Deuteronomy 14:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. ”

• Deuteronomy 14:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Make any baldness between your eyes - i. e. by shaving the forepart of the head and the eyebrows. The practices named in this verse were common among the pagan, and seem to be forbidden, not only...

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• Deuteronomy 14:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Heathen customs to be avoided. Deuteronomy 14:1 f. Heathen mourning rites. Deuteronomy 14:1 . cut yourselves: Leviticus 19:28 *, cf . Leviticus 21:5 . baldness: the custom in mournin...

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• Deuteronomy 14:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  ye shall not, &c. Compare Leviticus 19:27 ; Leviticus 19:28 ; Leviticus 21:5 . Jeremiah 16:6 ; Jeremiah 41:5 . the dead . dead people (not dead bodies). No art. in Septuagint. Compare De...

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• Deuteronomy 14:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. Ye are the children of the Lord - The very highest character that can be...

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• Deuteronomy 14:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 1. Ye shall not cut yourselves, &c.— See Leviticus 19:28 . Mr. Locke, upon the words, ye shall not make any baldness between your eyes, remarks, that the meaning is, "when any of yo...

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• Deuteronomy 14:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. Ye are the children of the Lord your God - children or sons. Israe...

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• Deuteronomy 14:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Disfigurings for Mourning Forbidden. Clean and Unclean Meats specified 1. Practices connected with idolatry: see on Leviticus 19:27 ; Leviticus 19:28 .

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• Deuteronomy 14:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  XIV. (1) Ye are the children of Jehovah. — This fact is made the foundation of all the laws of ceremonial and moral holiness in the Pentateuch, more especially in the Book of Leviticus, where th...

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• Deuteronomy 14:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  LAWS AGAINST IDOLATROUS ACTS AND CUSTOMS Deuteronomy 13:1-18 ; Deuteronomy 14:1-29 HAVING thus set forth the law which was to crown and complete the long resistance of faithful Israel to idola...

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• Deuteronomy 14:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Continuing, Moses proceeded to give the injunctions which revealed his consciousness of this effect of worship on conduct, warning the people against specific evils and urging them anew to observance...

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• Deuteronomy 14:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  CONTENTS MOSES is prosecuting the same subject of GOD'S laws through this Chapter. Here are precepts concerning the persons of the children of Israel, concerning their diet, of what may be eaten and...

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• Deuteronomy 14:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Ye are the children of the Lord your God ,.... Some of them were so by the special grace of adoption, and all of them by national adoption; which was the peculiar privilege of the people of Israel,...

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• Deuteronomy 14:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Ye [are] the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. Ver. 1. Ye are the children of the Lord. ] Ye should therefore do not...

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• Deuteronomy 14:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Ye are the children of the Lord your God Ye are not only the creatures, and the offspring, but the peculiar people, the worshippers, the servants, and those of you that are truly pious, the adopted...

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• Deuteronomy 14:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE VAIN SHOW OF MOURNING (vs.1-2) The dignity of Israel's outward relationship to God as sons required them to act with proper dignity. The ungodly nations practiced such things as cutting thems...

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• Deuteronomy 14:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  What Might Be Eaten, and What Not. B. C. 1451.       1 Ye are the children of the L ORD you...

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• Deuteronomy 14:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 14 Heathenish rites of mourning prohibited, Deuteronomy 14:1,2 ; and the eating of any abominable thing, Deuteronomy 14:3 . All unclean beasts, Deuteronomy 14:4-8 , fis...

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• Deuteronomy 14:1 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Chapter 14 The Call To Walk Worthy of Being His People. This chapter covers the need for His people to remember who they were and to walk worthily of Him, and be fit to worship Him and come to th...

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• Deuteronomy 14:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES .—The people were not only to suppress idolatry, but their whole life and conduct must be ruled according to their holy character and high calling. They must not, like other nations,...

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• Deuteronomy 14:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Deuteronomy 14:1 . Ye shall not cut yourselves for the dead. Jeremiah mentions the not paying these honours to the dead as a punishment: Jeremiah 16:6 . It was once a general custom among the hea...

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• Deuteronomy 14:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

  At the end of every seven years. .. a release. Economical laws One of the things that strikes a reader of Deuteronomy, and indeed of the Old Testament in general, is the way in which all kinds...

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• Deuteronomy 14:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION HEATHEN CUSTOMS OF MOURNING TO BE AVOIDED . NO ABOMINABLE THING TO BE EATEN . MEATS CLEAN AND UNCLEAN . TITHES . Deuteronomy 14:1-5 Israel, as th...

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• Deuteronomy 14:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Ye are the children of the Lord, your God, and this relation toward the covenant God made them a people of property, of God's possession, a peculiar people; ye shall not cut yourselves, make incisi...

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• Deuteronomy 14:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 John 3:1 ; 1 John 3:10 ; 1 John 3:2 ; 1 John 5:2 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:13 ; 2 Corinthians 6:18 ; Exodus 4:22 ; Exodus 4:23 ; Galatians 3:26 ; Genesis 6:2 ; Genesis 6:4 ; Hebrews 2:10 ; H...

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• Deuteronomy 14:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Of the Lord — Whom therefore you must not disparage by unworthy or unbecoming practices. Ye shall not cut yourselves — Which were the practices of idolaters, both in the worship of their idols, in...

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