Numbers 5:24 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter. ”

Numbers 5:24 - 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 5:24 - 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 5:24 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

become bitter . turn to bitterness.
Numbers 5:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter. The bitter water that causeth the curse...
Numbers 5:24 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And become bitter— And become is not in the Hebrew: the word is למרים lemarim,—in amaritudinem,—for bitterness; and by a comparison of the 27th verse, it appears that this alteration in the phr...
Numbers 5:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water: Write these curses in a book. The imprecations, along with her name, were inscribed in som...
Numbers 5:24 - 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 5:24 - 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 5:24 - 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 5:24 - 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 5:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse ,..... Having the curse imprecated upon herself, if guilty, scraped into it; and this she was obliged to drink, whether...
Numbers 5:24 - 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 5:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Bitter Water of Jealousy. B. C. 1490. 11 And the L ORD spake unto Moses, saying,...
Numbers 5:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

To drink, to wit, after the jealousy-offering was offered, as is affirmed, Numbers 5:26 .
Numbers 5:24 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Woman Is To Be Made to Drink Of The Water of Testing Before Yahweh ( Numbers 5:23-24 ). Numbers 5:23 ‘And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the...
Numbers 5:24 - 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 5:24 - 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 5:24 - 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 5:24 - 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 5:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Trial of Jealousy
Numbers 5:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Malachi 3:5 ; Zechariah 5:3 ; Zechariah 5:4
Numbers 5:24 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

To drink — That is, after the jealousy — offering was offered.

Numbers 5:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Numbers 5:24 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 5:24 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Numbers 5:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 5:24 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Numbers 5:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 5:24 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 5:24 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Numbers 5:24 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 5:24 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 5:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 5:24 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 5:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 5:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 5:24 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 5:24 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 5:24 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 5:24 - The Biblical Illustrator

Numbers 5:24 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 5:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 5:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 5:24 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes