Deuteronomy 21:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pareb her nails; ”

• Deuteronomy 21:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The shaving the head (a customary sign of purification, Leviticus 14:8 ; Numbers 8:7 ), and the putting away “the garment of her captivity,” were designed to signify the translation of the woman...

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• Deuteronomy 21:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; (d) and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; (d) Signifying that her former life must be changed before she could be joined to the people of G...

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• Deuteronomy 21:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Another regulation (only here) pertaining to war (see ch. 20, which it should perhaps immediately follow). It is another example of D's humanitarianism ( Deuteronomy 15:12-18 *). The relief claimed...

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• Deuteronomy 21:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; She shall shave her head - This was in token of her renouncing her religion, and becoming a proselyte...

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• Deuteronomy 21:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 12. She shall shave her head, and pare her nails — Shaving the head was one of the external signs of mourning. See Leviticus 19:27 ; Leviticus 21:15 . St. Jerome, and others, however, u...

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• Deuteronomy 21:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, When thou goest forth to war ... and seest amo...

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• Deuteronomy 21:12 - 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...

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• Deuteronomy 21:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Deuteronomy 21:10-14 . MARRIAGE OF CAPTIVE WOMEN. (10, 11) When thou... seest among the captives a beautiful woman. — This could not be among the seven nations, of whom it is said ( Deuteronomy...

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• Deuteronomy 21:12 - 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 21:12 - 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...

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• Deuteronomy 21:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I pass over the natural history of the things here mentioned, to attend to the spiritual doctrine which seems to be veiled under it. And here, methinks, I see the LORD JESUS gathering from the Gentil...

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• Deuteronomy 21:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house ,.... In order to make her his wife, after some things were done here directed to; for this is not to be understood of his taking her home with a view t...

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• Deuteronomy 21:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; Ver. 12. And she shall shave her head. ] In token that she must renounce her heathenism, and lead a...

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• Deuteronomy 21:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  She shall shave her head This was one of the external signs of mourning, Leviticus 19:27 ; Leviticus 21:5 . Shall pare her nails This also seems to have been done in mourning. In the original i...

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• Deuteronomy 21:12 - 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...

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• Deuteronomy 21:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Case of Captive Women. B. C. 1451.       10 When thou goest forth to war against thine e...

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• Deuteronomy 21:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Either, 1. To take off his affections from her by rendering her uncomely and deformed; but then the last words must not be rendered shall pare her nails, but shall nourish them , or suffer the...

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• Deuteronomy 21:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  IV. FURTHER REGULATIONS CENTRAL TO THE MAINTENANCE OF SOCIETY AND THE MAINTENANCE OF FAMILY UNITY ( Deuteronomy 21:10-23 ). The remainder of Deuteronomy 21 deals with what is to happen in certa...

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• Deuteronomy 21:12 - 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...

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• Deuteronomy 21:12 - 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...

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• Deuteronomy 21:12 - 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...

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• Deuteronomy 21:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Law of Captive Women

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• Deuteronomy 21:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 11:6 ; Ephesians 4:22

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• Deuteronomy 21:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  She shall shave her head — In token of her renouncing her heathenish idolatry and superstition, and of her becoming a new woman, and embracing the true religion.

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