Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Exodus 22:20
Verse Exodus 22:20. Utterly destroyed.] The word חרם cherem denotes a thing utterly and finally separated from God and devoted to destruction, without the possibility of redemption.
Verse Exodus 22:20. Utterly destroyed.] The word חרם cherem denotes a thing utterly and finally separated from God and devoted to destruction, without the possibility of redemption.
This was probably an old formula, the sense of which, on its ethical side, is comprised in the first and second commandments. SHALL BE UTTERLY DESTROYED - The Hebrew word here used is חרם _châram_ ...
CHAPTER 22 FURTHER JUDGMENTS _ 1. Concerning theft (Exodus 22:1)_ 2. Concerning neglect in case of fire (Exodus 22:6) 3. Concerning dishonesty (Exodus 22:7) 4. Concerning immoralities and forbidde...
EXODUS 22:18 E. VARIOUS ORDINANCES. From this point up to Exodus 23:9 we have to do with miscellaneous laws, differing in the main both in form and substance from the Judgments, and therefore here reg...
SACRIFLEETH. Hebrew. _cabach._ App-43....
Sacrifice by an Israelite to any god save Jehovah to be punished with the ban. Jehovah is a -jealous God" (Exodus 20:5), who does not tolerated the worship of any other god beside Himself. _utterly de...
Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33 _The Book of the Covenant_ The -Book of the Covenant" (see Exodus 24:7 in explanation of the name) is the oldest piece of Hebrew legislation that we possess. The laws co...
HE THAT SACRIFICETH— A particular species of worship is here used to express worship in general: it means, he that payeth any religious honour,—_shall be utterly destroyed;_ delivered to death, Deuter...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 22 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. (2) If the thief be found breaking in,...
_HE THAT SACRIFICETH UNTO ANY GOD, SAVE UNTO THE LORD ONLY, HE SHALL BE UTTERLY DESTROYED._ He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only. Yahweh being the sole object of religious adorat...
THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT (CONTINUED) 1. Four sheep] The larger compensation required in the case of the ox is probably due to the fact that it is an animal used for labour, and of proportionately hig...
EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 22 LAWS ABOUT PROPERTY – VERSES 1-15 V1 The *LORD continued to spe...
HE THAT SACRIFICETH. — Sacrifice in this place represents worship generally, being its most essential act. Elsewhere the death-penalty is affixed to any acknowledgment of false gods (Deuteronomy 13:1)...
MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. (16-31) The remainder of the chapter contains laws which it is impossible to bring under any general head or heads, and which can, therefore, only be regarded as miscellaneous. Mo...
_[Exodus 22:19]_ זֹבֵ֥חַ לָ † אֱלֹהִ֖ים יָֽחֳרָ֑ם...
CHAPTER XXII. _ THE LESSER LAW (continued)._ PART IV. Exodus 22:16 - Exodus 23:19. The Fourth section of this law within the law consists of enactments, curiously disconnected, many of them without...
The laws of property follow. The section really begins with verse Exo 21:33 of the previous chapter. These laws also began by laying emphasis on the guilt of carelessness. The truth emphasized is that...
_Death. Hebrew, "shall be anathema," ( erom) which denotes utter destruction both of the person and of his goods. (Jonathan) (1 Kings xv. 3.)_...
This refers to the first table. See Exodus 20:5....
"In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. But having thus terminated the course of grace, the scene changes entirely. They do not keep the feast on the mountain, whither God, as He had...
HE THAT SACRIFICETH UNTO [ANY] GOD,.... To Elohim, to strange gods, to the idols of the people, as the Targum of Jonathan; to the Egyptian deities, to the gods of the Moabites, Amorites, Edomites, Can...
He that sacrificeth unto [any] god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed. Ver. 20. _He shall be utterly destroyed._] As an execrable and accursed creature....
1 Of theft. 5 Of dammage. 7 Of trespasses. 14.Of borrowing. 16 Of fornication. 18 Of witchcraft. 19 Of bestialitie. 20 Of idolatrie. 21 Of strangers, widowes, and fatherlesse. 25 Of vsurie. 2...
He that sacriftceth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed. Since the government of the children of Israel was a theocracy, under the direct rule of Jehovah, the idolater...
REGARDING VARIOUS SOCIAL RELATIONS...
C. FIRST FORM OF THE LAW OF THE POLITICAL COMMONWEALTH Exodus 21:1 to Exodus 23:33 _a. Right of Personal Freedom (according to Bertheau, ten in number)_ 1Now these _are_ the judgments [ordinances] w...
LAWS AS REGARDS PROPERTY (vs.1-15) While one rightly was control over his own property, yet he is also responsible as to how he uses it. If one were to dig a pit, even on his own property, and leave...
SACRIFICETH, or otherwise worshippeth, as appears from DEUTERONOMY 17:2, and many other places. One act of worship put for all by a very familiar synecdoche. DESTROYED, Heb. _anathematized_, i.e. este...
The study of this section of our book is eminently calculated to impress the heart with a sense d God's unsearchable wisdom and infinite goodness. It enables one to form some idea of the character of...
Exodus 22:20 sacrifices H2076 (H8802) god H430 except H1115 LORD H3068 destroyed H2763 (H8714) sacrificeth -...
SUNDRY REGULATIONS (EXODUS 22:18 TO EXODUS 23:9). The regulations that follow are mainly apodictic, direct commands made specifically by God requiring total obedience. As such they are not paralleled...
EXPANSION OF THE TEN WORDS OF THE COVENANT (EXODUS 20:22 TO EXODUS 23:33). In this section, which is composed of elements put together mainly in chiastic form (see later), Yahweh expands on the Ten W...
CONTENTS: Judgments on rights of property; crimes against humanity. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Man's attitude to his fellow man will be based on his attitude to God and His law. KEY WORD:...
Exodus 22:2. _Breaking up,_ by forcible entrance into a house, _there shall no blood be shed for him,_ though he be killed by another in his own defence. In that case the thief might be presumed to ha...
_SUGGESTIVE COMMENTS ON THE VERSES_ WITCHCRAFT.—_Exodus 22:18_ The term is here used to represent the whole class of wizards, necromancers, and diviners with which the world has been infested from a...
EXPOSITION MISCELLANEOUS LAWS (Exodus 22:16-2) EXODUS 22:16, EXODUS 22:17 _Laws against seduction_. It has been
EXPOSITION II. LAWS CONNECTED WITH RIGHTS OF PROPERTY (verses 33-36). From the consideration of injuries to the person, the legislator proceeds to treat of injuries to property, and, as he has been sp...
If a man shall steal an ox, and kill it, [The rustlers] and sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, four sheep for a sheep (Exodus 22:1). You see in those days they were interested in taking ca...
sacrificeth Numbers 21:3 Joshua 23:15 Joshua 23:16...