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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Deuteronomy 21:1

CONTENTS

Provision is made in this chapter for various circumstances, of such things as might arise in the government of Israel. Here are appointments for the discovery of murder: for the marriage of captives taken in war: for preserving the birthright of inheritance to the eldest son of a wife not beloved: for the punishment by stoning of a rebellious son: and for the taking down the bodies of malefactors before sun-set. Such are the contents of this chapter.

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See also Deuteronomy 21:1 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER XXI _If a man be found slain in a field, and the cause of his death_ _be unknown, the murder shall be expiated by the sacrifice of a_ _heifer in an uncultivated valley_, 1-4. _The rites to...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    17. THE EXPIATION OF AN UNCERTAIN MURDER AND VARIOUS INSTRUCTIONS CHAPTER 21 _ 1. The expiation of an unknown murder (Deuteronomy 21:1)_ 2. Concerning a wife, who had been a prisoner of war (Deuter...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    See W. R. Smith, _Kinship_ 1 p. 263 (= 64f. in _Kinship_ 2) for a similar law among the ancient Arabs. The ground of this law may be the belief that, until avenged or atoned for, a murdered man's bloo...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. LYING. fallen down....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _If one be found_ So Deuteronomy 17:2; Deuteronomy 24:7, also Sg. passages. _which the Lord thy God_ IS TO GIVE _thee_ see on Deuteronomy 19:14. _lying_ Heb. _falling_but wit

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    (b) Expiation for an Unknown Murderer's Crime (Deuteronomy 21:1-9) If one be found slain in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath s...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _IF ONE BE FOUND SLAIN IN THE LAND WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE TO POSSESS IT, LYING IN THE FIELD, AND IT BE NOT KNOWN WHO HATH SLAIN HIM:_ If one be found slain ... lying in the field. The cer...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    EXPIATION OF UNDETECTED HOMICIDE. MARRIAGE OF CAPTIVE WOMEN. PUNISHMENT OF A REBELLIOUS SON The last sub-section of the Second Discourse begins here, containing a variety of social and domestic regul...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 21 V1 ‘Suppose that there has been a murder. Then someone finds the dead body in a field. It is...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XXI. Deuteronomy 21:1. UNDETECTED HOMICIDES. (1) IF ONE BE FOUND SLAIN — It is remarkable that _in_ our own time the most effectual remedy against outrages of which the perpetrators cannot be discov...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּי ־יִמָּצֵ֣א חָלָ֗ל בָּ † אֲדָמָה֙ אֲשֶׁר֩...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF ISRAELITE LIFE IT has often and justly been said that the life of Israel is so entirely founded on the grace and favor of God that no distinction is made between the secular an...

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

    Sundry laws affecting the life of the people in the land after the conquest were now uttered. The sin of murder was once again dealt with. This time it was the murder of a person which could not be tr...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    If [one] be found (a) slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, [and] it be not known who hath slain him: (a) This law declares how horrible murder is, s...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Land. The Jewish doctors hence infer, that if the corpse was found hanging or drowned &c., or nearer a town of the Gentiles than one of the Israelites, this law did not oblige. They are so exact as to...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    1._If one be found slain in the land_. This Supplement: is of a mixed character, relating partly to the civil, and partly to the criminal law. We are informed by it how precious to God is the life of...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19, 20, AND 21. Chapter 19 opens with ordinances which contemplate the people in possession and enjoyment of the land; they were to observe them, that the la...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    IF ONE BE FOUND SLAIN,.... After public war with an enemy, Moses proceeds to speak of a private quarrel and fight of one man with another, in which one is slain, as Aben Ezra observes: IN THE LAND WH...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    If [one] be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, [and] it be not known who hath slain him: Ver. 1. _In the field._] Or elsewhere; the field is...

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

    _Lying in the field_ Or, in the city, or any place: only the field is named as the place where such murders are most commonly committed. _Thy elders and judges_ Those of thy elders who are judges: the...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The expiation of an vncertaine murder. 10 The vsage of a captiue taken to wife. 15 The first borne is not to be disinherited vpon priuate affection. 18 A stubburne sonne is to bee stoned to death...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    If one be found slain in the land which the Lord, thy God, giveth thee to possess it, somewhere out in the open, on the soil, LYING IN THE FIELD, where the murderer had left or dragged him, AND IT BE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CASE OF AN UNKNOWN MURDER...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    UNSOLVED MURDER (vs.1-9) If one was killed and his body found removed from any city or town, the murderer being unknown, then elders and judges of Israel were required to ascertain what was the near...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 If a murderer could not be found out, great solemnity is provided for putting away the guilt from the land, as an expression of dread and detesting of that sin. The providence of God has often wo...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 21 How to expiate an uncertain murder, DEUTERONOMY 21:1. The usage of a captive taken to wife, DEUTERONOMY 21:10. The first born, though the son of the hated, is not to be disinher...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "If one be found slain in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him; then _ thy elders_ and _ thy judges"_ the guardians of...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 21:1 found H4672 (H8735) slain H2491 lying H5307 (H8802) field H7704 land H127 LORD H3068 God...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    REGULATION CONCERNING VIOLENT DEATH WHERE THE MURDERER IS NOT KNOWN (DEUTERONOMY 21:1). While for convenience we are splitting up Moses' speech into parts it should be noted that it is our arrangement...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Inquest for the slain. Domestic regulations. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: We are to have a dread of the guilt of blood, which defiles not only the conscience of the murderer but the...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Deuteronomy 21:4. _A rough valley._ The guilt being transferred to the heifer, the slaying it in a cultivated field would have polluted the ground. The Hebrew altar allowed of no victim to be offered...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _If one be found slain._ GOD’S VALUE OF INDIVIDUAL LIFE “This narrative,” says one, “sets forth the preciousness of human life in the sight of God.” Dr. Jamieson believes this singular statute conce...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 21:1 IN THE LAND. These laws will keep the Promised Land free from being unclean. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.—The reason for grouping these five laws, apparently so different from one another, as well as for attaching them to the previous regulations is found in the desire to bring out distinc...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION EXPIATION OF UNCERTAIN MURDER. TREATMENT OF A CAPTIVE TAKEN TO WIFE. RIGHTS OF THE FIRSTBORN. A REBELLIOUS, REFRACTORY SON TO BE JUD

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in the 21st chapter. If you find a dead body out in the field and you don't know the circumstances of the death; here's a man; he's dead in the field. Then they are to measure from that dead body...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 28:4; Isaiah 26:21; Proverbs 28:17; Psalms 5:6; Psalms 9:12...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The field — Or, in the city, or any place: only the field is named, as the place where such murders are most commonly committed....

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