Commentaries Dictionaries Concordances

Geneva Study Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 27:24

Cursed [be] he that smiteth his neighbour (o) secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.

(o) For God that sees in secret, will avenge it.

Continues after advertising

See also Deuteronomy 27:24 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Compare Joshua 8:32. The solemnity was apparently designed only for the single occasion on which it actually took place. Deuteronomy 27:12, Deuteronomy 27:13...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    23. THE MEMORIAL OF THE LAW AT MOUNT EBAL; GERIZIM AND EBAL CHAPTER 27 _ 1. The memorial to be set up in the land (Deuteronomy 27:1)_ 2. Gerizim and Ebal (Deuteronomy 27:9) Little comment is needed...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SMITETH. Compare Exodus 21:12....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Cp. Deuteronomy 5:17; E, Exodus 20:13; Exodus 21:12; H, Leviticus 24:17. The addition, _in secret_...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Cursed be_ The Heb. for this is simply the passive part. of the vb. -to curse" (the original sense of which may have been -to bind"), and may be rendered either _cursed be or cursed is_....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Appointment of the Levites to Curse According to 11 13 both a blessing and a curse were to be pronounced, here we have only curses, twelve in number. There _Levi_was one of six tribes appointed to bl...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THOUGHT QUESTIONS 27:15-26 473. Try to imagine the great attraction of idolatry. There must have been some rationalization, attempt to express it. 474. What is meant by the use of the word light a...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    CEREMONIES TO BE OBSERVED ON REACHING CANAAN This chapter has probably been misplaced, as it seems to break the connexion between Deuteronomy 26 and Deuteronomy 28. It ordains four ceremonies to be ob...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 27 V1 Moses and the leaders of the *Israelites ordered the people. ‘*Keep all the *commandments...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THAT SMITETH HIS NEIGHBOUR SECRETLY.-”Spoken of a backbiting tongue” (Rashi)....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אָר֕וּר מַכֵּ֥ה רֵעֵ֖הוּ בַּ † סָּ֑תֶר וְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    CURSES UPON EVILDOERS Deuteronomy 27:1 Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal were two masses of limestone rock, reaching 2700 and 2000 feet above the sea-level. Between them lay a beautiful valley, about 300...

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

    We have here the record of something distinctive and arresting. Immediately after the close of the second discourse containing a r6sum6 I of laws, Moses and the elders commanded the people that after...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Secretly, as is commonly the case; though such as committed murder in public were equally if not more guilty. (Haydock) --- Assassins, traitors, and those guilty of calumny, &c., are to be abhorred._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I detain not the Reader with observations concerning the several curses here pronounced, or entering into the particulars of them. It is enough to remark, that they express their several sentences of...

  • 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

    Now comes the sanction-that is to say, that which gives vigour to His law-in the consequences (blessings and curses) which were to correspond with obedience or disobedience. This is brought out in cha...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    CURSED [BE] HE THAT SMITETH HIS NEIGHBOUR SECRETLY,.... And kills him, and the murder is not known; the curse of God follows such, and overtakes them sooner or later. Some interpret this of smiting wi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Cursed [be] he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen. Ver. 24. _That smiteth._] Either with violent hand or virulent tongue. Jer 28:16-17...

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

    _Smiteth_ That is, killeth. This includes murder under the colour of the law, which is of all others the greatest affront to God. Cursed therefore is he that any way contributes to accuse, or convict,...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The people are commanded to write the Law vpon stones, 5 and to build an Altar of whole stones. 11 The Tribes diuided on Gerizzim and Ebal. 14 The curses pronounced on mount Ebal. 1 AND Moses wi...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbor secretly, Exodus 20:13. AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL SAY, AMEN....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CURSE PRONOUNCED FROM MOUNT EBAL...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    A MEMORIAL ON MOUNT EBAL (vs.1-10) With the directive again to keep all the commandments of the Lord, Moses gave Israel instructions, when they get into the land, to set up large stones coated with...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    11-26 The six tribes appointed for blessing, were all children of the free women, for to such the promise belongs, Galatians 4:31. Levi is here among the rest. Ministers should apply to themselves th...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SMITETH, i.e. killeth, as that word is oft used....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day. And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 27:24 Cursed H779 (H8803) attacks H5221 (H8688) neighbor H7453 secretly H5643 people H5971 say H559

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    MOSES DESCRIBES HOW THE COVENANT CEREMONY WILL PROCEED ONCE THEY HAVE REACHED SHECHEM (DEUTERONOMY 27:11). On that same day as he had spoken all the words from Deuteronomy 5:1 onwards and given instru...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The blessing and cursing from Mt. Ebal and Gerizim. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: We are all compelled to say Amen to the law of God, owning ourselves justly under its curse and that...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Deuteronomy 27:2. _Great stones,_ thought to be twelve in each pillar; they wrote the curses on the one pillar, and the blessings on the other. Deuteronomy 27:3. _Thou shalt write upon them all the wo...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark._ THE LANDMARKS OF FAITH The landmarks of faith are just the truth which God has revealed to men, and the duty which He requires of them. Among th...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 27:1 Moses’ Third Speech: Blessings and Curses. Ancient covenant treaties included blessings for keeping the treaty conditions and curses for not keeping them (see char...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 27:24 On striking down one’s NEIGHBOR, see Deuteronomy 19:11....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.—Connect this chapter with Deuteronomy 27:16 of preceding one, where Moses concludes discourse on plains of Moab. Here he dwells on sanctions of the law and sets forth in striking detai...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    PART III.—THIRD DISCOURSE OF MOSES. THE COVENANT RENEWED. CHAPTERS 27-30. EXPOSITION Deuteronomy 27:1. INSTRUCTIONS AS TO THE PU

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    In chapter twenty-seven, when you come into the land you are to take these stones and you are to build a tower and you are to plaster it. And then you are to write on the plaster of the tower the word...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Samuel 11:15; 2 Samuel 12:9; 2 Samuel 13:28; 2 Samuel 20:10;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Smiteth — That is, killeth. This includes murder under colour of law, which is of all others the greatest affront to God. Cursed therefore is he that any ways contributes to accuse, or convict, or con...

Continues after advertising