Leviticus 14:53 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean. ”

• Leviticus 14:53 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  This section is separated from that on leprosy in clothing Leviticus 13:47-59 with which it would seem to be naturally connected, and is placed last of all the laws concerning leprosy, probably o...

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• Leviticus 14:53 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  11 - 15. Ritual Cleanliness and Uncleanliness. Leviticus 11, Animals; Leviticus 12, Childbirth; Leviticus 13, Skin diseases (including tainted garments); Leviticus 14:1-32 , Purgation for skin...

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• Leviticus 14:53 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean. He shall let go the living bird - This might as well be called th...

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• Leviticus 14:53 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Make an atonement for the house— This expression has been before applied to inanimate things: for instance, to the altar, Exodus 29:36-37 and therefore can imply no more in this place than the...

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• Leviticus 14:53 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because t...

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• Leviticus 14:53 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Purification of the Leper. The Leprosy of Houses When a leper has been cured of his plague, and has satisfied the priest that his cure is complete, he is required to go through a ceremonial pu...

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• Leviticus 14:53 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (49-53) And he shall take to cleanse the house. — The same rites are prescribed for cleansing the house which were performed in cleansing the healed leper (see Leviticus 14:3-7 ), with the excepti...

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• Leviticus 14:53 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  OF LEPROSY IN A GARMENT OR HOUSE Leviticus 13:47-59 ; Leviticus 14:33-53 "The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment; whether it be...

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• Leviticus 14:53 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The possibility of the restoration of a leper to health was recognized and provision was made accordingly. In the case of the individual, the ceremony was elaborate. The priest must first visit him w...

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• Leviticus 14:53 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The law concerning the leprosy of an house is the same as that respecting an individual; and the same cleansing must be adopted. Nations and families in this respect, come under the same character. F...

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• Leviticus 14:53 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields ,.... Leviticus 14:7 .

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• Leviticus 14:53 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  RESTORING OF A LEPER (vv. 1-20) Even a case of leprosy may be healed, though this is not frequently seen in the Old Testament. Miriam's leprosy was healed very soon after her infliction ( Numbers...

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• Leviticus 14:53 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        33 And the L ORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,   34 When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of th...

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• Leviticus 14:53 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Leviticus 14:53 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Law Of Cleansing In Respect of a Plagued House ( Leviticus 14:33-53 ). Dealing with plagued garments was included after the descriptions with regard to discerning of the clean and the unclean...

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• Leviticus 14:53 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  Leprosy Cleansed SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 14:2 .—In the day of his cleansing. Remedy and respite came to the pitiable leper. Although his case seemed forlorn and dismal—unclean, and an outc...

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• Leviticus 14:53 - Scofield Reference Notes

  atonement ( See Scofield) - ( Exodus 29:33 ).

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• Leviticus 14:53 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Leviticus 14:3 . The plague of leprosy. This loathsome disease rendered the body torpid, and severely depressed the spirits, as is affirmed by our learned travellers in the east. It commences with...

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• Leviticus 14:53 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Leprosy in a house. Leprosy of house and garments (see also Leviticus 13:49 ):--Few subjects have proved more perplexing to the student of Scripture than this. That human dwellings and garment...

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• Leviticus 14:53 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE LEPROSY OF A HOUSE , AND ITS CLEANSING ( Leviticus 14:33-3 ). The subject of leprosy in houses must be regarded from the same point of view as that of leprosy in clot...

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• Leviticus 14:53 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Leprosy in a House

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