerning leprosy (Deuteronom
The right of divorce on man's part (not woman's) is taken for granted here and elsewhere in the OT (see Deuteronomy 22:19; Deuteronomy 22:29; Leviticus 21:7;...
MAY NOT TAKE HER AGAIN. Compare Jeremiah 3:1.Isaiah 50:1. SIN. See App-44. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4....
_after that she is defiled_ Ambiguous indeed, as the most carefully chosen terms of some laws often are. But the natural meaning is that she is unclean to the former husband by her union with the latt...
_VER._ 4. _HER FORMER HUSBAND—MAY NOT TAKE HER AGAIN_— To restrain them from the abuse of this permission, the law provides, that the husband, who had once put away his wife, should, upon her being ma...
(6) DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE (Deuteronomy 24:1-4) When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that h...
_AND WHEN SHE IS DEPARTED OUT OF HIS HOUSE, SHE MAY GO AND BE ANOTHER MAN'S WIFE._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
24:4 defiled; (a-21) Or 'been made to defile herself.'...
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 24 V1 ‘Suppose that a man marries a woman. Later, he decides that She does not please him. He f...
XXIV. Deuteronomy 24:1. DIVORCE. Some uncleanness. — Evidently mere caprice and dislike are not intended here. There must be some real ground of complaint. (See Margin.) LET HIM WRITE HER A BILL OF...
לֹא ־יוּכַ֣ל בַּעְלָ֣הּ הָ רִאשֹׁ֣ון אֲשֶֽׁר...
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...
Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is (b) defiled; for that [is] abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, whic...
Defiled. This insinuates that the second marriage was a real adultery, (Calmet) and only tolerated by the law to prevent greater evils. (Haydock) --- It might be said indeed that the woman was defiled...
Our blessed LORD'S comment upon this law throws a full light upon the subject of divorces in general. The permission of such acts, carries with it the evidence of the hardness of the human heart. Matt...
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 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...
HER FORMER HUSBAND WHICH SENT HER AWAY MAY NOT TAKE HER AGAIN TO BE HIS WIFE,.... Though ever so desirous of it, and having heartily repented that he had put her away: this is the punishment of his fi...
Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that [is] abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which th...
_Her former husband may not take her again_ This is the punishment of his levity and injustice in putting her away without sufficient cause, which, by this offer, he now acknowledgeth. _Defiled_ Not a...
1 Of diuorce. 5 A new maried man goeth not to warre. 6.10 Of pledges. 7 Of manstealers. 8 Of leprosie. 14 The hire is to be giuen. 16 Of Iustice. 19 Of Charitie. 1 WHEN [NOTE: Matthew 5:31; Matt...
her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after that she is defiled, for that is what her second marriage amounted to, so far as her first husband was concerned; i...
CHIEFLY OF DIVORCE, PLEDGES, AND LEPROSY...
DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE (vs.1-4) Under law there were cases such as often arise similarly at any time. A man may marry a woman and afterwards be thoroughly dissatisfied with her. This is a warning to...
1-4 Where the providence of God, or his own wrong choice in marriage, has allotted to a Christian a trial instead of a help meet; he will from his heart prefer bearing the cross, to such relief as ten...
This is the punishment of his levity and injustice in putting her away without sufficient cause, which by this offer he now acknowledgeth. AFTER THAT SHE IS DEFILED; not simply and absolutely, as if h...
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 24:4 former H7223 husband H1167 divorced H7971 (H8765) must H3201 (H8799) take H3947 (H8800) back
CHAPTER 24 REGULATION ON THE RESULT OF DIVORCE AND ON FAIR DEALING AND CONSIDERATION FOR OTHERS. REGULATION ON DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE WITH THE SAME WOMAN (DEUTERONOMY 24:1). This regulation caused mu...
CONTENTS: Law concerning divorce; miscellaneous regulations. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: It is of great consequence that love be kept up between husband and wife and that everything be caref...
Deuteronomy 24:1. _Some uncleanness;_ not adultery, but leprosy, secret infirmities, or insupportable wickedness. Moses, says our Saviour; because of the hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put a...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 24:1 By charging his wife with SOME INDECENCY, the first husband acquired her dowry—her father’s marriage present to her—when he divorced her. If she then remarried, sh...
CRITICAL _Notes_.—In this chapter certain duties social and domestic are chosen to illustrate the general application of the law. DEUTERONOMY 24:1. Relation of man and wife. Divorce. The verses are hy...
EXPOSITION LAWS RESPECTING DIVORCE, AGAINST MAN-STEALING AND INJUSTICE. DEUTERONOMY 24:1 _Of divorce_._ _If a man put away his wife because she did not any longer please him, and she became the wife...
Now, When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she finds no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorceme...
Jeremiah 3:1; Joshua 22:17; Joshua 22:18; Leviticus 18:24...
May not — This is the punishment of his levity and injustice in putting her away without sufficient cause, which by this offer he now acknowledgeth. Defiled — Not absolutely, as if her second marriage...
Is Moses’ teaching on divorce contrary to the teaching of Jesus and Paul? PROBLEM: According to Deuteronomy 24:1-4, a man was allowed to divorce his wife if he had found her to be unfaithful. However,...