신명기 21:15-23 KRV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:15-17

This law restrains men from disinheriting their eldest sons out of mere caprice, and without just provocation. I. The case here put (Deut. 21:15) is very instructive. 1. It shows the great mischief of having more wives than one, which the law of Moses did not restrain, probably in hopes that men's own experience of the great inconvenience of it in families would at last put an end to it and make them a law to themselves. Observe the supposition here: If a man have two wives, it is a thousand... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:18-23

Here is, I. A law for the punishing of a rebellious son. Having in the former law provided that parents should not deprive their children of their right, it was fit that it should next be provided that children withdraw not the honour and duty which are owing to their parents, for there is no partiality in the divine law. Observe, 1. How the criminal is here described. He is a stubborn and rebellious son, Deut. 21:18. No child was to fare the worse for the weakness of his capacity, the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:15

If a man have two wives ,.... Which is supposed, but not approved of, though permitted because of the hardness of men's hearts; for it was not so from the beginning, when only one man and one woman were created, and joined together in marriage; but as it was connived at, and become customary, a law is made to prevent confusion, and preserve order in families: one beloved and another hated ; or less loved, yet continued his wife, and not divorced. Aben Ezra observes, this follows upon the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:16

Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath ,.... By a will in writing, or byword of mouth, or by a deed of gift, actually bestowing his goods upon them, and dividing among them what he is for the present possessed of; see Luke 15:12 , that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn ; that is, when such is the case, that the son of his wife he has the least value for is really his firstborn,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:17

But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn ,.... Own him and declare him to be so, both by his will and the division of goods by him; or he shall "separate" him, as Onkelos; distinguish him from all his other sons, and make known to all, as the Targum of Jonathan, that he is his firstborn: by giving him a double portion of all that he hath ; or, "that is found with him" F20 אשר ימצא לו "quod inventum fuerit ei", Pagninus, Montanus., ; which he was in the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:18

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son ,.... It is observed F23 Moses Kotensis Mitzvot Torah, pr. affirm. 122. Kimchi in 2 Sam. 3. 3. that this law quickly follows, and is subjoined to that which relates to the marriage of a woman taken captive, because often from such marriages wicked and refractory children have sprung, and which they exemplify in the case of Absalom, whose mother they say David took in war and married: the character of such a son follows, and by which it may be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:19

Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him ,.... With their own hands, or cause him to be apprehended by others, in which they were to agree, and which the Jews gather from hence;"if (say they F25 Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 8. sect. 4. ) the father is willing (to bring him to justice), and the mother not willing, if his father is not willing and the mother is willing, he is not reckoned a stubborn or rebellious son, until they both agree:" and bring him out unto the elders of his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:20

And they shall say unto the elders of his city ,.... In open court, what follows, at the same time, according to the Targum of Jonathan, acknowledging their own sins, for which such a calamity had befallen them, saying,"we have transgressed the decree of the word of the Lord, because is born unto us a son that is stubborn, &c.;'see John 9:2 . this our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice ; one of an obstinate disposition, will have his own will and way, is... read more

John Gill

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

And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die ,.... The populace; that is, after his trial is finished, and he is condemned to die; and he was not stoned until the three first judges were there (by whom he was admonished, and ordered to be beaten), as it it said, "this is our son", this is he that was beaten before you F6 Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 3. sect. 4. ; and according to the Targum of Jonathan,"if he feared (God, and showed any token of repentance) and received... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:22

And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death ,.... This before mentioned, or any other that deserves death, any kind of death, as strangling, killing with the sword, burning and stoning, to which the Jews restrain it here: and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him, on a tree ; is condemned to stoning, and after that they hang him, as the Targum of Jonathan; and according to the Jewish Rabbins, as Jarchi observes, all that were stoned were to be hanged, and only men, not women ... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:15-17

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:18-23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:20

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 21:22

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