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The requirements as regards place and victim are symbolic. The heifer
represented the murderer, so far at least as to die in his stead,
since he himself could not be found. As hearing his guilt the he...
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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...
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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...
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MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ See App-14....
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_VER._ 3. _SHALL TAKE AN HEIFER_— If two cities happened to be
equidistant from the dead body, then they joined together to provide
this heifer, which might be of three years old....
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(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...
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_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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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וְ הָיָ֣ה הָ עִ֔יר הַ קְּרֹבָ֖ה אֶל
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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...
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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...
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_Heifer, not above three years old, say the Rabbins. The pagans
esteemed those victims more agreeable to the gods, which had not been
yoked. Chermon observes, that the Egyptians rejected such as had b...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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AND IT SHALL BE, THAT THE CITY WHICH IS NEXT UNTO THE SLAIN MAN,....
And so suspected, as the Targum of Jonathan, of the murder; or the
murderer is in it, or however belonged to it:
EVEN THE ELDERS O...
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And it shall be, [that] the city [which is] next unto the slain man,
even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been
wrought with, [and] which hath not drawn in the yoke;
Ver....
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_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...
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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...
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and it shall be that the city which is next unto the slain man, even
the elders of that city, shall take an heifer, a young cow, WHICH HATH
NOT BEEN WROUGHT WITH, AND WHICH HATH NOT DRAWN IN THE YOKE,...
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THE CASE OF AN UNKNOWN MURDER...
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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...
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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...
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A fit vicegerent and representative of the murderer, in whose stead it
was killed, who by this act hath shown himself to be a son of Belial,
who would not bear the yoke of God's law. A type also of Ch...
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"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...
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Deuteronomy 21:3 elders H2205 city H5892 H5892 nearest H7138 man H2491
take H3947 (H8804) heifer H1241...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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EXPOSITION
EXPIATION OF UNCERTAIN MURDER. TREATMENT OF A CAPTIVE TAKEN TO WIFE.
RIGHTS OF THE FIRSTBORN. A REBELLIOUS, REFRACTORY SON TO BE JUD
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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...
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Jeremiah 31:18; Matthew 11:28; Numbers 19:2; Philippians 2:8...
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Which hath not drawn in the yoke — A fit representative of the
murderer, in whose stead it was killed, who would not bear the yoke of
God's laws. A type also of Christ, who was under the yoke, but wha...