Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Deuteronomy 21:22
On a tree — Which was done after the malefactor was put to death some other way, this publick shame being added to his former punishment.
On a tree — Which was done after the malefactor was put to death some other way, this publick shame being added to his former punishment.
There were four methods of execution in use among the ancient Jews; stoning (Exodus 17:4; Deuteronomy 13:10, etc.), burning Leviticus 20:14;...
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...
HANG. hang up: i.e. after putting to death, not to put to death by hanging. A TREE. timber: i.e.. wooden stake. Compare Joshua 8:29; Joshua 10:26; Joshua 10:27;...
f. Of the Exposed Corpse of a Criminal A corpse exposed after execution shall be buried before night; cursed of God it must not be left to defile the land. In the Sg. address and closing with a deute...
_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...
_AND IF A MAN HAVE COMMITTED A SIN WORTHY OF DEATH, AND HE BE TO BE PUT TO DEATH, AND THOU HANG HIM ON A TREE:_ If a man have committed a sin ... and thou hang him on a tree. Hanging was not a Hebrew...
21:22 death, (a-11) Lit. 'of a judgment of death.'...
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...
וְ כִֽי ־יִהְיֶ֣ה בְ אִ֗ישׁ חֵ֛טְא מִשְׁפַּט
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...
_Gibbet. Whether the person was first killed, as the Jews assert, or he was left to die upon the gibbet, see Calmet's Diss. It is also a matter of doubt, whether he was nailed to the gibbet, or hung o...
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...
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 object of this precept was to banish inhumanity and barbarism from the chosen people, and also to impress upon them horror even of a just execution. And surely the body of a man suspended on a cro...
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...
AND IF A MAN HAVE COMMITTED A SIN WORTHY OF DEATH,.... This before mentioned, or any other that deserves death, any kind of death, as strangling, killing with the sword, burning and stoning, to which...
_On a tree_ Which was done after the malefactor was put to death some other way; this public shame being added to his former punishment....
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...
CONCERNING THE BODY OF ONE HANGED...
And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, one upon which the death penalty had been placed and also put into execution, AND HE BE TO BE PUT TO DEATH, AND THOU HANG HIM ON A TREE, literally, ...
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...
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...
Which was done after the malefactor was put to death some other way, this public shame being added to his former punishment. See JOSHUA 7:25, JOSHUA 8:29 10:26 2 SAMUEL 4:12....
"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 21:22 man H376 sin H2399 deserving H4941 death H4194 death H4191 (H8717) hang H8518 (H8804) tre
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 Samuel 26:16; 2 Samuel 21:6; 2 Samuel 21:9; 2 Samuel 4:12; Acts 23: