deuteronomy-22:11-27

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:5-12

Here are several laws in these verses which seem to stoop very low, and to take cognizance of things mean and minute. Men's laws commonly do not so: Deut. minimis non curat lex?The law takes no cognizance of little things; but because God's providence extends itself to the smallest affairs, his precepts do so, that even in them we may be in the fear of the Lord, as we are under his eye and care. And yet the significancy and tendency of these statutes, which seem little, are such that,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:13-30

These laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint by laying a penalty upon those fleshly lusts which war against the soul. I. If a man, lusting after another woman, to get rid of his wife slander her and falsely accuse her, as not having the virginity she pretended to when he married her, upon the disproof of his slander he must be punished, Deut. 22:13-19. What the meaning of that evidence is by which the husband's accusation was to be proved false the learned are not agreed,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:11

Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts ,.... The Jews say nothing is forbidden under the name of sorts but what is spun and wove, as it is said, "thou shalt not wear sheatnez", a thing that is carded, spun, and wove F12 Misn. Celaim. c. 9. sect. 8. ; which Ainsworth translates "linsie woolsie", and is explained by what follows: as "of woollen and linen together"; of which See Gill on Leviticus 19:19 , whereas Josephus F13 Antiqu. l. 4. c. 8. sect. 11. observes, this was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:12

Thou shalt make thee fringes ,.... Though a different word is here used from that in Numbers 15:38 , yet the same things are intended, and Onkelos translates both by one and the same word, and which is no other than a corruption of the Greek word used in Matthew 23:5 . Though there have been some, whom Aben Ezra takes notice of, who supposed that this is a law by itself, and to be observed in the night, as that in Numbers 15:38 was in the day; but these he warmly opposes, and calls... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:13

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her. That is, marries a wife, and cohabits with her as man and wife, and after some time dislikes her, and is desirous of parting with her, and therefore takes the following wicked method to obtain it: this is to be understood of a virgin taken to wife, as the Targum of Jonathan explains it; and what follows confirms it. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:14

And give occasions of speech against her ,.... Among her neighbours, who by his behaviour towards her, and by what he says of her, will be led in all company and conversation to traduce her character, and speak of her as a very bad woman: and bring up an evil name upon her ; take away her good name, and give her a bad one; defame her, and make her appear scandalous and reproachful to all that know her: though the Jews understand this not of private slander, but of bringing an action... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:15

Then shall the father and the mother of the damsel take ,.... Power from the court, according to the Targum of Jonathan; having leave and licence granted them to do what follows, these were to, and would, concern themselves in such an affair, partly for the credit and reputation of their child, and partly for their own honour, who were in danger, as Jarchi observes, of coming into contempt for their ill education of her: and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity ; the sheet... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:16

And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders ,.... Not her mother; hence we learn, says Jarchi, that a woman has not power (or is not allowed) to speak before men; that is, in public see 1 Corinthians 14:34 and it was most proper for a father to appear in court for her, and defend her; and if she had no parents living then, those that brought her up, her guardians, that had the education of her, and placing her out in marriage, were to undertake her cause; or, as Josephus F18 ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:17

And, lo, he hath given occasion of speech against her ,.... In the neighbourhood where they dwell; has been the cause of persons speaking reproachfully of her, as one of ill fame: saying, l found not thy daughter a maid ; so that it seems he said this not only to his neighbours, and before a court of judicature, but to the parents of the damsel: and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity ; which were brought with him, and produced in open court: and they shall spread... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:18

And the elders of that city shall take the man, and chastise him. Not with words, but blows. Jarchi interprets it of beating, and so does the Talmud F24 T. Bab. Cetubot, fol. 46. 1. ; and both the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan render it,"shall beat him;' that is, with the beating or scourging of forty stripes, save one. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:5-12

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:13-30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:18

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