Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Leviticus 18:16
This law was not absolute, the so-called levirate marriage, or marriage with the widow of a deceased brother, being not only permissible but almost compulsory: see on Deuteronomy 25:5.
This law was not absolute, the so-called levirate marriage, or marriage with the widow of a deceased brother, being not only permissible but almost compulsory: see on Deuteronomy 25:5.
Verse Leviticus 18:16. _THY BROTHER'S WIFE_] This was an illegal marriage, unless the brother died _childless_. In that case it was not only lawful for her to marry her brother-in-law, but _he_ was _o...
THY BROTHER’S WIFE - That is, if she had children. See Deuteronomy 25:5. The law here expressed was broken by Antipas in his connection with Herodias Matthew 14:3....
V. PRACTICAL HOLINESS IN DAILY LIFE 1. Different Unholy Relationships CHAPTER 18 _ 1. Separation and obedience (Leviticus 18:1)_ 2. Unholy relationships (Leviticus 18:6) 3. Vile and abominable pr...
FORBIDDEN DEGREES OF MARRIAGE. After a general preface (Leviticus 18:6) the relationships are given in detail. The phrase uncover the nakedness is almost confined to Leviticus 17-20, Ezek., and Genesi...
Laws dealing with various Moral Subjects These three chs. contain features common to two or all three of them, which are found nowhere else in the Pentateuch. Such are (1) a collection of laws combin...
PROHIBITED MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIPS 18:6-18 TEXT 18:6-18 6 None of you shall approach to any that are near of kin to him, to uncover _their_ nakedness: I am Jehovah. 7 The nakedness of thy father, e...
_THOU SHALT NOT UNCOVER THE NAKEDNESS OF THY FATHER'S SISTER: SHE IS THY FATHER'S NEAR KINSWOMAN._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES....
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...
THE NAKEDNESS OF THY BROTHER’S WIFE. — Though alliance with a brother’s wife is here forbidden — the prohibition, according to the administrators of the law during the second Temple, extending to illi...
עֶרְוַ֥ת אֵֽשֶׁת ־אָחִ֖יךָ לֹ֣א תְגַלֵּ֑ה עֶרְוַ֥ת...
THE LAW OF HOLINESS: CHASTITY Leviticus 18:1 Chapter S 18, 19, and 20, by a formal introduction Leviticus 18:1 and a formal closing, Leviticus 20:22 are indicated as a distinct section, very commonly...
At this point in the enunciation of the laws of separation they assume a slightly altered character. So far, the fundamental matters of relationships to God have been the principal note. Now the habit...
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy (h) brother's wife: it [is] thy brother's nakedness. (h) Because the idolaters, among whom God's people had dwelt and would dwell, were given to these horr...
_Brother; though she may be even divorced from him. (St. Augustine, q. 61.) If the brother were dead without offspring, the next relation was bound to marry her; (Deuteronomy xxv. 5) and the kinsman o...
These precepts, considered in a moral sense, carry with them conviction of their own propriety. And if explained spiritually, they serve to convey this idea, that the souls who are taken into covenant...
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...
16._Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife_. They are bad (92) interpreters who raise a controversy on this passage, and expound it, that a brother’s wife must not be taken from hi...
Chapter 18 keeps them from dishonouring themselves in the things which belong to nature itself-to what man ought to be in his natural relations, that he might not dishonour himself. Man ought not to d...
THOU SHALT NOT UNCOVER THE NAKEDNESS OF THY BROTHER'S WIFE,.... Neither debauch her nor after the death of the brother marry her, that is, unless he dies without issue; and then, by another law, he wa...
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it [is] thy brother's nakedness. Ver. 16. Brother's wife.] Except in that special case. Deu 25:5 This was Herod's sin Mat 14:4 and our Henr...
_Thy brother's wife_ Unless he died childless, for in that case God afterward commanded that a man should marry his brother's widow, Deuteronomy 25:5. For the prohibiting of marriages in the more remo...
[VNLAWFULL MARRIAGES.] 1 Vnlawfull Marriages. 19 Vnlawfull lusts. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, saying, 2 Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, I am the LORD your God. 3 After...
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife, of the sister-in-law; IT IS THY BROTHER'S NAKEDNESS. This prohibition was intended only for such cases in which the brother had left childre...
UNLAWFUL MARRIAGES...
FORBIDDING SEXUAL SINS (VV. 1-30) Chapter 17 has dealt with sin directly against God; now chapter 18 speaks of sin in relationship with other creatures, primarily humans, but also animals (v. 23). Mos...
Neither in his lifetime, nor after his death, and therefore a woman might not marry her husband's brother, nor might a man marry his wife's sister, either before or after his wife's death, for so all...
LEVITICUS 20:1-27. This section sets before us, in a very remarkable manner, the personal sanctity and moral propriety which Jehovah looked for, on the part of those whom He had graciously introduced...
Leviticus 18:16 uncover H1540 (H8762) nakedness H6172 brothers H251 wife H802 brothers H251 nakedness H6172...
RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN FAMILIES (LEVITICUS 18:6). Leviticus 18:6 “None of you shall approach to any who are near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.” Firstly the initial principle...
CONTENTS: Relationship and walk of God's people. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Fleshly lusts war against the soul and will certainly be the ruin of it, if God's mercy and grace prevent not. K...
Leviticus 18:21. _Molech,_ or Moloch, was the chief idol of the Sabians, and of the Ammonites. 1 Kings 11:7; 1 Kings 11:33. To this idol Solomon built a high place on mount Olivet. The form of the ido...
_None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him._ CONSANGUINITY 1. God the institutor of marriage (Leviticus 18:6). 2. Faith in Christ not commanded in the law (Leviticus 18:5). 3. O...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 18:1 The Call to Holiness. This section applies the principle of holiness (Leviticus 19:1) to various aspects of Israelite life. Chapte
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 18:6 These laws prohibit sexual relations (APPROACH... TO UNCOVER NAKEDNESS), and therefore marriage, between people who are too closely related, either by blood (mother, s...
Incestuous Marriages: Domestic Purity SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 18:2.—Speak unto them and say, I am the Lord your God. Jehovah is the sole lawgiver, His word the one law to His people: ungodly cu...
PART III. SECTION III. EXPOSITION MORAL UNCLEANNESS AND ITS PUNISHMENT. This being the subject of the three following chapters (chapters 18-20), they naturally form a sequence to chapters 11-17, whic...
Here we find the term used over and over again, "For I am the Lord your God." So God wants a holy people. He tells them how they are to walk with them. "For I am the Lord your God", and actually layin...
Deuteronomy 25:5; Leviticus 20:21; Luke 3:19; Mark 12:19; Mark 6:17;...
Thy brother's wife — God afterwards commanded, that in one case, a man should marry his brother's widow....