His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged [is] accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance.
Ver. 23. For he that is hanged.] See Trapp on " Gal 3:13 "
Verse Deuteronomy 21:23. _HIS BODY SHALL NOT REMAIN ALL NIGHT UPON THE TREE_] Its exposure for the space of _one day_ was judged sufficient. The law which required this answered all the ends of publi...
HE THAT IS HANGED IS ACCURSED OF GOD - i. e. “Bury him that is hanged out of the way before evening: his hanging body defiles the land; for God’s curse rests on it.” The curse of God is probably regar...
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...
ACCURSED. a curse. Compare Numbers 25:4; 2 Samuel 21:6. LAND. soil. Hebrew. _'adamah._...
_for_ THE THING HANGED _is accursed of God_ lit. _a curse of God_. This was the meaning of such exposure of the corpse after execution. God's wrath was heaped upon it; or it became doubly unclean and...
_VER._ 22, 23. _HE BE TO BE PUT TO DEATH, AND THOU HANG HIM ON A TREE_— Or, _He be put to death,_ &c. Calmet and Waterland. Hence it appears, that this punishment was not the same with the Roman cruci...
i. THE SANCTITY OF THE LAND: MAN HANGED ON A TREE (Deuteronomy 21:22-23) 22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree; 23 his body shall no...
_HIS BODY SHALL NOT REMAIN ALL NIGHT UPON THE TREE, BUT THOU SHALT IN ANY WISE BURY HIM THAT DAY; (FOR HE THAT IS HANGED IS ACCURSED OF GOD;) THAT THY LAND BE NOT DEFILED, WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVET...
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...
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 21:22. — HANGING. (22) AND HE BE PUT TO DEATH. — Better, _and he hath been put to death._ Hanging _followed_ death in Israel (Joshua 10:26). (23) HIS BODY SHALL NOT REMAIN ALL NIGHT. — Ob...
לֹא ־תָלִ֨ין נִבְלָתֹ֜ו עַל ־הָ עֵ֗ץ כִּֽי
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...
His body shall not remain (m) all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged [is] accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God...
Of God. Chaldean, "he has been fixed on the gibbet for sinning against God." Symmachus and Arabic, "he has blasphemed the Lord." Syriac, "the man who has blasphemed shall be hung." Only people accused...
Whether the former observations in this chapter, which I ventured to make concerning the ever blessed JESUS, be well founded or not, yet here I presume to speak with more confidence; for the HOLY GHOS...
REFLECTIONS READER! may it be your happiness and mine, while perusing this chapter, to remark the superiority of the gospel to the law. Evidently we here see by the provision made for certain cases to...
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 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...
HIS BODY SHALL NOT REMAIN ALL NIGHT UPON THE TREE,.... Which is to be understood of any and everyone that was hanged, and not of the rebellious son only; of whom Josephus l says, that he was to be sto...
Deu. 21:23. "For he that is hanged is accursed by God." The instances we have of those that were hanged, are agreeable to this. Thus the heads of the people that joined themselves to Baalpeor were hun...
_He is accursed of God_ He is in a singular manner cursed and punished by God's appointment with a most shameful kind of punishment, as this was held among the Jews and all nations; and therefore this...
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...
his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day, before sunset, (FOR HE THAT IS HANGED IS ACCURSED OF GOD,) rejected as detestable and as defiling the l...
CONCERNING THE BODY OF ONE HANGED...
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...
ACCURSED OF GOD: _ Heb._ the curse of God...
22,23 By the law of Moses, the touch of a dead body was defiling, therefore dead bodies must not be left hanging, as that would defile the land. There is one reason here which has reference to Christ...
IS ACCURSED OF GOD, i.e. he is in a singular manner cursed and punished by God's appointment with a most shameful kind of punishment, as this was held among the Jews and all nations; and therefore thi...
"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 21:23 body H5038 overnight H3885 (H8799) tree H6086 surely H6912 (H8800) bury H6912 (H8799) da
DISPOSAL OF BODIES WHICH ARE ACCURSED (DEUTERONOMY 21:22). The thought of the stoning of a son who was worthy of death leads on to the question of what was done with the body of such a person. Analy...
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...
_He that is hanged is accursed of God._ HANGING I. Hanging a disgraceful punishment. The body was exposed to insult and assault. Shameful deeds were kept in public memory, and the dead was a spectac...
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...
1 Corinthians 16:22; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 2 Samuel 21:6; Deuteronomy 7:26;...
He is accursed of God — He is in a singular manner cursed and punished by God's appointment with a most shameful kind of punishment, as this was held among the Jews and all nations; and therefore this...