신명기 21:10-13 KRV

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:10-14

Through love to liberty. We have here a regulation or law of war. Captives might be sold as slaves, but through love they might reach the position of a wife in a Jewish household, and if she did not please her conqueror, then she was to be made free again. So that the possible fate of the captive was "through love to liberty." I. LOVE IS THE BEST CURE FOR THE ILLS OF WAR . The men were to be slain: women might be kept as a prey ( Deuteronomy 20:14 ). It was a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:10-14

The captor captured. God's laws are accommodations to human infirmities. To require from men summarily, and as the result of law, perfect conduct of life is impracticable. Hence legislation, to be successful, must be adapted to the case, and must lead by gradations to a nobler life. This law, though tolerant of lesser evil, is a marked amelioration of earlier custom—a step towards order and purity. I. FEMALE BEAUTY WINS THE HEARTS EVEN OF WARRIORS . There are other... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:10-15

The captive wife. The kindness, thoughtfulness, and strict justice of the Mosaic laws is very striking. The Law here interposes to secure— I. CONSIDERATE TREATMENT OF ONE BEREAVED . ( Deuteronomy 21:10-14 .) The case supposed comes under the law of Deuteronomy 20:14 . The woman was a captive in war and a heathen, yet the Israelite is required to respect her chastity, and, if he conceive a passion for her, must not only make her his wife in a proper manner, but must allow... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:12

She shall shave her head, and pare her nails. The shaving of the head and the paring of the nails, as well as the putting off of the garments worn when taken captive, were signs of purification, of separation from former heathenism, preparatory to reception among the covenant people of Jehovah (cf. Le Deuteronomy 14:8 ; Numbers 8:7 ). Pare her nails ; literally, make or prepare her nails , i . e . by cutting them down to a proper size and form (cf. 2 Samuel 19:25 , where the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:13

The raiment of her captivity ; i . e . the raiment she had on whoa taken captive; this she was to lay aside, that she might put on garments of mourning. A full month ; literally, a month of days ; the period of mourning was forty days (cf. Genesis 50:3 ). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 21:10

The regulations which now follow in the rest of this and throughout the next chapter bring out the sanctity of various personal rights and relations fundamental to human life and society.Deuteronomy 21:10-14. The war supposed here is one against the neighboring nations after Israel had utterly destroyed the Canaanites (compare Deuteronomy 7:3), and taken possession of their land. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 21:12

The shaving the head (a customary sign of purification, Leviticus 14:8; Numbers 8:7), and the putting away “the garment of her captivity,” were designed to signify the translation of the woman from the state of a pagan and a slave to that of a wife among the covenant-people. Consistency required that she should “pare” (dress, compare 2 Samuel 19:24), not “suffer to grow,” her nails; and thus, so far as possible, lay aside everything belonging to her condition as an alien. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 21:13

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 her mind for new ones. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 21:11

Deuteronomy 21:11. And hast a desire unto her Moses here returning to the case of war with the neighbouring nations, directs that, if a Hebrew soldier conceived a peculiar regard for a captive woman, and desired to marry her, he must not do it immediately after she became his prisoner, it being of dangerous consequence for the Israelites to marry Gentile wives. He was first to keep the woman in his house for a month, at least, where she was to live in the retirement and habit of a mourner,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 21:12-13

Deuteronomy 21:12-13. 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, Shall make her nails, which may be understood of letting her nails grow, which to us seems more suitable to a state of mourning. But this is to be resolved entirely into the fashion of countries. Poole thinks that both of these things were rather to be done in token of... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:10-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:10-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:10-15

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:12

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 21:10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 21:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 21:13

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 21:11

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 21:12-13

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