Deuteronomy 19:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. ”

• Deuteronomy 19:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  See the marginal references.

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• Deuteronomy 19:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Deuteronomy 19:14 to Deuteronomy 25:19 . Consists of miscellaneous laws having no apparent connexion with D's great law of the centralisation of worship. They deal with crime, war, marriage, fam...

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• Deuteronomy 19:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  eye . Figure of speech Prosopopoeia (App-6). life . soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13. Compare Exodus 21:23-25 .

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• Deuteronomy 19:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. Life - for life, eye for eye, etc. - The operation of such a law as this must...

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• Deuteronomy 19:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong; But if convicted of perjury, it will be sufficient for his own condemnation, and his punishment shall be...

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• Deuteronomy 19:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Cities of Refuge. Punishment of Deceit and False Witness 1-13. On the Cities of Refuge see Numbers 35:9-34 and notes there.

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• Deuteronomy 19:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Deuteronomy 19:15-21 . FALSE TESTIMONY. The law of retaliation is sternly laid down here; but it must be administered by the judges, not by men acting on their own behalf. (17) Both the men... s...

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• Deuteronomy 19:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF ISRAELITE LIFE IT has often and justly been said that the life of Israel is so entirely founded on the grace and favor of God that no distinction is made between the secula...

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• Deuteronomy 19:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Still with his mind on the fact that the people were coming into the land, Moses made further applications of the laws to the new conditions. His words now had to do with life and land and truth and...

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• Deuteronomy 19:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Was not the suretyship of JESUS pointed out in this law? Did not JESUS when redeeming his people, give an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth? Was not this literally indeed the case, when he who...

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• Deuteronomy 19:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And thine eye shall not pity ,.... The false witness when convicted; this is directed to the judges, who should not spare such an one through favour or affection, but pronounce a righteous sentence...

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• Deuteronomy 19:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And thine eye shall not pity; [but] life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. Ver. 21. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth. ] See Trapp on " Mat 5:38 "

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• Deuteronomy 19:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  An eye for an eye What punishment the law allotted to the accused, if he had been convicted, the same was the false accuser to bear.

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• Deuteronomy 19:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  CITIES OF REFUGE (vs.1-13) We have seen in Deuteronomy 4:41-43 that Moses set aside three cities east of the Jordan as cities of refuge. Now Moses gives instructions to Israel that, when God sh...

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• Deuteronomy 19:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  False Witnesses. B. C. 1451.       14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which...

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• Deuteronomy 19:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  What punishment he intended or the law allotted to the accused, if he had been convicted, the same shall the false accuser bear. Of this law see on Exodus 21:23 Leviticus 24:20

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• Deuteronomy 19:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Evidence Required Before Conviction For A Crime: The Punishment of False Witnesses ( Deuteronomy 19:15-21 ). The section on justice and the governing of the land which began at Deuteronomy 1...

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• Deuteronomy 19:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES .—This and the next two Chapter s contain enactments designed to protect human life, and to impress its sanctity on Israel.— Speak. Com . With Deuteronomy 19:1-10 cf . Exodus 21:...

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• Deuteronomy 19:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Deuteronomy 19:14 . Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark. This prohibition was salutary in preserving the public peace; it also extended to the removal of the boundaries between the trib...

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• Deuteronomy 19:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION LAWS CONCERNING CITIES OF REFUGE . LANDMARKS NOT TO BE REMOVED . LAWS CONCERNING WITNESSES . Deuteronomy 19:1-5 Moses had before this enunciated the law c...

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• Deuteronomy 19:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Precepts Regarding Witnesses

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• Deuteronomy 19:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 19:13 ; Exodus 21:23-25 ; Leviticus 24:17-21 ; Matthew 5:38 ; Matthew 5:39

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• Deuteronomy 19:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Eye for eye — What punishment the law allotted to the accused, if he had been convicted, the same shall the false accuser bear.

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