Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Deuteronomy 21:18
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Verse Deuteronomy 21:18-5. _THE STUBBORN, REBELLIOUS, GLUTTONOUS, AND_ _DRUNKEN SON IS TO BE STONED TO DEATH_. - This law, severe as it may seem, must have acted as a powerful preventive of crime. If...
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...
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...
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 *)....
STUBBORN. rebellious. REBELLIOUS. refractory....
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...
_If a man have_ See introd. to Deuteronomy 21:15. _stubborn and rebellious_ Jeremiah 5:23; Psalms 78:8. _father or … mother_ Mark the equality of the parents, as in the next _v_., the Fifth Comm. and
_VER._ 18, &C. _IF A MAN HAVE A STUBBORN AND REBELLIOUS SON_— Ample provision having been made for the security of private rights between neighbour and neighbour, Moses made another law for the regula...
(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...
_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...
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...
Children have rights, as the last passage shows, but they have also duties. The punishment of an incorrigible son is very severe. The State is regarded as having an interest in the proper upbringing o...
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...
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...
כִּֽי ־יִהְיֶ֣ה לְ אִ֗ישׁ בֵּ֚ן סֹורֵ֣ר וּ
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...
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...
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his (k) mother, and [that], when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: (k) For...
Son. The Rabbins do not look upon children as bound by the law, till they be 13 years old. Their faults, before that age, are imputed to the father, and he is to be punished for them. When, therefore,...
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...
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...
18._If a man have a stubborn_. What God had previously adverted to in two clauses, tie now embraces in a general law, for it cannot be doubted but that by rebellious children all are designated who ar...
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...
IF A MAN HAVE A STUBBORN AND REBELLIOUS SON,.... It is observed w that this law quickly follows, and is subjoined to that which relates to the marriage of a woman taken captive, because often from suc...
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...
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, disputing the parental authority in disposition and deed, WHICH WILL NOT OBEY THE VOICE OF HIS FATHER OR THE VOICE OF HIS MOTHER, being incorrigibly disobe...
PUNISHMENT OF A REBELLIOUS CHILD...
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...
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....
"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...
Deuteronomy 21:18 man H376 stubborn H5637 (H8802) rebellious H4784 (H8802) son H1121 obey H8085 (H8802) voi
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
EXPOSITION EXPIATION OF UNCERTAIN MURDER. TREATMENT OF A CAPTIVE TAKEN TO WIFE. RIGHTS OF THE FIRSTBORN. A REBELLIOUS, REFRACTORY SON TO BE JUD
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...
2 Samuel 7:14; Amos 4:11; Amos 4:12; Deuteronomy 27:16; Deuteronomy 8:5