Deuteronomy 25:1
_IF THERE BE A CONTROVERSY BETWEEN MEN, AND THEY COME UNTO JUDGMENT, THAT THE JUDGES MAY JUDGE THEM; THEN THEY SHALL JUSTIFY THE RIGHTEOUS, AND CONDEMN THE WICKED._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_IF THERE BE A CONTROVERSY BETWEEN MEN, AND THEY COME UNTO JUDGMENT, THAT THE JUDGES MAY JUDGE THEM; THEN THEY SHALL JUSTIFY THE RIGHTEOUS, AND CONDEMN THE WICKED._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT SHALL BE, IF THE WICKED MAN BE WORTHY TO BE BEATEN, THAT THE JUDGE SHALL CAUSE HIM TO LIE DOWN, AND TO BE BEATEN BEFORE HIS FACE, ACCORDING TO HIS FAULT, BY A CERTAIN NUMBER._ Worthy to be beaten. In judicial sentences which awarded punishment short of capital, scourging was the most common... [ Continue Reading ]
_FORTY STRIPES HE MAY GIVE HIM, AND NOT EXCEED: LEST, IF HE SHOULD EXCEED, AND BEAT HIM ABOVE THESE WITH MANY STRIPES, THEN THY BROTHER SHOULD SEEM VILE UNTO THEE._ Lest, if he should exceed ... then thy brother should seem vile unto thee. It may, perhaps, be thought that this mode of punishment wa... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU SHALT NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHEN HE TREADETH OUT THE CORN._ Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. In Judea, as in modern Syria and Egypt, the larger grains, wheat, barley, and rice, were not threshed, but beaten out by the feet of oxen, which, yoked together, trode round day... [ Continue Reading ]
_IF BRETHREN DWELL TOGETHER, AND ONE OF THEM DIE, AND HAVE NO CHILD, THE WIFE OF THE DEAD SHALL NOT MARRY WITHOUT UNTO A STRANGER: HER HUSBAND'S BROTHER SHALL GO IN UNTO HER, AND TAKE HER TO HIM TO WIFE, AND PERFORM THE DUTY OF AN HUSBAND'S BROTHER UNTO HER._ Her husband's brother shall ... take he... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEN MEN STRIVE TOGETHER ONE WITH ANOTHER AND THE WIFE OF THE ONE DRAWETH NEAR FOR TO DELIVER HER_ _ WHEN MEN STRIVE TOGETHER ONE WITH ANOTHER, AND THE WIFE OF THE ONE DRAWETH NEAR FOR TO DELIVER HER HUSBAND OUT OF THE HAND OF HIM THAT SMITETH HIM, AND PUTTETH FORTH HER HAND, AND TAKETH HIM BY THE... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU SHALT NOT HAVE IN THY BAG DIVERS WEIGHTS, A GREAT AND A SMALL._ Thou shalt not have ... divers weights, х_ 'EBEN_ (H68) _ WAA'AABEN_ (H68)] - 'a stone and a stone' [Septuagint, stathmion kai stathmion]; a just and false, or a light and heavy one. Weights were anciently made of stone; and the... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU SHALT NOT HAVE IN THINE HOUSE DIVERS MEASURES, A GREAT AND A SMALL._ Divers measures, х_ 'EEYPAAH_ (H374) _ Wª'EEYPAAH_ (H374)] - 'an ephah and an ephah,' which was the common and standard measure in Israel [Septuagint, metron kai metron].... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THOU SHALT HAVE A PERFECT AND JUST WEIGHT, A PERFECT AND JUST MEASURE SHALT THOU HAVE: THAT THY DAYS MAY BE LENGTHENED IN THE LAND WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_REMEMBER WHAT AMALEK DID UNTO THEE BY THE WAY, WHEN YE WERE COME FORTH OUT OF EGYPT;_ Remember what Amalek did ... how he met thee - i:e., stealthily and in hostile encounter. This cold-blooded and dastardly atrocity is not narrated in the previous history (Exodus 17:14). It was an unprovoked outr... [ Continue Reading ]