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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 19:1-37

The leading precepts of the law are here repeated to give them new force, and with many additions and illustrations, that they might be better understood. Most of these having already been explained, the reader may refer to the places by the marginal references of the bible. Leviticus 19:9. Not wholly reap. No nation is well governed that is unmindful of the poor. Allowing them some indulgencies, and the means of providing a little store for winter is a great industry; and is at the same... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Leviticus 19:27

Leviticus 19:27Ye shall not round the corners of your heads.That is, they are not to shave off the hair around the temples and behind the ears, so as to leave the head bald except a dish-like tuft upon the crown, thus imparting to their heads the form of a hemisphere. This was done by the Arabs, and other worshippers of the god Orotal. Hence the Arabs are ironically called “those with the corner of their hairpolled” (Jeremiah 9:26; Jeremiah 25:23; Jeremiah 49:32). (C. D. Ginsburg, LL. D.)The... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Leviticus 19:28

Leviticus 19:28Cuttings in your flesh for the dead.The wild and frantic demonstrations of grief so common among eastern dud southern nations, included cuts and incisions in the body, among the Hebrews, the Philistines, and the Moabites, the Arabs and Ethiopians, the Babylonians and Armenians; among the early Greeks and Romaus, people in bereavement, especially women, indulged in the hideous practice of “lacerating their cheeks”; and when the king of the Seythians died, those of his subjects who... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Leviticus 19:27

Lev 19:27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Ver. 27. Ye shall not round. ] Because the Arabians their neighbours did so, and they should not be conformed to idolaters. a Oleaster, a Popish interpreter, understandeth such a shaving here, as their priest use to bear. But shaving is so bald a ceremony, that some priests in France are ashamed of the mark, and few of them have it that can handsomely avoid it. a Herod., in Thal. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Leviticus 19:28

Lev 19:28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I [am] the LORD. Ver. 28. Ye shall not make any cuttings. ] Another heathenish custom, of such as mourned without hope. a Plutarch tells of some barbarians that did tear their hair, rend their flesh, slit their ears and nose for the dead. Jer 16:6 a Consol., ad Apol. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Leviticus 19:27

Leviticus 21:5, Isaiah 15:2, Jeremiah 16:6, Jeremiah 48:37, Ezekiel 7:18, Ezekiel 44:20 Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 14:1 - ye shall not 2 Samuel 10:4 - and shaved 1 Chronicles 19:4 - shaved them Jeremiah 41:5 - their beards read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Leviticus 19:28

cuttings: Leviticus 21:5, Deuteronomy 14:1, 1 Kings 18:28, Jeremiah 16:6, Jeremiah 48:37, Mark 5:5 print: Revelation 13:16, Revelation 13:17, Revelation 14:9, Revelation 14:11, Revelation 15:2, Revelation 16:2, Revelation 19:20, Revelation 20:4 Reciprocal: Numbers 6:6 - he shall come Psalms 16:10 - my Isaiah 15:2 - all Jeremiah 41:5 - their beards Jeremiah 47:5 - how 1 Thessalonians 4:13 - ye sorrow read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Leviticus 19:27

Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.The corners of your heads — That is your temples, ye shall not cut off the hair of your heads round about your temples. This the Gentiles did, either for the worship of their idols, to whom young men used to consecrate their hair, being cut off from their heads, as Homer, Plutarch and many others write; or in funerals or immoderate mournings, as appears from Isaiah 15:2; Jeremiah 48:37. And the like... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Leviticus 19:28

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.Cuttings in your flesh — Which the Gentiles commonly did both in the worship of their idols, and in their solemn mournings, Jeremiah 16:6. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 19:27

27. Not round the corners of your heads That is, cut the hair in a circle from temple to temple, as Herodotus relates that some Arabs did in honour of their god. Also, in opposition to heathen usage, the beard must be permitted to grow equally over all the lower part of the face. read more