John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 25:6
And it shall be that the firstborn that she beareth ,.... To her husband's brother, now married to her: shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead ; the meaning is, as the Targum of Jonathan,"he shall rise up in the inheritance in the name of his brother;'or, as Jarchi expresses it,"he shall take the inheritance of the deceased in the goods of his father;'that is, he shall have his part and share in the inheritance that the deceased brother would have had if he had lived,... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 25:5-12
Here is, I. The law settled concerning the marrying of the brother's widow. It appears from the story of Judah's family that this had been an ancient usage (Gen. 38:8), for the keeping up of distinct families. The case put is a case that often happens, of a man's dying without issue, it may be in the prime of his time, soon after his marriage, and while his brethren were yet so young as to be unmarried. Now in this case, 1. The widow was not to marry again into any other family, unless all the... read more