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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Deuteronomy 21:8

Forgiven — Though there was no mortal guilt in this people, yet there was a ceremonial uncleanness in the land, which was to be expiated and forgiven.

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See also Deuteronomy 21:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BE MERCIFUL. Be propitious, or make expiation or atonement. INNOCENT BLOOD. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Species), for the guilt which shed it. See App-6. SHALL BE. shall assuredly be....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Forgive_ the meaning of this technical term, _kipper_, is usually taken either from the Ar. form = _to cover_, or the Syr. = to _wipe_away, the latter being also its meaning in Assyr. (Zimmern in _KA...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 213 THE METHOD OF EXPIATING AN UNKNOWN MURDER Deuteronomy 21:6. And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    (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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THEN THY ELDERS AND THY JUDGES SHALL COME FORTH, AND THEY SHALL MEASURE UNTO THE CITIES WHICH ARE ROUND ABOUT HIM THAT IS SLAIN:_ No JFB commentary on these verses....

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    21:8 Forgive (c-1) Or 'Be propitious to.' charge (d-17) Lit. 'in the midst.' them. (e-29) Or 'shall be forgiven them.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כַּפֵּר֩ לְ עַמְּךָ֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל אֲשֶׁר ־פָּדִ֨יתָ֙...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Be merciful, (c) O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them. (c) This was the prayer,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Was not this washing over the head of the beast; in allusion to the same thing as the high priest on the day of atonement? And in the address to GOD, in which the distinguishing feature of character,...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BE MERCIFUL, O LORD, TO THY PEOPLE ISRAEL, WHOM THOU HAST REDEEMED,.... Out of Egyptian bondage, and claimed as his own; and therefore it is requested he would be favourable to them, and show them mer...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them. Ver. 8. _And the blood shall...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _They shall answer_ To the priests who shall examine them. _This blood_ This about which the present inquiry is made; or this which is here present: for it is thought the corpse of the slain man was b...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Be merciful, O Lord, unto Thy people Israel, whom Thou hast redeemed, namely, by leading them out of Egypt, AND LAY NOT INNOCENT BLOOD UNTO THY PEOPLE OF ISRAEL'S CHARGE, they asked the Lord to cover...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CASE OF AN UNKNOWN MURDER...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    UNTO THY PEOPLE: _ Heb._ in the midst...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    i.e. Not imputed to them, nor punished in them; for God is sometimes said to FORGIVE when he doth not punish, as PSALMS 78:38. Besides, though there was no mortal guilt in this people, yet there was a...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 21:8 atonement H3722 (H8761) LORD H3068 people H5971 Israel H3478 redeemed H6299 (H8804) lay H5414

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    ISRAEL (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 14:30). _...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION EXPIATION OF UNCERTAIN MURDER. TREATMENT OF A CAPTIVE TAKEN TO WIFE. RIGHTS OF THE FIRSTBORN. A REBELLIOUS, REFRACTORY SON TO BE JUD

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; 2 Kings 24:4; 2 Samuel 3:28;...

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