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Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Deuteronomy 23:7-8

It is remarkable from the first, in the instances of the fathers of both houses, Jacob as the head of Israel, and his brother Esau as the head of Edom, how the LORD drew the line of separation: see Malachi 1:2-4 . read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 23:8

Lord. The Rabbins explain this of the permission to marry the grand-children of such as had embraced the Jewish religion, though some of them suppose that an Idumean or an Egyptian woman might be taken to wife, as Solomon took the daughter of Pharao; but the Israelites could not give their children in marriage to the men of those nations. The grand-children of converts are rather hereby entitled to the privileges of other Jewish citizens. (Calmet) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 23:1-8

1-8 We ought to value the privileges of God's people, both for ourselves and for our children, above all other advantages. No personal blemishes, no crimes of our forefathers, no difference of nation, shuts us out under the Christian dispensation. But an unsound heart will deprive us of blessings; and a bad example, or an unsuitable marriage, may shut our children from them. read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Deuteronomy 23:1-8

Some Rules Concerning Membership v. 1. He that is wounded in the stones, a man whose testicles are crushed, or hath his privy member cut off, the urethra severed, thus being castrated, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord. Because the children of Israel were consecrated to Him, the Lord wanted them to possess also bodily perfection. For that reason, men that were thus injured or were eunuchs were not admitted to the full privileges of the congregation of Jehovah, though they... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Deuteronomy 23:1-8

The perfection of IsraelDeuteronomy 23:1 to Deuteronomy 26:19The Commonwealth of Jehovah(Deuteronomy 23:1-8)1He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off [one through bruising injured or emasculated] shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord. 2A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation 3[member] shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord. An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 23:1-25

Under the Mosaic law certain persons were excluded from worship and others from the camp. Any who in any way violated the requirements of personal perfection in physical matters were not to be allowed to stand I' among the worshipers. Both the actually maimed and such as were the direct issue of sin were excluded. The Moabite and Ammonite were excluded to the tenth generation because of their refusal to help the people of God in the time of their need and their attempt to harm them in the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 23:1-8

Chapter 23 Regulation Concerning Those Whom Yahweh Makes Welcome and Unwelcome (1-18): Regulations Concerning Honest Dealings (19-25). Moses now came to the question as to whom in the future were to be welcome to become true Israelites with full rights in the community and who would not, and them went on to deal with the question of honest dealings. Exclusion From And Entry Into The Assembly Of Yahweh (Deuteronomy 23:1-8 ). Having dealt with different aspects of concern for one another... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 23:1-8

Deuteronomy 23:1-Ruth : . Classes to be refused admission into the religious community. Deuteronomy 23:1. Here two, but in Leviticus 22:24 two additional methods of making eunuchs are mentioned. Such mutilations were required in Syrian and other religions, and for that reason disqualify for Yahweh’ s Church; but see Isaiah 56:4 f. Deuteronomy 23:2 . bastard: the offspring of an incestuous union.— the assembly of the Lord (Yahweh): P’ s designation of Israel as a religious community. The... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 23:8

Supposing their grandfather or great grandfather turned proselyte, and the children continue in that faith received by such ancestors. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Deuteronomy 23:1-25

CRITICAL NOTES.—From the sanctification of domestic relations, to which laws of marriage and chastity in the previous chapter pointed, Moses now proceeds to legislate for the purity of the congregation and the camp.Deuteronomy 23:1-8. Rights of Citizenship in Israel. Forbidden to the mutilated in his sexual member (Deuteronomy 23:1). Mutilation practised among Gentiles, but unnatural in those made in God’s image and chosen to be God’s people (Leviticus 22:24). Bastard (Deuteronomy 23:2).... read more