Leviticus 18:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness. ”

• Leviticus 18:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Thy brother’s wife - That is, if she had children. See Deuteronomy 25:5 . The law here expressed was broken by Antipas in his connection with Herodias Matthew 14:3-4 .

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• Leviticus 18:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy (h) brother's wife: it [is] thy brother's nakedness. (h) Because the idolaters, among whom God's people had dwelt and would dwell, were given to these hor...

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• Leviticus 18:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Forbidden Degrees of Marriage. After a general preface ( Leviticus 18:6 ) the relationships are given in detail. The phrase uncover the nakedness is almost confined to Leviticus 17-20, Ezek., and G...

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• Leviticus 18:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  16. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife. They are bad (92) interpreters who raise a controversy on this passage, and expound it, that a brother’s wife must not be take...

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• Leviticus 18:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness. Thy brother's wife - This was an illegal marriage, unless the brother died childless. In that case it was...

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• Leviticus 18:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she is thy father's near kinswoman. No JFB commentary on these verses.

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• Leviticus 18:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Law of Forbidden Degrees of Marriage, and of Chastity 3. Some of the unions here forbidden as incestuous were permitted among the nations of antiquity. The early Egyptians, e.g. permitted marriage...

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• Leviticus 18:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The nakedness of thy brother’s wife. — Though alliance with a brother’s wife is here forbidden — the prohibition, according to the administrators of the law during the second Temple, extending to i...

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• Leviticus 18:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE LAW OF HOLINESS: CHASTITY Leviticus 18:1-30 Chapter S 18, 19, and 20, by a formal introduction Leviticus 18:1-5 and a formal closing, Leviticus 20:22-26 are indicated as a distinct sect...

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• Leviticus 18:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  At this point in the enunciation of the laws of separation they assume a slightly altered character. So far, the fundamental matters of relationships to God have been the principal note. Now the habi...

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• Leviticus 18:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  These precepts, considered in a moral sense, carry with them conviction of their own propriety. And if explained spiritually, they serve to convey this idea, that the souls who are taken into covenan...

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• Leviticus 18:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife ,.... Neither debauch her nor after the death of the brother marry her, that is, unless he dies without issue; and then, by another law, he...

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• Leviticus 18:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it [is] thy brother's nakedness. Ver. 16. Brother's wife.] Except in that special case. Deu 25:5 This was Herod's sin Mat 14:4 and our He...

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• Leviticus 18:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Thy brother's wife Unless he died childless, for in that case God afterward commanded that a man should marry his brother's widow, Deuteronomy 25:5 . For the prohibiting of marriages in the more r...

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• Leviticus 18:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  FORBIDDING SEXUAL SINS (vv. 1-30) Chapter 17 has dealt with sin directly against God; now chapter 18 speaks of sin in relationship with other creatures, primarily humans, but also animals (v. 23)....

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• Leviticus 18:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Incest Defined and Forbidden; Against Marrying Near Relations. B. C. 1490.       6 None of y...

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• Leviticus 18:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Neither in his lifetime, nor after his death, and therefore a woman might not marry her husband's brother, nor might a man marry his wife's sister, either before or after his wife's death, for so all...

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• Leviticus 18:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Relationships Within Families ( Leviticus 18:6-18 ). Leviticus 18:6 “None of you shall approach to any who are near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.” Firstly the initi...

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• Leviticus 18:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  Incestuous Marriages: Domestic Purity SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 18:2 .—Speak unto them and say, I am the Lord your God. Jehovah is the sole lawgiver, His word the one law to His people: ungo...

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• Leviticus 18:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Leviticus 18:21 . Molech, or Moloch, was the chief idol of the Sabians, and of the Ammonites. 1 Kings 11:7 ; 1 Kings 11:33 . To this idol Solomon built a high place on mount Olivet. The form of...

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• Leviticus 18:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

  None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him. Consanguinity 1. God the institutor of marriage ( Leviticus 18:6 ). 2. Faith in Christ not commanded in the law ( Leviticus 18:5...

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• Leviticus 18:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  PART III . SECTION III . EXPOSITION MORAL UNCLEANNESS AND ITS PUNISHMENT . This being the subject of the three following chapters (chapters 18-20), they naturally form a sequence...

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• Leviticus 18:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Unlawful Marriages

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• Leviticus 18:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 25:5 ; Leviticus 20:21 ; Luke 3:19 ; Mark 12:19 ; Mark 6:17 ; Matthew 14:3 ; Matthew 14:4 ; Matthew 22:24

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• Leviticus 18:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Thy brother's wife — God afterwards commanded, that in one case, a man should marry his brother's widow.

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