Deuteronomy 21:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him: ”

Deuteronomy 21:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

If [one] be found (a) slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, [and] it be not known who hath slain him: (a) This law declares how horrible murder is,...
Deuteronomy 21:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

See W. R. Smith, Kinship 1 p. 263 (= 64f. in Kinship 2) for a similar law among the ancient Arabs. The ground of this law may be the belief that, until avenged or atoned for, a murdered man's blo...
Deuteronomy 21:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4. lying . fallen down.
Deuteronomy 21:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1. If one be found slain in the land. This Supplement: is of a mixed character, relating partly to the civil, and partly to the criminal law. We are informed by it how pr...
Deuteronomy 21:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:
Deuteronomy 21:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him: If one be found slain ... lying in the field. T...
Deuteronomy 21:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expiation of Undetected Homicide. Marriage of Captive Women. Punishment of a Rebellious Son The last sub-section of the Second Discourse begins here, containing a variety of social and domestic re...
Deuteronomy 21:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

XXI. Deuteronomy 21:1-9 . UNDETECTED HOMICIDES. (1) If one be found slain — It is remarkable that in our own time the most effectual remedy against outrages of which the perpetrators canno...
Deuteronomy 21:1 - 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...
Deuteronomy 21:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Sundry laws affecting the life of the people in the land after the conquest were now uttered. The sin of murder was once again dealt with. This time it was the murder of a person which could not be t...
Deuteronomy 21:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS Provision is made in this chapter for various circumstances, of such things as might arise in the government of Israel. Here are appointments for the discovery of murder: for the marriage o...
Deuteronomy 21:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

If one be found slain ,.... After public war with an enemy, Moses proceeds to speak of a private quarrel and fight of one man with another, in which one is slain, as Aben Ezra observes: in the lan...
Deuteronomy 21:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

If [one] be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, [and] it be not known who hath slain him: Ver. 1. In the field. ] Or elsewhere; the field...
Deuteronomy 21:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lying in the field Or, in the city, or any place: only the field is named as the place where such murders are most commonly committed. Thy elders and judges Those of thy elders who are judges: th...
Deuteronomy 21:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

UNSOLVED MURDER (vs.1-9) If one was killed and his body found removed from any city or town, the murderer being unknown, then elders and judges of Israel were required to ascertain what was the n...
Deuteronomy 21:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Undetected Murder. B. C. 1451. 1 If one be found slain in the land which the L ORD th...
Deuteronomy 21:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 21 How to expiate an uncertain murder, Deuteronomy 21:1-19 . The usage of a captive taken to wife, Deuteronomy 21:10-14 . The first born, though the son of the hated, is n...
Deuteronomy 21:1 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Regulation Concerning Violent Death Where The Murderer Is Not Known ( Deuteronomy 21:1-9 ). While for convenience we are splitting up Moses' speech into parts it should be noted that it is our ar...
Deuteronomy 21:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES .—The reason for grouping these five laws, apparently so different from one another, as well as for attaching them to the previous regulations is found in the desire to bring out dist...
Deuteronomy 21:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deuteronomy 21:4 . A rough valley. The guilt being transferred to the heifer, the slaying it in a cultivated field would have polluted the ground. The Hebrew altar allowed of no victim to be offer...
Deuteronomy 21:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

If one be found slain. God’s value of individual life “This narrative,” says one, “sets forth the preciousness of human life in the sight of God.” Dr. Jamieson believes this singular statute co...
Deuteronomy 21:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION EXPIATION OF UNCERTAIN MURDER . TREATMENT OF A CAPTIVE TAKEN TO WIFE . RIGHTS OF THE FIRSTBORN . A REBELLIOUS , REFRACTORY SON TO BE JUDGED AND...
Deuteronomy 21:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

If one be found slain in the land which the Lord, thy God, giveth thee to possess it, somewhere out in the open, on the soil, lying in the field, where the murderer had left or dragged him, and it...
Deuteronomy 21:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 28:4 ; Isaiah 26:21 ; Proverbs 28:17 ; Psalms 5:6 ; Psalms 9:12
Deuteronomy 21:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The field — Or, in the city, or any place: only the field is named, as the place where such murders are most commonly committed.

Deuteronomy 21:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Deuteronomy 21:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 21:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Deuteronomy 21:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 21:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Deuteronomy 21:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 21:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 21:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 21:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Deuteronomy 21:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 21:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Deuteronomy 21:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Deuteronomy 21:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Deuteronomy 21:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deuteronomy 21:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 21:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 21:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Deuteronomy 21:1 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 21:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Deuteronomy 21:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deuteronomy 21:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

Deuteronomy 21:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Deuteronomy 21:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Deuteronomy 21:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 21:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes