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

“ He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed. ”

• Exodus 22:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  This was probably an old formula, the sense of which, on its ethical side, is comprised in the first and second commandments. Shall be utterly destroyed - The Hebrew word here used is חרם ch...

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

  Exodus 22:18-31 E. Various Ordinances. From this point up to Exodus 23:9 we have to do with miscellaneous laws, differing in the main both in form and substance from the Judgments, and theref...

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• Exodus 22:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  sacrifleeth . Hebrew. cabach. App-43.

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

  He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed. Utterly destroyed - The word חרם cherem denotes a thing utterly and finally separated from God and devoted...

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• Exodus 22:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  He that sacrificeth— A particular species of worship is here used to express worship in general: it means, he that payeth any religious honour,— shall be utterly destroyed; delivered to death, De...

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

  He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed. He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only. Yahweh being the sole object of religious...

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• Exodus 22:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Book of the Covenant (continued) 1. Four sheep] The larger compensation required in the case of the ox is probably due to the fact that it is an animal used for labour, and of proportionately...

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

  MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. (16-31) The remainder of the chapter contains laws which it is impossible to bring under any general head or heads, and which can, therefore, only be regarded as miscellaneous....

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

  CHAPTER XXII. THE LESSER LAW (continued). PART IV. Exodus 22:16 - Exodus 23:19 . The Fourth section of this law within the law consists of enactments, curiously disconnected, many of the...

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

  The laws of property follow. The section really begins with verse Exo 21:33 of the previous chapter. These laws also began by laying emphasis on the guilt of carelessness. The truth emphasized is tha...

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• Exodus 22:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  This refers to the first table. See Exodus 20:5 .

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

  He that sacrificeth unto [any] god ,.... To Elohim, to strange gods, to the idols of the people, as the Targum of Jonathan; to the Egyptian deities, to the gods of the Moabites, Amorites, Edomites,...

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• Exodus 22:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  He that sacrificeth unto [any] god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed. Ver. 20. He shall be utterly destroyed. ] As an execrable and accursed creature.

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

  LAWS AS REGARDS PROPERTY (vs.1-15) While one rightly was control over his own property, yet he is also responsible as to how he uses it. If one were to dig a pit, even on his own property, and le...

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• Exodus 22:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.   17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money acc...

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

  Sacrificeth, or otherwise worshippeth, as appears from Deuteronomy 17:2-5 , and many other places. One act of worship put for all by a very familiar synecdoche. Destroyed, Heb. anathematized...

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

  Expansion of the Ten Words of the Covenant ( Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33 ). In this section, which is composed of elements put together mainly in chiastic form (see later), Yahweh expands on th...

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• Exodus 22:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  SUGGESTIVE COMMENTS ON THE VERSES WITCHCRAFT.— Exodus 22:18 The term is here used to represent the whole class of wizards, necromancers, and diviners with which the world has been infested fro...

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

  Exodus 22:2 . Breaking up, by forcible entrance into a house, there shall no blood be shed for him, though he be killed by another in his own defence. In that case the thief might be presumed to...

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• Exodus 22:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION II. LAWS CONNECTED WITH RIGHTS OF PROPERTY (verses 33-36). From the consideration of injuries to the person, the legislator proceeds to treat of injuries to property, an...

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

  Regarding Various Social Relations

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• Exodus 22:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  sacrificeth Numbers 21:3 Joshua 23:15 Joshua 23:16

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