Deuteronomy 14:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, ”

• Deuteronomy 14:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Compare Leviticus 11 . The variations here, whether omissions or additions, are probably to be explained by the time and circumstances of the speaker. Deuteronomy 14:5 The “pygarg” is a spec...

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• Deuteronomy 14:12 - 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 14:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  these. Compare Leviticus 11:13-20 . ossifrage . gier eagle (Revised Version).

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• Deuteronomy 14:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

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• Deuteronomy 14:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 1-21 . God, having chosen Israel for his own, separated them from the nations, adopted them as his children, and designed them for his glory, has a right to expect from them that they should an...

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• Deuteronomy 14:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, No JFB commentary on this verse.

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• Deuteronomy 14:12 - 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 14:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  These are they of which ye shall not eat. — With one exception, the unclean birds are the same described in Leviticus 11:13-19 .

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• Deuteronomy 14:12 - 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 14:12 - 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 14:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The same observations will meet us here concerning the food of fish and of birds, as under the foregoing of beasts. Spiritually considered, and with an eye to the gospel dispensation, the whole are o...

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• Deuteronomy 14:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Ver. 12-18. But these are they of which they shall not eat ,.... Jarchi observes, that the unclean birds are particularly mentioned, to teach that the clean sort are more than the unclean, and there...

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• Deuteronomy 14:12 - 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 14:12 - 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 14:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Deuteronomy 14:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Deuteronomy 14:11 ‘ Of all clean birds you may eat.' Again the common birds such as the turtle-dove and pigeons could be eaten, along with many others. They flew in the air, and ate insects an...

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• Deuteronomy 14:12 - 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 14:12 - 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 14:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The beasts which ye shall eat. God’s provision for man’s table I. Provision, Divine in its source. Israel could not have procured it and would not have known without Divine teaching what was go...

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• Deuteronomy 14:12 - 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 14:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Of Unclean Beasts

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• Deuteronomy 14:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Leviticus 11:13-19

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