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The formal accusation of parents against a child was to be received
without inquiry, as being its own proof. Thus the just authority of
the parents is recognized and effectually upheld (compare Exodus...
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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...
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Peculiar to D. Here respect for _both_ parents is enforced (see Exodus
20:12; Exodus 21:15); _cf._ CH. § 195, The son's hand which has
smitten his _father_ shall be cut off (see Deuteronomy 15:12 *)....
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GLUTTON, &C. Compare Matthew 11:19....
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Of a Disobedient Son
If a man have a son, who, in spite of his parents" rebuke, fails to
obey them (Deuteronomy 21:18), they shall bring him forth to the gate,
and state the case to the elders of the...
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_elders_ Sam. LXX, _men_.
_riotous liver_ Better, PRODIGAL, lit. one who _lavishes_or
_squanders_, Proverbs 23:20 (with _flesh_, a glutton) and 21, parallel
to _drunkard_as here; Deuteronomy 28:7: _a...
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_VER._ 20. _HE IS A GLUTTON AND A DRUNKARD_— Under these words are
comprehended all other riotous courses. He was not to suffer for these
vices only, but for stubbornly persisting in them, in spite of...
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(2) THE TREATMENT OF STUBBORN SONS (Deuteronomy 21:18-21)
18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the
voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and though they
chaste...
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_IF A MAN HAVE A STUBBORN AND REBELLIOUS SON, WHICH WILL NOT OBEY THE
VOICE OF HIS FATHER, OR THE VOICE OF HIS MOTHER, AND THAT, WHEN THEY
HAVE CHASTENED HIM, WILL NOT HEARKEN UNTO THEM:_
If a man ha...
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21:20 profligate (i-27) Or 'glutton,' as Proverbs 23:20 ('riotous
eaters'), and 21....
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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...
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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...
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Deuteronomy 21:18. THE INCORRIGIBLE SON.
(18) IF A MAN HAVE A STUBBORN AND REBELLIOUS SON. — Here we are
again reminded that the Law of Jehovah was also the civil and criminal
law of Israel. The syste...
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וְ אָמְר֞וּ אֶל ־זִקְנֵ֣י עִירֹ֗ו
בְּנֵ֤נוּ ז
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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...
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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...
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CHAPTER XXI....
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It is very worthy observation; how exceedingly jealous the LORD hath
manifested himself for the honor of his law. The ties of nature were
all to give way when the honour of GOD stood in competition. S...
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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...
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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...
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AND THEY SHALL SAY UNTO THE ELDERS OF HIS CITY,.... In open court,
what follows, at the same time, according to the Targum of Jonathan,
acknowledging their own sins, for which such a calamity had befa...
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And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son [is]
stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; [he is] a
glutton, and a drunkard.
Ver. 20. _He is a glutton._] The same word is...
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_A glutton and a drunkard_ Under which two offences others of a like
or worse nature are comprehended....
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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...
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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...
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18-21 Observe how the criminal is here described. He is a stubborn
and rebellious son. No child was to fare the worse for weakness of
capacity, slowness, or dulness, but for wilfulness and obstinacy....
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STUBBORN AND REBELLIOUS, adds incorrigibleness to all his wickedness.
A GLUTTON AND A DRUNKARD; under which two offences others of a like or
worse nature are comprehended by a synecdoche....
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"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...
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Deuteronomy 21:20 say H559 (H8804) elders H2205 city H5892 son H1121
stubborn H5637 (H8802) rebellious H4784
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REBELLION AGAINST PARENTAL AUTHORITY (DEUTERONOMY 21:18).
Parental concern for the son as revealed in Deuteronomy 21:15 now
leads on to the case where a son is a rebellious troublemaker. Again
the des...
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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...
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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...
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DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 21:18 Breaking the fifth commandment
(Deuteronomy 5:16) brought the death penalty. Parents were to report
their own rebellious children to the authorit
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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...
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EXPOSITION
EXPIATION OF UNCERTAIN MURDER. TREATMENT OF A CAPTIVE TAKEN TO WIFE.
RIGHTS OF THE FIRSTBORN. A REBELLIOUS, REFRACTORY SON TO BE JUD
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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...
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Proverbs 19:26; Proverbs 20:1; Proverbs 23:19; Proverbs 23:29;...
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A glutton and a drunkard — Under which two offences others of a like
or worse nature are comprehended....