E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 21:1
the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 . God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4 . lying = fallen down. read more
申命記 21:1-8 Jc
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 21:3
man. Hebrew. 'ish. See App-14 . read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 21:4
rough valley = ravine, or rough gully. eared = ploughed. Old English idiom. strike off = behead, or break the neck. read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 21:5
the priests the sons of Levi. See note on Deuteronomy 17:9 . word. Hebrew mouth. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6 , for what is uttered by it. stroke = punishment. Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species), App-6 . Compare Deuteronomy 17:8 . tried. Better to supply "settled", or "decided". read more
E.W. Bullinger
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
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 21:8
Be merciful = Be propitious, or make expiation or atonement. innocent blood. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species), for the guilt which shed it. See App-6 . shall be = shall assuredly be. read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Deuteronomy 21:1
Here again, we have evidence of the miscellaneous, "shotgun" lack of organization in this great address by Moses. The Great Lawgiver included many things in this remarkable presentation that were not very closely related to each other. As Cousins stated it, "It is hard to distinguish any pattern in this section, although some laws are grouped together."[1] For example, Deuteronomy 21:10-21 concerns family affairs, and Deuteronomy 23:1-18 deals with the purity of the community. Keil wrote... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 21:2
Ver. 2. Thy elders and thy judges— i.e. Of the neighbouring cities. See Numbers 11:16. read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 21:3
Ver. 3. Shall take an heifer— If two cities happened to be equidistant from the dead body, then they joined together to provide this heifer, which might be of three years old. read more
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Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:1-23
Respect for human life (21:1-23)Murder made the land unclean, and the uncleanness could be removed only by the execution of the murderer (see Numbers 35:29-34). Where the murderer could not be found, the elders of the town nearest the place of the murder had to go to an unpolluted stream nearby and carry out the ritual slaughter of a young cow instead of the unknown murderer. The blood of the cow washed away in the stream symbolized the removal of uncleanness caused by the unlawful bloodshed... read more