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George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 14:19

Wings. Hebrew, "every reptile that flieth," such as bees. (Calmet) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 14:1-21

1-21 Moses tells the people of Israel how God had given them three distinguishing privileges, which were their honour, and figures of those spiritual blessings in heavenly things, with which God has in Christ blessed us. Here is election; "The Lord hath chosen thee." He did not choose them because they were by their own acts a peculiar people to him above other nations, but he chose them that they might be so by his grace; and thus were believers chosen, Ephesians 1:4. Here is adoption; "Ye are... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Deuteronomy 14:1-21

Of Unclean Beasts v. 1. Ye are the children of the Lord, your God, and this relation toward the covenant God made them a people of property, of God's possession, a peculiar people; ye shall not cut yourselves, make incisions in the flesh, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead, as a sign of mourning, Leviticus 19:28. v. 2. For thou art an holy people unto the Lord, thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto Himself, above all the nations that are upon... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Deuteronomy 14:1-29

Deuteronomy 14:1-291Ye are the children [sons] of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut [wound] yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for [with regard to] the dead. 2For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people [a people of possession] unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the [face of] earth. 3Thou shalt not eat any abominable 4thing. These are the beasts which ye shall [may] eat: The ox, the sheep, and the... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 14:1-29

Continuing, Moses proceeded to give the injunctions which revealed his consciousness of this effect of worship on conduct, warning the people against specific evils and urging them anew to observance of matters enjoined by the Law. In this chapter we find first of all his warning against the seduction of sorrow. The people of the land were accustomed to mutilate themselves in the wildness of their sorrow over the death of friends. All such mutilation was strictly forbidden to the people... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 14:11-20

Deuteronomy 14:11 ‘ Of all clean birds you may eat.’ Again the common birds such as the turtle-dove and pigeons could be eaten, along with many others. They flew in the air, and ate insects and seed. They kept to their proper sphere. Deuteronomy 14:12-18 ‘ But these are they of which you (ye) shall not eat: the griffon vulture, and the bearded vulture, and the osprey, and the glede, and the falcon, and the kite after its kind, and every raven after its kind, and the ostrich, and the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 14:1-21

Deuteronomy 14:1-Ecclesiastes : . Heathen customs to be avoided. Deuteronomy 14:1 f. Heathen mourning rites. Deuteronomy 14:1 . cut yourselves: Leviticus 19:28 *, cf. Leviticus 21:5.— baldness: the custom in mourning of shaving the hair between the eyes ( i.e. on the top of the forehead). These are merely extreme forms of expressing grief; but most recent scholars regard them as survivals of acts of sacrifice, the blood and the hair being offered up to heathen deities or to dead but... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Deuteronomy 14:1-29

CRITICAL NOTES.—The people were not only to suppress idolatry, but their whole life and conduct must be ruled according to their holy character and high calling. They must not, like other nations, disfigure their bodies in passionate grief, nor defile themselves with unclean meat.Deuteronomy 14:1. Cut (Leviticus 19:28) as idolators in mourning. (1 Kings 18:28; Jeremiah 16:6; Jeremiah 41:5; Ezekiel 7:18.) Baldness, A space between the eyebrows left bare in honour of the dead. (Leviticus... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 14:1-29

Chapter 14He said,You are the children of the LORD your God: [chapter fourteen] ye shall not cut yourselves, make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. You are a holy people, and God has chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the eaRuth ( Deuteronomy 14:1-2 ).You're, you're just a people that are to be separate unto God, different from anybody else.Now he deals with their diets, which we've already gone through as we went through the book of... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 14:1-29

Deuteronomy 14:1 . Ye shall not cut yourselves for the dead. Jeremiah mentions the not paying these honours to the dead as a punishment: Jeremiah 16:6. It was once a general custom among the heathen, for the males and females to cut off their hair and bury it with a deceased father. The Israelites, it is evident, in adolatrous times, adopted almost every custom of the heathens. Hence, says the prophet, Jeremiah 48:37, when alluding to the destruction of his country by the Babylonians,... read more

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