Deuteronomy 23:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. ”

• Deuteronomy 23:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Compare Leviticus 21:17-24 . Such persons, exhibiting a mutilation of that human nature which was made in God’s image, were rejected from the covenant entirely. However, they could be proselytes (...

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, (a) shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. (a) Either to bear office, or to marry a wife.

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Classes to be refused admission into the religious community. Deuteronomy 23:1 . Here two, but in Leviticus 22:24 two additional methods of making eunuchs are mentioned. Such mutilations were r...

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  congregation . assembly.

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  1 He that is wounded. What is here delivered respecting those who are mutilated, and who are bastards, has a similar object; lest the Church of God should be onctaminate by foul stains, and...

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. Shall not enter into the congregation, etc. - If by entering the congregation be...

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 1. Shall not enter into the congregation — This law is directed against the infamous practice of making eunuchs: such persons were not to be deemed Israelites, nor have their names entered...

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. He that is wounded ... shall not enter into the congregation of the L...

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Laws regarding admittance to the Congregation, cleanliness in the Camp, Unchastity, Usury, and Vows 1. Shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord] i.e. not merely as priests (see Leviticus...

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The rule that a eunuch should not enter into the congregation was doubtless intended to prevent the Israelitish rulers from making eunuchs of their brethren the children of Israel. As a set off to th...

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  LAWS OF KINDNESS WITH the commands we now have to consider, we leave altogether the region of strict law, and enter entirely upon that of aspiration and of feeling. Kindness, by its very nature, e...

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Under the Mosaic law certain persons were excluded from worship and others from the camp. Any who in any way violated the requirements of personal perfection in physical matters were not to be allowe...

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  CONTENTS This chapter is but a continuation of the same subject as in the former. Here are certain laws for the preservation of Israel, as an holy people to the LORD, without blemish and without imp...

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  He that is wounded in the stones ,.... In any of them, not accidentally, but purposely; which are crushed and bruised by the hands of men, with a design to make him unfit for generation, or to make...

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. Ver. 1. Or hath his privy member cut off. ] As it is a barbarous custom at th...

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  He that is wounded It is generally agreed that Moses is here speaking of eunuchs. Shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord The meaning is, not that they should be debarred from the publi...

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  NECESSARY EXCLUSIONS (vs.1-8) A man who was emasculated in any way could not be recognized as one of Israel's congregation (v.1). Such mutilation deprives one of his proper masculinity. The Lord...

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Laws of Separation. B. C. 1451.       1 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy me...

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 23 Who are to be excluded from the congregation, Deuteronomy 23:1-6 . An Edomite and Egyptian not to be abhorred, and why, Deuteronomy 23:7,8 . No uncleanness to be in the...

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Chapter 23 Regulation Concerning Those Whom Yahweh Makes Welcome and Unwelcome (1-18): Regulations Concerning Honest Dealings (19-25). Moses now came to the question as to whom in the future were...

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES .—From the sanctification of domestic relations, to which laws of marriage and chastity in the previous chapter pointed, Moses now proceeds to legislate for the purity of the congrega...

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Deuteronomy 23:1 . Shall not enter the congregation. Eunuchs might worship there, as appears from the viiith of Acts; but they could not hold any office. In regard to devotion, God has promised th...

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION CIVIL RIGHTS . WHO MAY AND WHO MAY NOT ENTER INTO THE CONGREGATION . UNCLEANNESS IN THE CAMP TO BE AVOIDED . RECEPTION OF FUGITIVE SLAVES ....

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  He that is wounded in the stones, a man whose testicles are crushed, or hath his privy member cut off, the urethra severed, thus being castrated, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord....

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 23:2 ; Deuteronomy 23:3 ; Deuteronomy 23:8 ; Galatians 3:28 ; Isaiah 56:3 ; Isaiah 56:4 ; Lamentations 1:10 ; Leviticus 21:17-21 ; Leviticus 22:22-24 ; Nehemiah 13:1-3

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• Deuteronomy 23:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  He that is wounded — A phrase denoting an eunuch. Shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord — Shall not be admitted to honours and offices either in the church or commonwealth of Israel; an...

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