Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Deuteronomy 21:13
The woman is to be honourably treated. Even if divorced she must not be sold as a slave but allowed to go back to her people.
The woman is to be honourably treated. Even if divorced she must not be sold as a slave but allowed to go back to her people.
BEWAIL HER FATHER AND HER MOTHER A FULL MONTH - This is prescribed from motives of humanity, that the woman might have time and leisure to detach her affections from their natural ties, and prepare he...
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...
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...
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 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...
_a full month_ Lit. _a month of days_, a usual period of mourning, Deuteronomy 34:8; Numbers 20:29, etc., cp. Genesis 50:3. Contrast Mohammed's practice above. _be her husband_ Heb. _a ba-al to her_;...
_VER._ 13. _AND SHE SHALL PUT THE RAIMENT OF HER CAPTIVITY FROM OFF HER_— The French renders this more clearly: _and she shall put off the raiment which she wore when she was taken captive;_ evidently...
(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...
_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...
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 21:10. 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...
וְ הֵסִ֩ירָה֩ אֶת ־שִׂמְלַ֨ת שִׁבְיָ֜הּ מֵ עָ
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...
And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, (e) and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be he...
_Raiment. In mourning, people wore different clothes from what they did at other times, 2 Kings xiv. 2. --- One month. So long the mourning for Aaron and Moses continued, chap. xxxiv., and Numbers xx....
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...
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 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 SHE SHALL PUT THE RAIMENT OF HER CAPTIVITY FROM OFF HER,.... Her beautiful garments, and gay apparel, in which she was taken captive; and which tended to stir up the stronger affection for her, an...
And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her hu...
_She shall shave her head_ This was one of the external signs of mourning, Leviticus 19:27; Leviticus 21:5. _Shall pare her nails_ This also seems to have been done in mourning. In the original it is,...
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...
and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, all these acts being in the nature of purifying rites, Leviticus 14:8; Numbers 8:7, AND SHALL REMAIN IN THINE HOUSE, AND BEWAIL HER FATHER...
THE LAW OF CAPTIVE WOMEN...
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...
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...
THE RAIMENT OF HER CAPTIVITY, i.e. either, 1. Those goodly raiments in which she was when she was taken captive, instead of which she now must put on a servile habit, as this is generally understood;...
"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 21:13 off H5493 (H8689) clothes H8071 captivity H7628 remain H3427 (H8804) house H1004 mourn H1058
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...
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...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 21:12 SHAVE HER HEAD AND PARE HER NAILS... TAKE OFF THE CLOTHES. These actions indicate a change from her former life, including its religious practices....
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...
Luke 14:26; Luke 14:27; Psalms 45:10; Psalms 45:11...
Raiment of captivity — Those sordid raiments which were put upon her when she was taken captive. Bewail her father and mother — Either their death, or which was in effect the same, her final separatio...