Chapter 24:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Numbers Joshua
Deuteronomy 24
Of Divorce, ver. 1-4. New-married men discharged from
the war, ver. 5. Of pledges, ver. 6. 10-13. Of man-stealers, ver. 7.
Of the leprosy, ver. 8, 9. Of daily wages, ver. 14, 15. None to be
punished for another's sin, ver. 16. Of justice and mercy to the
widow, fatherless and stranger, ver. 17-22.
Verse 1. Some uncleanness - Some hateful thing, some distemper of
body or quality of mind not observed before marriage: or some
light carriage, as this phrase commonly signifies, but not
amounting to adultery. Let him write - This is not a command as
some of the Jews understood it, nor an allowance and
approbation, but merely a permission of that practice for
prevention of greater mischiefs, and this only until the time of
reformation, till the coming of the Messiah when things were to
return to their first institution and purest condition.
Verse 4. May not - This is the punishment of his levity and injustice in
putting her away without sufficient cause, which by this offer he
now acknowledgeth. Defiled - Not absolutely, as if her second
marriage were a sin, but with respect to her first husband, to
whom she is as a defiled or unclean woman, that is, forbidden
things; forbidden are accounted and called unclean, Judg. xiii, 7,
because they may no more be touched or used than an unclean
thing. Thou shalt not cause the land to sin - Thou shalt not suffer
such lightness to be practiced, lest the people be polluted, and the
land defiled and accursed by that means.
Verse 5. Business - Any publick office or employment, which may
cause an absence from or neglect of his wife. One year - That
their affections may be firmly settled, so as there may be no
occasions for the divorces last mentioned.
Verse 6. Mill-stone - Used in their hand-mills. Under this, he
understands all other things necessary to get a livelihood, the
taking away whereof is against the laws both of charity and
prudence, seeing by those things alone he can be enabled both to
subsist and to pay his debts. Life - His livelihood, the necessary
support of his life.
Verse 10. Thou shalt not go in - To prevent both the poor man's reproach
by having his wants exposed, and the creditor's greediness which
might be occasioned by the sight of something which he desired,
and the debtor could not spare.
Verse 11. The pledge - He shall chuse what pledge he pleases, provided
it be sufficient for the purpose.
Verse 12. Thou shalt not sleep - But restore it before night, which
intimates that he should take no such thing for pledge, without
which a man cannot sleep.
Verse 13. Bless thee - Bring down the blessing of God upon thee by his
prayers: for though his prayers, if he be not a good man, shall not
avail for his own behalf, yet they shall avail for thy benefit. It
shall be right - Esteemed and accepted by God as a work of
righteousness, or mercy.
Verse 15. At this day - At the time appointed, weekly or daily.
Verse 16. Not put to death - If the one be free from the guilt of the others
sin, except in those cases where the sovereign Lord of life and
death, before whom none is innocent, hath commanded it, as
chap. xiii, 1-18 Josh. vii, 24. For though God do visit the father's
sins upon the children, Exod. xx, 5, yet he will not suffer men to
do so.
Verse 17. Raiment - Not such as she hath daily and necessary use of, as
being poor. But this concerns not rich persons, nor superfluous
raiment.
Chapter 24:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Numbers Joshua
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