Numbers 5:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, ”

Numbers 5:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The trial of jealousy. Since the crime of adultery is especially defiling and destructive of the very foundations of social order, the whole subject is dealt with at a length proportionate to its i...
Numbers 5:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife (e) go aside, and commit a trespass against him, (e) By breaking the band of marriage, and playing the harlot.
Numbers 5:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

An Ordeal in Cases of Jealousy. A married woman suspected of unfaithfulness is, in the absence of evidence, to be subjected to an ordeal by being made to drink holy water with which dust from the f...
Numbers 5:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
Numbers 5:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Numbers 5:12 , &c.— This, says Calmet, is one of the most singular of the laws of Moses; and one which strongly marks out the grossness and obduracy of the Israelites. A husband, who had jus...
Numbers 5:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, If man's wife go aside. This law was given both as a strong discouragement...
Numbers 5:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Various Ceremonial Laws 1-4. On the seclusion of lepers and unclean persons, see Leviticus 13-15. 5-10. On the law of restitution, see Leviticus 5:14 to Leviticus 6:7 , to which the present...
Numbers 5:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

DEFILEMENT AND PURGATION Numbers 5:1-31 THE separation of Israel as a people belonging to Jehovah proceeded on ideas of holiness which excluded from privilege many of the Hebrews themselves. Th...
Numbers 5:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This section is devoted to arrangements emphasizing the necessity for the purity of the camp on the eve of the coming of the people into the land. All that were unclean were put outside the camp This...
Numbers 5:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Is there not somewhat of a spiritual adultery intended also to be conveyed here? As JESUS was the husband of his people: and as He had said, thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for...
Numbers 5:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them ,.... It being an affair which concerned them: if any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him ; the sin of adultery, which is a...
Numbers 5:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, Ver. 12. If any man's wife go aside.] Ad alterum, vel ad alterius torum; unde d...
Numbers 5:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

If a man's wife go aside From the way of piety and virtue, and that either in truth or in her husband's opinion. This law was given partly to deter wives from adulterous practices, and partly to se...
Numbers 5:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

DEFILEMENT CALLING FOR ISOLATION (vs.1-4) The principle of 1 Corinthians 5:6 , "a little leaven leavens the whole lump" was just as true in the Old Testament as in the new. However, the defileme...
Numbers 5:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Bitter Water of Jealousy. B. C. 1490. 11 And the L ORD spake unto Moses, saying,...
Numbers 5:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This law was given partly to deter wives from adulterous practices, and partly to secure wives against the rage of their hard-hearted husbands, who otherwise might upon mere suspicions destroy them,...
Numbers 5:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Maintaining Harmony In The Camp: The Law of Jealousy ( Numbers 5:11-31 ). Primary with regard to trespasses against a neighbour was to trespass against his wife. This was an especially heinous tr...
Numbers 5:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE EXCLUSION OF THE UNCLEAN ( Numbers 5:1-4 ) “Now that the nation was regularly organised, the sacred tribe dedicated, and the sanctuary with the tokens of God’s more immediate Presence provide...
Numbers 5:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 5:2 . Defiled by the dead. They were unclean seven days. The whole of Shem's race in India, keep this custom to the present day. Numbers 5:6 . Any sin that men commit; through ignoranc...
Numbers 5:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

If any man’s wife go aside. The trial of the suspected wife I. Confidence in conjugal relations is of great importance. “Suspicion,” says Bp. Babington, “is the cut-throat and poison of all lov...
Numbers 5:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE TRIAL OF JEALOUSY ( Numbers 5:11-4 ). Numbers 5:12 If any man's wife … commit a trespass against him. The adultery of the wife is here regarded only from a social...
Numbers 5:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Trial of Jealousy
Numbers 5:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 5:19 ; Numbers 5:20 ; Proverbs 2:16 ; Proverbs 2:17
Numbers 5:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

If a man's wife — This law was given partly to deter wives from adulterous practices, and partly to secure wives against the rage of their hard — hearted husbands, who otherwise might upon mere sus...

Numbers 5:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Numbers 5:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Numbers 5:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 5:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 5:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Numbers 5:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 5:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 5:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Numbers 5:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 5:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 5:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 5:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Numbers 5:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 5:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 5:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 5:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 5:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 5:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 5:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 5:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Numbers 5:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 5:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 5:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 5:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes