Deuteronomy 22:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: ”

Deuteronomy 22:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Sins against Pure Marriages. Deuteronomy 22:14 . tokens of virginity: their absence is now known not to be necessarily a proof of pre-nuptial unchastity, though the ancient peoples held the contr...
Deuteronomy 22:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

20. But if this thing be true. If the punishment should seem to anybody to be somewhat too severe, let him reflect that no kind of fraud is more intolerable. A false sale of a field or a hous...
Deuteronomy 22:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
Deuteronomy 22:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, If any man take a wife ... The regulations that follow might be imperatively needful in the then situation of the Israelites; and yet...
Deuteronomy 22:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Laws regarding Lost Property, Distinction of Sex in Apparel, and Chastity 1-4. Law of Lost Property: see Exodus 23:4 and note.
Deuteronomy 22:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 22:13-30 . LAWS OF CONJUGAL FIDELITY. (13-21) Virginity. — The law in these verses will be best appreciated by considering its effects. The maidens in Israel would be compelled to...
Deuteronomy 22:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

LAWS OF PURITY (CHASTITY AND MARRIAGE) IN dealing with the ten commandments it has been already shown that, though these great statements of religious and moral truth were to some extent inadequat...
Deuteronomy 22:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here we have the record of the laws conditioning life in love and neighborliness. Every man was enjoined to take care of his brother's lost things if he found them; and he was also to help the hurt a...
Deuteronomy 22:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It is interesting to behold, how great provision the LORD was pleased to make, in order that the Israel of GOD, should be as distinguished among the unclean nations around them, as the LORD had disti...
Deuteronomy 22:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But if this thing be true ,.... Which the husband of the damsel laid to her charge, that she was no virgin when married to him, and she had committed whoredom, of which there was plain proof: and...
Deuteronomy 22:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

But if this thing be true, [and the tokens of] virginity be not found for the damsel: Ver. 20. And the tokens. ] Nor any natural impediment can be proved, as the Hebrews explain it.
Deuteronomy 22:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

LAWS THAT TEST TRUE DISCERNMENT (vs.1-12) The laws in this section require a proper consideration of God's creation, whether of humans, animals, birds or even inanimate things. This involves our...
Deuteronomy 22:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Punishment of Fornication. B. C. 1451. 13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto h...
Deuteronomy 22:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Deuteronomy 22:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Various Sexual Crimes ( Deuteronomy 22:13-30 ). The Protection Of A Woman's Reputation ( Deuteronomy 22:13-21 ). The rather sad message behind this regulation was that all parents should retain...
Deuteronomy 22:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES .—The cases stated and provided for in Deuteronomy 22:1-12 seem selected by way of example, and belong, according to our notions, rather to ethics than to law. It in noteworthy that...
Deuteronomy 22:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deuteronomy 22:5 . All that do so are abomination to the Lord. The note of Maimonides here is, that men presenting themselves before Venus, appeared partially in female attire; and women presentin...
Deuteronomy 22:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION REGULATIONS REGARDING CATTLE STRAYED OR THINGS LOST , THE APPAREL OF THE SEXES , THE TAKING OF BIRDS , AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF HOUSES . CONFUSIO...
Deuteronomy 22:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Various Sins Against the Sanctity of Holy Wedlock

Deuteronomy 22:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 22:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 22:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Deuteronomy 22:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 22:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 22:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 22:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Deuteronomy 22:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 22:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Deuteronomy 22:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Deuteronomy 22:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Deuteronomy 22:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 22:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 22:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Deuteronomy 22:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 22:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Deuteronomy 22:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deuteronomy 22:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Deuteronomy 22:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann