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James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Leviticus 20:1-27

PENALTIES FOR PEOPLE AND PRIESTS The twentieth chapter is of deep interest as showing what infinite wisdom and love has considered a just punishment for certain crimes. These crimes are still committed in civilized communities but a different view of their treatment seems to exist. Are human governments in modern times wiser and better than this theocracy where Jehovah ruled? Why does not this code obtain in Christian nations, since God has revealed it and such nations are supposed to... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Leviticus 20:10-20

What is here rehearsed concerning uncleanness, every Christian reader may say, as the apostle, of such horrible corruptions in general, let it not be once named among you as becometh saints. Ephesians 5:3 . Reader! what a humiliating thought is it, that our nature should be capable of such detestable bestiality as is here mentioned! To what a degraded state are we fallen! And observe what is said concerning such things, a man shall bear his iniquity. Gracious GOD had this been our doom forever;... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 20:10-27

10-27 These verses repeat what had been said before, but it was needful there should be line upon line. What praises we owe to God that he has taught the evil of sin, and the sure way of deliverance from it! May we have grace to adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things; may we have no fellowship with unfruitful works of darkness, but reprove them. read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Leviticus 20:10-21

For Unlawful Marriages v. 10. And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor's wife, who, according to Leviticus 18:20, is restricted to her husband, so far as sexual relations are concerned, 1 Corinthians 7:4-Deuteronomy :, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. v. 11. And the man that lieth with his father's wife, with his stepmother, hath uncovered his father's nakedness. Both of them shall surely be... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Leviticus 20:1-27

FOURTH SECTIONPunishment for Unholiness“Keeping Holy the Holy Congregation by Cutting off Irreparable Transgression.”—LangeLeviticus 20:1-271And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. 3And I will set my face against that man, and will cut... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 20:1-27

Once more we have a repetition of laws already enunciated with the same persistent thought of responsibility. In this section we find the death sentence associated with certain forms of disobedience, and thus the fact of responsibility is lifted into a yet more clearly defined importance and lays a new and startling emphasis on the absolute authority of God. All the words which had thus been uttered for conditioning life were definite and positive laws. They were infinitely more than general... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 20:9-18

Crimes Which Deserve The Death Penalty (Leviticus 20:9-18 ). Leviticus 20:9 “For every one who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be on him.” The first such crime is that of a man cursing his father or mother. This does not mean that he just swears about something they have done, or at them because they have annoyed or frustrated him. It refers rather to a man who seeks to put his father and mother under a... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 20:10-21

Leviticus 20:10-Ecclesiastes : . Penalties for Sexual Sins— generally death, the manner being unspecified. Adultery, incest, sodomy head the list; the special case of Leviticus 20:14 (contrast Amos 2:7) is followed by the burning of all three persons ( cf. Leviticus 21:9). Special enormity (RVm) requires special penalty. Bestiality, and other cases of incest, and neglect of the regulation of prohibited periods, are all to be punished by death. Union with an aunt, either on the mother’ s or... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 20:13

Except the one party was forced by the other. See Deuteronomy 22:25. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Leviticus 20:1-27

Social and Moral CrimesSUGGESTIVE READINGSLeviticus 20:2.—Again thou shalt say to the children of Israel. These denunclations of sin (already denounced in ch. 18.) are to be repeated in the hearing of the nation. The holy God would have these social and moral commands reiterated that they may be emphasised upon the people’s attention. When sins are pleasant to us, when inclination leads us towards them, it is scarcely in human nature to halt at the first command to desist. Evil indulgence... read more