Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Deuteronomy 21:1
The field — Or, in the city, or any place: only the field is named, as the place where such murders are most commonly committed.
The field — Or, in the city, or any place: only the field is named, as the place where such murders are most commonly committed.
CHAPTER XXI _If a man be found slain in a field, and the cause of his death_ _be unknown, the murder shall be expiated by the sacrifice of a_ _heifer in an uncultivated valley_, 1-4. _The rites to...
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...
See W. R. Smith, _Kinship_ 1 p. 263 (= 64f. in _Kinship_ 2) for a similar law among the ancient Arabs. The ground of this law may be the belief that, until avenged or atoned for, a murdered man's bloo...
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. LYING. fallen down....
_If one be found_ So Deuteronomy 17:2; Deuteronomy 24:7, also Sg. passages. _which the Lord thy God_ IS TO GIVE _thee_ see on Deuteronomy 19:14. _lying_ Heb. _falling_but wit
(b) Expiation for an Unknown Murderer's Crime (Deuteronomy 21:1-9) If one be found slain in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath s...
_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:_ If one be found slain ... lying in the field. The cer...
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...
XXI. Deuteronomy 21:1. UNDETECTED HOMICIDES. (1) IF ONE BE FOUND SLAIN — It is remarkable that _in_ our own time the most effectual remedy against outrages of which the perpetrators cannot be discov...
כִּי ־יִמָּצֵ֣א חָלָ֗ל בָּ † אֲדָמָה֙ אֲשֶׁר֩...
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 [one] be found (a) 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: (a) This law declares how horrible murder is, s...
Land. The Jewish doctors hence infer, that if the corpse was found hanging or drowned &c., or nearer a town of the Gentiles than one of the Israelites, this law did not oblige. They are so exact as to...
I pause at these verses to remark the particularity of feature in the beast, which was doomed as a victim on this occasion; that it must be one which hath not been wrought with. Is not this typical of...
CONTENTS Provision is made in this chapter for various circumstances, of such things as might arise in the government of Israel. Here are appointments for the discovery of murder: for the marriage of...
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...
1._If one be found slain in the land_. This Supplement: is of a mixed character, relating partly to the civil, and partly to the criminal law. We are informed by it how precious to God is the life of...
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 ONE BE FOUND SLAIN,.... After public war with an enemy, Moses proceeds to speak of a private quarrel and fight of one man with another, in which one is slain, as Aben Ezra observes: IN THE LAND WH...
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: Ver. 1. _In the field._] Or elsewhere; the field is...
_Lying in the field_ Or, in the city, or any place: only the field is named as the place where such murders are most commonly committed. _Thy elders and judges_ Those of thy elders who are judges: the...
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 one be found slain in the land which the Lord, thy God, giveth thee to possess it, somewhere out in the open, on the soil, LYING IN THE FIELD, where the murderer had left or dragged him, AND IT BE...
THE CASE OF AN UNKNOWN MURDER...
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...
1-9 If a murderer could not be found out, great solemnity is provided for putting away the guilt from the land, as an expression of dread and detesting of that sin. The providence of God has often wo...
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 21 How to expiate an uncertain murder, DEUTERONOMY 21:1. The usage of a captive taken to wife, DEUTERONOMY 21:10. The first born, though the son of the hated, is not to be disinher...
"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 21:1 found H4672 (H8735) slain H2491 lying H5307 (H8802) field H7704 land H127 LORD H3068 God...
REGULATION CONCERNING VIOLENT DEATH WHERE THE MURDERER IS NOT KNOWN (DEUTERONOMY 21:1). While for convenience we are splitting up Moses' speech into parts it should be noted that it is our arrangement...
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...
_If one be found slain._ GOD’S VALUE OF INDIVIDUAL LIFE “This narrative,” says one, “sets forth the preciousness of human life in the sight of God.” Dr. Jamieson believes this singular statute conce...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 21:1 IN THE LAND. These laws will keep the Promised Land free from being unclean. ⇐...
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...
Acts 28:4; Isaiah 26:21; Proverbs 28:17; Psalms 5:6; Psalms 9:12...