Leviticus 20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Bible Comments
  • Leviticus 20:2 open_in_new

    Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever [he be] of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth [any] of his seed unto (a) Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

    (a) By Molech he means any type of idol, (Leviticus 18:21)

  • Leviticus 20:4 open_in_new

    And if the (c) people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:

    (c) Though the people be negligent to do their duty, and defend God's right, yet he will not allow wickedness to go unpunished.

  • Leviticus 20:6 open_in_new

    And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a (d) whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

    (d) To esteem sorcerers or conjurers is spiritual whoredom, or idolatry.

  • Leviticus 20:9 open_in_new

    For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; (e) his blood [shall be] upon him.

    (e) He is worthy to die.

  • Leviticus 20:14 open_in_new

    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 20:20 open_in_new

    And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die (g) childless.

    (g) They shall be cut off from their people, and their children shall be taken as bastards, and not counted among the Israelites.

  • Leviticus 20:24 open_in_new

    But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that (i) floweth with milk and honey: I [am] the LORD your God, which have separated you from [other] people.

    (i) Full of abundance of all things.

  • Leviticus 20:25 open_in_new

    Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls (k) abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

    (k) By eating them contrary to my commandment.