レビ記 20:2-4 JCB

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 20:1-27

Punishments assigned to presumptuous sins. I. THE LAW OF SOCIETY RESTS ON THE HIGHER LAW OF GOD . All legislation should be thus divinely sanctioned. The Bible is not a statute-book for nations, but a book of principles—to give light to the mind and heart of man as man. We must not enforce human law on Divine grounds, but we can use Divine revelation to ascertain the most satisfactory laws. II. PUNISHMENTS vary from age to age and country to country, but the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 20:2-3

The close connection between giving of his seed unto Molech and defiling my sanctuary , and profaning my holy name , is explained and illustrated by Ezekiel in the judgment on Aholah and Aholibah. "They have caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them. Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths. For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 20:4-5

There is to be no connivance with Molech-worship. The penalty is death, and is to be carried out by the proper tribunals, whose business it was to see that the stoning took place. So in Deuteronomy the duty of killing those who entice to idolatry is laid down. "Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shall thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: but thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 20:2-5

Molech, literally, “the King”, called also Moloch, Milcom, and Malcham, was known in later times as “the abomination of the Ammonites” 1 Kings 11:5. He appears to have been the fire-god of the eastern nations; related to, and sometimes made identical with, Baal, the sun-god. The nature of the rite and of the impious custom called passing children through the fire to Molech is very doubtful. The practices appear to have been essentially connected with magical arts, probably also with unlawful... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 20:2

Leviticus 20:2. The people Here follow the punishments of the crimes forbidden in the former chapters. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 20:3

Leviticus 20:3. I will set my face against that man Deal with him as an enemy, and make him a monument of my justice. To defile my sanctuary Because the sanctuary was defiled by gross abominations committed in that city or land where God’s sanctuary was: or because by these actions they declared to all men that they esteemed the sanctuary and service of God abominable and vile, by preferring such odious idolatry before it. And to profane my name Partly by despising it themselves, partly... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 20:4

Leviticus 20:4. Hide their eyes Wink at his fault, and forbear to accuse and punish him. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Leviticus 20:1-27

Penalties for wrongdoing (20:1-27)The law now sets out penalties for the more serious offences outlined in Chapters 18 and 19. People who offered their children to the gods were to be stoned to death (20:1-5; for Molech see note on 18:21). Those who looked for guidance through witchcraft were guilty of rebellion against God and were to be punished by being cut off from the life of the community. A person who consulted the spirits of the dead was to be killed (6-9,27).Most of the perverse sexual... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 20:2

Again. See Leviticus 18:21 . This is so serious that it must be repeated. There, only a command; here, the penalty. children. Hebrew sons. Molech. The king-idol. See note on Leviticus 18:21 , where this law follows that on incest; while here it precedes it. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 20:3

man. Hebrew ' i s h . App-14 . holy. See note on Exodus 3:8 . read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 20:1-27

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 20:2-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 20:4-5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 20:2-5

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 20:2

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 20:3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 20:4

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Leviticus 20:1-27

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 20:2

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 20:3

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