Deuteronomy 21:1
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. LYING. fallen down.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. LYING. fallen down.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ See App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
ROUGH VALLEY. ravine, or rough gully. EARED. ploughed. Old English idiom. STRIKE OFF. behead, or break the neck.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PRIESTS THE SONS OF LEVI. See note on Deuteronomy 17:9. WORD. Hebrew mouth. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for what is uttered by it. STROKE. punishment. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Species), App-6. Compare Deuteronomy 17:8. TRIED. Better to supply "settled", or ... [ Continue Reading ]
HE. Compare Genesis 49:3. STRENGTH. Hebrew. _'avon. Homonym =_ strength, here and Genesis 49:3 and Job 31:25 (Authorized Version "wealth"); but. suffering, &c, in Genesis 35:18 (margin) Deuteronomy 26:14, and Hosea 9:4. HIS. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Targum of Onkelos, Septuagint, S... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
PUT AWAY, &C. See note on Deuteronomy 13:5. GUILT OF INNOCENT BLOOD. blood-guiltiness, blood being put for guilt. See note on Deuteronomy 21:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
HANDS. Hebrew text reads "hand"; but some codices, with The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Septuagint, and Syriac, read "hands", as Authorized Version.... [ Continue Reading ]
RAIMENT OF HER CAPTIVITY. mantle in which she was taken captive. "Of". Genitive of relation (see App-17). A FULL MONTH. Hebrew. a moon of days. husband. Hebrew Baal, or lord. Compare first occurrence of verb, Genesis 20:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF. Compare 1 Samuel 1:2; 2 Chronicles 24:3... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN. Hebrew in the day. See App-18.... [ Continue Reading ]
STUBBORN. rebellious. REBELLIOUS. refractory.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GATE: i.e. the place of judgment.... [ Continue Reading ]
GLUTTON, &C. Compare Matthew 11:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN. Hebrew, plural of _ish_, or _'enosh._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
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; Galatians 1:3; Galatians 1:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
ACCURSED. a curse. Compare Numbers 25:4; 2 Samuel 21:6. LAND. soil. Hebrew. _'adamah._... [ Continue Reading ]