Leviticus 20:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you. ”

Leviticus 20:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The burning under the sentence of the Law took place after the death of the criminal by stoning, or strangling. Joshua 7:25 .
Leviticus 20:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And if a man take a wife and her mother, (f) it [is] wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you. (f) It is an abominable and detestable thing....
Leviticus 20:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Penalties for Sexual Sins generally death, the manner being unspecified. Adultery, incest, sodomy head the list; the special case of Leviticus 20:14 (contrast Amos 2:7 ) is followed by the burni...
Leviticus 20:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

wife and her mother. See Ch. Leviticus 18:17 . wickedness . disgraceful thing. Hebrew. chesed (App-44). Chesed is. Homonym : i.e. another word, spelled the same. It means (1) mercy, grace,...
Leviticus 20:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you. They shall be burnt with fire - As there are worse...
Leviticus 20:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

If a man take a wife, &c.— they shall be burnt with fire — Some have thought it very extraordinary, that this crime should be punished with burning alive; when simple death only is assigned as...
Leviticus 20:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God. Sanctify yourselves ... and be ye holy. The minute specification of the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumera...
Leviticus 20:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

(Chs. 17-26) The Law of Holiness This section of Leviticus occupies a position by itself, being distinguished from the rest of the book both by style and contents. A few only of its main character...
Leviticus 20:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

A wife and her mother. — See Leviticus 18:17 . They shall be burnt with fire. — This, as we have seen, is the second of the four modes of capital punishment. (See Leviticus 20:2 .) In the foll...
Leviticus 20:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

PENAL SANCTIONS Leviticus 20:1-27 In no age or community has it been found sufficient, to secure obedience, that one should appeal to the conscience of men, or depend, as a sufficient motive, u...
Leviticus 20:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Once more we have a repetition of laws already enunciated with the same persistent thought of responsibility. In this section we find the death sentence associated with certain forms of disobedience,...
Leviticus 20:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

What is here rehearsed concerning uncleanness, every Christian reader may say, as the apostle, of such horrible corruptions in general, let it not be once named among you as becometh saints. Ephesia...
Leviticus 20:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And if a man take a wife, and her mother ,.... Marry both the one and the other, or commit uncleanness with them, they consenting to it: it [is] wickedness ; abominable wickedness, shocking and de...
Leviticus 20:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And if a man take a wife and her mother, it [is] wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you. Ver. 14. See on Leviticus 18:1,30 .
Leviticus 20:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They All who consented to it.
Leviticus 20:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

PENALTIES FOR SIN GODWARD (vv. 1-8) Chapter 19 has given many laws forbidding sin; now chapter 20 shows that law, when it is broken, demands certain penalties. These penalties were to be executed...
Leviticus 20:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death....
Leviticus 20:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

It is wickedness, i.e. abominable and extraordinary wickedness, as the singularity of the punishment showeth. Both he and they; either, or both or all of them, if they consented to it.
Leviticus 20:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Crimes Which Deserve The Death Penalty ( Leviticus 20:9-18 ). Leviticus 20:9 “For every one who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mo...
Leviticus 20:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Social and Moral Crimes SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 20:2 .—Again thou shalt say to the children of Israel. These denunclations of sin (already denounced in ch. 18.) are to be repeated in the...
Leviticus 20:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Leviticus 20:2 . Molech. See on Leviticus 18:21 . Leviticus 20:3 . I will cut him off. Ahaz gave his son to Molech, and the Lord afflicted his reign with miseries. Leviticus 20:7 . Sanctif...
Leviticus 20:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

He shall surely be put to death. Penal sanctions This chapter, directly or indirectly, casts no little light on some most fundamental and practical questions regarding the administration of jus...
Leviticus 20:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION The subject of Leviticus 18:1-3 , is resumed in this chapter; but that which was before considered as sin only is now regarded as crime, and penalties are attached according to the h...
Leviticus 20:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For Unlawful Marriages
Leviticus 20:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 2:7 ; Deuteronomy 27:23 ; Joshua 7:15 ; Joshua 7:25 ; Leviticus 18:17 ; Leviticus 21:9
Leviticus 20:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

They — All who consented to it.

Leviticus 20:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Leviticus 20:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Leviticus 20:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 20:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Leviticus 20:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Leviticus 20:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Leviticus 20:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Leviticus 20:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 20:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Leviticus 20:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Leviticus 20:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Leviticus 20:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Leviticus 20:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Leviticus 20:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Leviticus 20:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Leviticus 20:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 20:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Leviticus 20:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Leviticus 20:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 20:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Leviticus 20:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Leviticus 20:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Leviticus 20:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Leviticus 20:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Leviticus 20:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 20:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes