Numbers 5:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband: ”

Numbers 5:20 - 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 5:20 - 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 5:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
Numbers 5:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The priest shall charge her by an oath, &c.— These two verses, and the two following, contain a species or formula of summons or adjuration, which the priest tendered to the person accused: a f...
Numbers 5:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free...
Numbers 5:20 - 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 5:20 - 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 5:20 - 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 5:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

These verses contain a very circumstantial account, of the law of jealousy. The process of trial is very solemn and awful; and the event, suited to the nature of the dispensation, under which the chu...
Numbers 5:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband ,.... Gone aside from the paths of modesty and chastity, and betook herself to another man's bed instead of her husband's: and if thou...
Numbers 5:20 - 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 5:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Bitter Water of Jealousy. B. C. 1490. 11 And the L ORD spake unto Moses, saying,...
Numbers 5:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Numbers 5:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Priest Now Charges Her With an Oath to Speak Truly ( Numbers 5:19-20 ). Numbers 5:19-20 ‘And the priest shall cause her to swear, and shall say to the woman, If no man has lain with you, a...
Numbers 5:20 - 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 5:20 - 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 5:20 - 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 5:20 - 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 5:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Trial of Jealousy

Numbers 5:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Numbers 5:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 5:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 5:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Numbers 5:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 5:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 5:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Numbers 5:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 5:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 5:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 5:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 5:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 5:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 5:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 5:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 5:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 5:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

Numbers 5:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 5:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann