신명기 21:11 KRV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:10-14

By this law a soldier is allowed to marry his captive if he pleased. For the hardness of their hearts Moses gave them this permission, lest, if they had not had liberty given them to marry such, they should have taken liberty to defile themselves with them, and by such wickedness the camp would have been troubled. The man is supposed to have a wife already, and to take this wife for a secondary wife, as the Jews called them. This indulgence of men's inordinate desires, in which their hearts... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:11

And seest among the captives a beautiful woman ,.... Whether a virgin, wife, or widow, according to the Jewish writers, even though another man's wife; so Jarchi F3 Vid. T. Bab. Kiddushin, fol. 21. 2. , and Maimonides F4 Hilchot Melachim, c. 8. sect. 3. ; the marriages of Gentiles being reckoned by the Jews no marriages: and hast a desire unto her ; being captivated with her beauty; some understand this of the strength and rage of lust, but it rather signifies a passionate... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 21:11

And seest - a beautiful woman - No forcible possession was allowed even in this case, when the woman was taken in war, and was, by the general consent of ancient nations, adjudged as a part of the spoils. The person to whose lot or share such a woman as is here described fell, might, if he chose, have her for a wife on certain conditions; but he was not permitted to use her under any inferior character. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:10-14

If an Israelite saw among captives taken in war a woman, fair of aspect, and loved her, and took her to be his wife, he was to allow her a full month to mourn her lost kindred, and become accustomed to her new condition, before he consummated his union with her. This refers to captives from other nations than those of Canaan, with whom the Israelites were to form no alliance, and whom they were not to take captive, but either wholly destroy or render tributary (cf. Deuteronomy 7:3 ; Numbers... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:10-14

The female captive; or, Divine regard for woman's safety and honor. Any one who is acquainted with the fearful license practiced among many nations towards female captives taken in war, can surely appreciate the humanizing influence which the injunction in this paragraph was intended to exert. The law here laid down may or may not be abstractly the best; but if it was the best that the people could bear: if it would certainly lift up the people a step higher in their regard for womanly... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:10-14

Through love to liberty. We have here a regulation or law of war. Captives might be sold as slaves, but through love they might reach the position of a wife in a Jewish household, and if she did not please her conqueror, then she was to be made free again. So that the possible fate of the captive was "through love to liberty." I. LOVE IS THE BEST CURE FOR THE ILLS OF WAR . The men were to be slain: women might be kept as a prey ( Deuteronomy 20:14 ). It was a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:10-14

The captor captured. God's laws are accommodations to human infirmities. To require from men summarily, and as the result of law, perfect conduct of life is impracticable. Hence legislation, to be successful, must be adapted to the case, and must lead by gradations to a nobler life. This law, though tolerant of lesser evil, is a marked amelioration of earlier custom—a step towards order and purity. I. FEMALE BEAUTY WINS THE HEARTS EVEN OF WARRIORS . There are other... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:10-15

The captive wife. The kindness, thoughtfulness, and strict justice of the Mosaic laws is very striking. The Law here interposes to secure— I. CONSIDERATE TREATMENT OF ONE BEREAVED . ( Deuteronomy 21:10-14 .) The case supposed comes under the law of Deuteronomy 20:14 . The woman was a captive in war and a heathen, yet the Israelite is required to respect her chastity, and, if he conceive a passion for her, must not only make her his wife in a proper manner, but must allow... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 21:11

Deuteronomy 21:11. And hast a desire unto her Moses here returning to the case of war with the neighbouring nations, directs that, if a Hebrew soldier conceived a peculiar regard for a captive woman, and desired to marry her, he must not do it immediately after she became his prisoner, it being of dangerous consequence for the Israelites to marry Gentile wives. He was first to keep the woman in his house for a month, at least, where she was to live in the retirement and habit of a mourner,... read more

Donald C. Fleming

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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:10-14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 21:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:10-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:10-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:10-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:10-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:10-15

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 21:11

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:1-23

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