God smote Miriam with leprosy for her contempt of Moses, and therefore thou mayst expect the same or like punishment, if thou dost despise the counsel and direction of the Levites, which I have set over thee, and commanded thee to observe in this and the like matters.
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
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...
MIRIAM. Compare Numbers 12:10....
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...
Precautions in Leprosy. Israel shall diligently observe these as taught by the priests under divine command, remembering how God treated the leprous Miriam on the way from Egypt. Full of deuteronomic...
_VER._ 9. _REMEMBER WHAT THE LORD THY GOD DID UNTO MIRIAM_— This may be understood, either as an admonition, that they ought not to think much of being shut out of the camp, and going through the appo...
(10) LAWS OF LEPROSY TO BE OBSERVED (Deuteronomy 24:8-9) 8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I...
_TAKE HEED IN THE PLAGUE OF LEPROSY, THAT THOU OBSERVE DILIGENTLY, AND DO ACCORDING TO ALL THAT THE PRIESTS THE LEVITES SHALL TEACH YOU: AS I COMMANDED THEM, SO YE SHALL OBSERVE TO DO._ Take heed in...
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....
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...
זָכֹ֕ור אֵ֧ת אֲשֶׁר ־עָשָׂ֛ה יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ...
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...
Leprosy was disease of so singular a nature, and to be treated so differently from all others, that we cannot hesitate to conclude, what both Jewish and Christian writers indeed have all agreed in; th...
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...
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...
REMEMBER WHAT THE LORD THY GOD DID UNTO MIRIAM,.... Who was stricken with leprosy for speaking against Moses, and was shut up seven days; and they are reminded of this instance, partly to warn them ag...
Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt. Ver. 9. _Did unto Miriam._] When he spat in her face, and spared her not, though a prophetess, a...
_Remember what the Lord did unto Miriam_ This seems to have been intended as an admonition, to take care lest they spoke evil of dignities, or disobeyed the commands of the priest, which might bring s...
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...
Remember what the Lord, thy God, did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt. The point of the warning is that the children of Israel were carefully to guard against such si...
CHIEFLY OF DIVORCE, PLEDGES, AND LEPROSY...
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...
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...
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...
Deuteronomy 24:9 Remember H2142 (H8800) LORD H3068 God H430 did H6213 (H8804) Miriam H4813 way H1870 came...
DEALING WITH SEVERE SKIN DISEASE (DEUTERONOMY 24:8). When men and women were aware of an unexplainable skin disease they must play fair and consider their neighbours and ensure that they went to the p...
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...
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...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 24:8 Since a LEPROUS DISEASE makes a person unclean, a priest must make the official diagnosis. See Leviticus 13:1 and note
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...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 10:11; 1 Corinthians 10:6; 2 Chronicles 26:20; 2 Chronicles 26:21;...