신명기 21:7 KRV

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 21:7

he. Compare Genesis 49:3 . strength. Hebrew. 'avon. Homonym = strength, here and Genesis 49:3 and Job 31:25 (Authorized Version "wealth"); but = suffering, &c, in Genesis 35:18 (margin) Deuteronomy 26:14 , and Hosea 9:4 . his. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Targum of Onkelos, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "his therefore". read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Deuteronomy 21:1-9

Unsolved murders 21:1-9"The reason for grouping these five laws [in ch. 21], which are apparently so different from one another, as well as for attaching them to the previous regulations, is to be found in the desire to bring out distinctly the sacredness of life and of personal rights from every point of view, and impress it upon the covenant nation." [Note: Keil and Delitzsch, 3:404.] Cities were responsible for murders committed within their jurisdictions. This indicates that there is such a... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 21:1-23

Expiation of Undetected Homicide. Marriage of Captive Women. Punishment of a Rebellious SonThe last sub-section of the Second Discourse begins here, containing a variety of social and domestic regulations.1-9. The Expiation of Undetected Homicide. The cases of accidental and open, wilful murder have been already provided for in Deuteronomy 19. This passage treats the case of undetected homicide. Murder pollutes the land and must be expiated. When the murderer cannot be discovered the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Deuteronomy 21:1-9

XXI.Deuteronomy 21:1-9. UNDETECTED HOMICIDES.(1) If one be found slain—It is remarkable that in our own time the most effectual remedy against outrages of which the perpetrators cannot be discovered is a fine upon the district in which they occur.(2) Thy elders and thy judges shall come forth.—Rashi says these were to be special commissioners, members of the great Sanhedrin.(3-4) An heifer, which hath not been wrought with . . . a rough valley which is neither eared nor sown.—Rashi’s note on... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:1-23

THE ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF ISRAELITE LIFEIT 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 and the religious laws. Whatever their origin may have been, whether they had been part of the tribal constitution before Moses’ day or not, they were all regarded as Divinely given. They had been accepted as fit building stones for the great edifice of that national life in which God was to reveal... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Deuteronomy 21:1-23

17. The Expiation of an Uncertain Murder and Various Instructions CHAPTER 21 1. The expiation of an unknown murder (Deuteronomy 21:1-9 ) 2. Concerning a wife, who had been a prisoner of war (Deuteronomy 21:10-14 ) 3. The right of the firstborn (Deuteronomy 21:15-17 ) 4. The punishment of a rebellious son (Deuteronomy 21:18-21 ) 5. The burial of one who hanged on a tree (Deuteronomy 21:22-23 ) The expiation of an unknown murder seems to find an interesting application in the case of... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 21:1-23

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 nearest city. Then the elders of that city must take the responsibility of facing this righteously. This involved taking a young heifer that had never been worked or yoked for service, bringing it down to a valley where there was running water, a valley in its pristine condition. There the elders... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:1-23

VARIOUS REGULATIONS EXPIATION OF INNOCENT BLOOD (Deuteronomy 21:1-9 ) These ceremonies showed the sanctity associated with human life. The “rough valley” of verse 4 is in the Revised Version “running water,” and the whole was calculated to lead to the discovery of criminals and repress crime. FEMALE CAPTIVES (Deuteronomy 21:10-14 ) These regulations were to improve the usages of the nations concerning the capture of females in war. A month was the period of mourning among the Jews, and... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:5-9

Was not this washing over the head of the beast; in allusion to the same thing as the high priest on the day of atonement? And in the address to GOD, in which the distinguishing feature of character, as the Redeemer of his people, is expressly kept in view; was it not, as all the expressions of the law, intimating that without shedding of blood there was no remission? And if so, doth not the Reader behold in all this JESUS doing away all our murderous sins, by which we have destroyed ourselves,... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:7

It. Magistrates are in some degree responsible, if by their neglect the high roads are unsafe. (Calmet) --- They had testified that they had done their duty. (Worthington) read more