レビ記 20:2-4 JCB

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 20:1-9

Leviticus 20:1-1 Samuel : . Worship of Molech, etc.— Offering children to Molech (see Leviticus 18:21 *) is to be punished by stoning; such a death emphasizes the repudiation by the whole community and involves everyone in the act, always serious, of killing a fellow-tribesman ( cf. Joshua 7:25). Yahweh Himself will see that the sinner does not survive his crime even if he is not publicly punished; his whole family will be destroyed. Cursing parents is also a capital crime; in such a case,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 20:2

Here follow the punishments of the crimes forbidden in the former chapters. The strangers; not only such as were proselytes, but all others, these being gross immoralities, and such as the precepts of Noah reached to, and such as the laws of nature and nations obliged them to. And therefore the toleration of such actions was not only against reason of state, and the interest of the commonwealth of Israel, and dangerous to the infection and destruction of the Israelites by the imitation of such... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 20:3

I will set my face against that man, i.e. deal with him as an enemy, and make him a monument of my justice, either by punishing him immediately and eminently, when the magistrate cannot or will not do it, or by adding to his corporal punishments my curse upon his soul and name. See Leviticus 17:10. From among his people; from the number of his people, of what nation or kindred soever he was; or, from the land of the living. To defile my sanctuary, which was done by this wickedness, either... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 20:4

i.e. Wink at his fault, and forbear to accuse and punish him. Compare Acts 17:30. 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

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Leviticus 20:1-27

Chapter 20Chapter twenty, now God begins to get a little heavier. In chapter twenty God goes over some of the things He dealt with in chapter eighteen, only in chapter twenty telling that the violators of these things should be put to death. I know a lot of these sob sisters are crying out against capital punishment. But if we practice capital punishment as the Bible says, we wouldn't have near the crime problem that we have today.I don't know what's gone wrong with our judicial system, but we... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 20:1-27

Leviticus 20:2. Molech. See on Leviticus 18:21. Leviticus 20:3. I will cut him off. Ahaz gave his son to Molech, and the Lord afflicted his reign with miseries. Leviticus 20:7. Sanctify yourselves be ye holy; in the disposition of your minds, says Maimonides, and from heretical notions in doctrine. Secondly, from all corporeal pollutions, as it is said “their filthiness is in their skirts.” Thirdly, from exterior defilement by contact, for the words of the law suffer no... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Leviticus 20:2-27

Leviticus 20:2-27He shall surely be put to death.Penal sanctionsThis chapter, directly or indirectly, casts no little light on some most fundamental and practical questions regarding the administration of justice in dealing with criminals. We may learn here what, in the mind of the King of kings, is the primary object of the punishment of criminals against society. First and foremost is the satisfaction of outraged justice, and of the regal majesty of the supreme and holy God; the vindication... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Leviticus 20:2

Lev 20:2 Again, 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. Ver. 2. That giveth any of his seed unto Moloch. ] See Trapp on " Lev 18:21 " Lactantius reports out of "Pescennius Festus," that the Carthaginians being overcome by Agathocles king of Sicily, and fearing lest their... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Leviticus 20:3

Lev 20:3 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. Ver. 3. To defile my sanctuary. ] Great sins do greatly pollute. See Leviticus 18:21 . read more

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 20:1-9

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 20:2

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 20:3

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 20:4

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

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Leviticus 20:1-27

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 20:1-27

The Biblical Illustrator - Leviticus 20:2-27

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Leviticus 20:2

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Leviticus 20:3

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