Leviticus 20:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. ”

• Leviticus 20:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The ground is here again stated on which all these laws of holiness should be obeyed. See Leviticus 18:24-30 note. Leviticus 20:24 Compare the margin reference. Leviticus 20:25 , Levi...

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• Leviticus 20:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Final Appeal, emphasizing the motive of separation from the customs of the original inhabitants, complementary to that of fear of defilement ( Leviticus 18:30 ). Refusal to make the due distinc...

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• Leviticus 20:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  manners . statutes. It was this that brought down the judgment of extermination. No other remedy would do. These nations were descended from the nephilim (see App-25), who like those who were dest...

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• Leviticus 20:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

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• Leviticus 20:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ye shall not walk in the manners of the nations, &c.— See Genesis 9:25 .

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• Leviticus 20:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless. No JFB commentary on these verses.

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• Leviticus 20:23 - 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...

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• Leviticus 20:23 - 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...

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• Leviticus 20:23 - 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,...

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• Leviticus 20:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Let the Reader remark with me, in the perusal of these verses, the grounds on which the LORD enjoins sanctity of life and manners, and the very strong motives in which it is founded, namely, that the...

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• Leviticus 20:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation which I cast out before you ,.... Nation seems to be put for nations, for there were seven nations cast out for them; though the Canaanites may be...

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• Leviticus 20:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. Ver. 23. See on Lev 18:1-30

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• Leviticus 20:23 - 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...

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• Leviticus 20:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.   23 And ye shall not walk in the manners...

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• Leviticus 20:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Leviticus 20:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Israel Are Inheriting A Land Flowing With Milk And Honey And Must Not Defile It But Must Be Holy To Yahweh ( Leviticus 20:22-27 ). Leviticus 20:22 “You shall therefore keep all my statutes, an...

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• Leviticus 20:23 - 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...

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• Leviticus 20:23 - 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...

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• Leviticus 20:23 - 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...

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• Leviticus 20:23 - 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...

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• Leviticus 20:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Admonition to Holiness

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• Leviticus 20:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 12:30 ; Deuteronomy 12:31 ; Deuteronomy 9:5 ; Jeremiah 10:1 ; Jeremiah 10:2 ; Leviticus 18:24 ; Leviticus 18:27 ; Leviticus 18:3 ; Leviticus 18:30 ; Psalms 78:59 ; Zechariah 11...

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