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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Deuteronomy 24:6

The nether or the upper millstone, used in their handmills; of which see Exodus 11:5 Numbers 11:8 Jeremiah 25:10. Under this one kind he understands all other things necessary to get a livelihood, the taking away whereof is against the laws both of charity and prudence, seeing by those things alone he can be enabled both to subsist and to pay his debts. A man's life, i.e. his livelihood, or the necessary supports of his life.

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See also Deuteronomy 24:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 24:6. _THE NETHER OR THE UPPER MILL-STONE_] Small hand-mills which can be worked by a single person were formerly in use among the Jews, and are still used in many parts of the East...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Compare Exodus 22:25....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    20. CONCERNING DIVORCE AND LAWS OF MERCY CHAPTER 24 _ 1. Concerning divorce (Deuteronomy 24:1)_ 2. Concerning pledge and slavery (Deuteronomy 24:6) 3. Concerning leprosy (Deuteronom

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    XXIV. 6_ F_., 10- 13, which stood perhaps originally together, belong to the many humanitarian laws of D (Deuteronomy 15:12 *). Corn is still ground in the home in Palestine; this is done by the rotat...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MILLSTONE. Hand-mills found in every house. Corn ground daily. PLEDGE. Hebrew. _kabal =_ something tied up with. cord, hence the term bond (= bound); compare Ex. Deuteronomy 22:26, transferred to the...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Mill or Upper Millstone not to be taken in Pledge. This would be to pledge _life_itself. Milling (as largely still in Palestine) was mainly domestic, the first indispensable duty of the day; _the soun...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Deuteronomy 24:5 to Deuteronomy 25:4. Thirteen Laws of Equity and Humanity Besides the humane temper common to most of them, and a few cue-words, there are no apparent reasons for their being grouped...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 6. _NO MAN SHALL TAKE THE NETHER OR THE UPPER MILLSTONE TO PLEDGE_— This law is of the same merciful kind with that in Exodus 22:26 which is repeated in the following verses; and it is founded...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    (8) MILLSTONES NOT TO BE TAKEN IN PLEDGE (Deuteronomy 24:6) 6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh _a man'S_ life to pledge. THOUGHT QUESTIONS 24:6 412. What...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _NO MAN SHALL TAKE THE NETHER OR THE UPPER MILLSTONE TO PLEDGE: FOR HE TAKETH A MAN'S LIFE TO PLEDGE._ No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone. The "upper" stone, being concave, covers th...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    24:6 upper (c-9) i.e. the mobile stone; the lower part was fixed....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    LAWS REGARDING DIVORCE, PLEDGES, MAN-STEALING, LEPROSY, JUSTICE, AND GLEANING 1-4. The Law of Divorce. The right of the husband to divorce his wife is here acknowledged but is guarded against abuse....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    On the nature of the Eastern hand-mill see on Exodus 11:5; Exodus 22:26; Exodus 22:27. The mill is an indispensable domestic utensil; and, as neither of the stones is of any use without the other, to...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 24 V1 ‘Suppose that a man marries a woman. Later, he decides that She does not please him. He f...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE NETHER OR THE UPPER MILLSTONE. — Literally, _the two millstones, or even the upper one._ A MAN’S LIFE. — Literally, _a soul._ This word connects the two verses (6, 7)....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לֹא ־יַחֲבֹ֥ל רֵחַ֖יִם וָ רָ֑כֶב כִּי ־נֶ֖פֶש

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    LAWS OF KINDNESS WITH the commands we now have to consider, we leave altogether the region of strict law, and enter entirely upon that of aspiration and of feeling. Kindness, by its very nature, elude...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    No man shall take the nether or the upper (d) millstone to pledge: for he taketh [a man's] life to pledge. (d) Not anything by which a man gets his living....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Life, or the means of supporting himself. (Haydock) --- The upper millstone was deemed the lest necessary. In more ancient times it was customary to dry the wheat by fire, and afterwards to pound it i...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    This precept had much of mercy in it, because the nether, or upper mill-stone, was daily needed to grind the borrower's food. But, do I not see here a fence thrown up, to secure to a believer, his inh...

  • 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

    Deuteronomy 24:6_No man shall take the nether_. God now enforces another principle of equity in relation to loans, (not to be too strict (107)) in requiring pledges, whereby the poor are often exceedi...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22, 23, 24, AND 25. Chapter 22 appears to contain ordinances to guard the people from want of benevolence and mercy, and of that which would offend the sensib...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    NO MAN SHALL TAKE THE NETHER OR THE UPPER MILLSTONE TO PLEDGE,.... The first word being of the dual number takes in both stones, wherefore Vatablus renders the words, "ye shall not take for a pledge...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh [a man's] life to pledge. Ver. 6. A man's life.] That is, his livelihood. A poor man in his house is like a snail in his s...

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

    _Millstone_ Used in their hand-mills. Under this he understands all other things necessary to get a livelihood, the taking away whereof is against the laws both of charity and prudence, seeing by thos...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Of diuorce. 5 A new maried man goeth not to warre. 6.10 Of pledges. 7 Of manstealers. 8 Of leprosie. 14 The hire is to be giuen. 16 Of Iustice. 19 Of Charitie. 1 WHEN [NOTE: Matthew 5:31; Matt...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge, neither the entire hand mill, with its lower, stationary stone, nor the upper, movable stone, the grinder alone; FOR HE TAKETH A MAN'S LI...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    CHIEFLY OF DIVORCE, PLEDGES, AND LEPROSY...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE (vs.1-4) Under law there were cases such as often arise similarly at any time. A man may marry a woman and afterwards be thoroughly dissatisfied with her. This is a warning to...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    5-13 It is of great consequence that love be kept up between husband and wife; that they carefully avoid every thing which might make them strange one to another. Man-stealing was a capital crime, wh...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    The portion of our book on which we now enter, though not calling for elaborate exposition, yet teaches us two very important practical lessons In the first place, many of the institutions and ordinan...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 24:6 take H2254 lower H7347 millstone H7393 pledge H2254 (H8799) takes H2254 living H5315 pledge H225

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A MILL OR MILLSTONE MAY NOT BE TAKEN IN PLEDGE (DEUTERONOMY 24:6). Deuteronomy 24:6 ‘ No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge, for he takes a man's life to pledge.' The next case...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Law concerning divorce; miscellaneous regulations. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: It is of great consequence that love be kept up between husband and wife and that everything be caref...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Deuteronomy 24:1. _Some uncleanness;_ not adultery, but leprosy, secret infirmities, or insupportable wickedness. Moses, says our Saviour; because of the hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put a...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge._ THE LAW RESPECTING MILLSTONES The Jewish law was important to that people as their national code. Its enactments were wisely adapted t...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 24:6 MILL OR AN UPPER MILLSTONE. If these items were taken as security for a loan, it could deprive a poor person of the ability to earn a living....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL _Notes_.—In this chapter certain duties social and domestic are chosen to illustrate the general application of the law. DEUTERONOMY 24:1. Relation of man and wife. Divorce. The verses are hy...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION LAWS RESPECTING DIVORCE, AGAINST MAN-STEALING AND INJUSTICE. DEUTERONOMY 24:1 _Of divorce_._ _If a man put away his wife because she did not any longer please him, and she became the wife...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now, When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she finds no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorceme...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 20:19; Exodus 22:26; Exodus 22:27; Genesis 44:30; Luke

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Mill — stone — Used in their hand — mills. Under this, he understands all other things necessary to get a livelihood, the taking away whereof is against the laws both of charity and prudence, seeing b...

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