Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Deuteronomy 21:12
She shall shave her head — In token of her renouncing her heathenish idolatry and superstition, and of her becoming a new woman, and embracing the true religion.
She shall shave her head — In token of her renouncing her heathenish idolatry and superstition, and of her becoming a new woman, and embracing the true religion.
Verse Deuteronomy 21:12. _SHE SHALL SHAVE HER HEAD_] This was in token of her renouncing her religion, and becoming a proselyte to that of the Jews. This is still a custom in the East; when a Christi...
The shaving the head (a customary sign of purification, Leviticus 14:8; Numbers 8:7), and the putting away “the garment of her captivity,” were designed to signify the translation of the woman from th...
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...
Another regulation (only here) pertaining to war (see ch. 20, which it should perhaps immediately follow). It is another example of D's humanitarianism (Deuteronomy 15:12 *). The relief claimed for th...
_to thine house_ Lit. _to the midst of thy household_. _shave her head, and pare her nails_ Heb. _make_or _dress her nails_(2 Samuel 19:24 with _feet_and _beard_). Berth. thinks these duties are part...
Of Marriage with a Captive of War If a woman taken in war is desired for a wife (Deuteronomy 21:11 f.), she may be brought home, but the marriage shall not take place till she has shaved her hair, pa...
_VER._ 12. _SHE SHALL SHAVE HER HEAD, AND PARE HER NAILS_— _Shaving the head_ was one of the external signs of mourning. See Leviticus 19:27; Leviticus 21:15. St. Jerome, and others, however, understa...
(6) MARRYING WOMEN CAPTIVES (Deuteronomy 21:10-14) 10 When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God delivereth them into thy hands, and thou carriest them away captive, 11...
_WHEN THOU GOEST FORTH TO WAR AGAINST THINE ENEMIES, AND THE LORD THY GOD HATH DELIVERED THEM INTO THINE HANDS, AND THOU HAST TAKEN THEM CAPTIVE,_ When thou goest forth to war ... and seest among the...
21:12 pare (g-17) Lit. 'do.'...
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...
These are rites indicative of purification: see Leviticus 14:8; Numbers 6:9. The captive comes from a heathen people, and this ceremony symbolises the renouncing of her former life and her adoption in...
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 21:10. MARRIAGE OF CAPTIVE WOMEN. (10, 11) WHEN THOU... SEEST AMONG THE CAPTIVES A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. — This could not be among the seven nations, of whom it is said (Deuteronomy 20:1), “tho...
וַ הֲבֵאתָ֖הּ אֶל ־תֹּ֣וךְ בֵּיתֶ֑ךָ וְ גִלְּ
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...
Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; (d) and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; (d) Signifying that her former life must be changed before she could be joined to the people of Go...
Hair. In mourning, people did the reverse to what they were accustomed to do in the days of joy. The men let their hair grow, the women cut this ornament of their head, a thing which the prophets ofte...
I pass over the natural history of the things here mentioned, to attend to the spiritual doctrine which seems to be veiled under it. And here, methinks, I see the LORD JESUS gathering from the Gentile...
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...
THEN THOU SHALT BRING HER HOME TO THINE HOUSE,.... In order to make her his wife, after some things were done here directed to; for this is not to be understood of his taking her home with a view to d...
Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; Ver. 12. _And she shall shave her head._] In token that she must renounce her heathenism, and lead a n...
_She shall shave her head_ This was one of the external signs of mourning, Leviticus 19:27; Leviticus 21:5. _Shall pare her nails_ This also seems to have been done in mourning. In the original it is,...
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...
then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails, that is, cut them, keep them trimmed, 2 Samuel 19:24;...
THE LAW OF CAPTIVE WOMEN...
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...
PARE: Or, suffer to grow. _Heb._ make or dress...
10-14 By this law a soldier was allowed to marry his captive, if he pleased. This might take place upon some occasions; but the law does not show any approval of it. It also intimates how binding the...
Either, 1. To take off his affections from her by rendering her uncomely and deformed; but then the last words must not be rendered shall PARE HER NAILS, but shall _nourish them_, or _suffer_ them _t...
"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 21:12 bring H935 (H8689) home H8432 house H1004 shave H1548 (H8765) head H7218 trim H6213 ...
IV. FURTHER REGULATIONS CENTRAL TO THE MAINTENANCE OF SOCIETY AND THE MAINTENANCE OF FAMILY UNITY (DEUTERONOMY 21:10). The remainder of Deuteronomy 21 deals with what is to happen in certain cases con...
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 21:12 SHAVE HER HEAD AND PARE HER NAILS... TAKE OFF THE CLOTHES. These actions indicate a change from her former life, including its religious practices....
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 11:6; Ephesians 4:22...