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THOU SHALT NOT MAKE MERCHANDISE OF HER - Rather, thou shalt not
constrain her: literally “treat her with constraint,” or “treat
her as a slave.”...
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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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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...
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WHITHER SHE WILL. according to her soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ See
App-13.
MAKE MERCHANDISE. Hebrew. _'amar._ In this sense, only here and
Deuteronomy 24:7....
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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...
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_let her go_ Lit. _dismiss_, the term for divorce, the right of which
was the husband's alone, but in this case is qualified by the
following.
_whither she will_ Lit. _according to her desire_; there...
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_VER._ 14. _THOU SHALT LET HER GO—BECAUSE THOU HAST HUMBLED HER_—
These things were permitted to the Jews for the hardness of their
hearts, and the violence of their passions: but the Gospel of Jesus...
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(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...
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_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...
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21:14 desire; (h-21) Lit. 'soul.' so ch. 23.24....
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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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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...
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וְ הָיָ֞ה אִם ־לֹ֧א חָפַ֣צְתָּ בָּ֗הּ
וְ
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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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_Her. Nothing shews the weakness of the Hebrews more than this
liberty, which the law was in a manner forced to allow, to prevent
greater evils. The soldier who has married a captive, may abandon her,...
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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...
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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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14._And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her_. I have been
compelled to separate this sentence from the foregoing context which I
have explained elsewhere; (161) for Moses there gave instructio...
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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, IF THOU HAVE NO DELIGHT IN HER;.... Either some time
after marriage:
THEN THOU SHALT LET HER GO WHITHER SHE WILL; by a bill of divorce, as
the Targum of Jonathan, who understands it...
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And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let
her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money,
thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast hu...
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_If thou have no delight in her_ The sense may either be, 1st, If,
after he had afflicted her, by making her shave her head, change her
garments, &c., and keeping her a full month in hope of marriage,...
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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, if thou have no delight in her, after the marriage
had thus taken place, THEN THOU SHALT LET HER GO WHITHER SHE WILL, as
a free woman, with the rights of an Israelitess; BUT THOU SHAL...
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THE LAW OF CAPTIVE WOMEN...
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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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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...
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IF THOU HAVE NO DELIGHT IN HER; either,
1. After thou hast married her; and so this is a permission of a
divorce, which being indulged towards an Israelitish woman, was not
likely to be denied toward...
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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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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...
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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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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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Deuteronomy 22:19; Deuteronomy 22:24; Deuteronomy 22:29; Exodus 21:7;...
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If thou have no delight in her — If thou dost not chuse to marry
her. Thou shalt not make merchandise of her — Make gain of her,
either by using her to thy own servile works, or by prostituting her
to...