Leviticus 20:1

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This Chapter is a continuation of the former, in a repetition of certain laws, with the addition of the threatened punishment to the breaches of them; and concluding with a more comprehensive demand of uniform holiness.

Related Commentaries of Leviticus 20:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The crimes which are condemned in Leviticus 18 ; Leviticus 19 on purely spiritual ground, have here special punishments allotted to them as offe...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Worship of Molech, etc. Offering children to Molech (see Leviticus 18:21 *) is to be punished by stoning; such a death emphasizes the repudiation...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

spake. See note on Leviticus 5:14 .
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1. And the Lord spake. The prohibition of this superstition was previously expounded in its proper place. God here commands the punishment t...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And the Lord spake, &c.— In ch. Leviticus 18:21 this dedication of children to Molech, is forbidden in more general terms. It is there said,...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, No JFB commentary on this verse.
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 st...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

XX. (1) And the Lord spake unto Moses. — It is difficult to account for the position of this chapter. Naturally we should expect it to follow L...
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 consc...
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 sente...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the Lord spake unto Moses ,.... After he had delivered the above laws to him in the preceding chapter, he added penalties, to many of them, or d...
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 certa...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Moral Laws. B. C. 1490. 1 And the L OR...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

LEVITICUS CHAPTER 20 Israelites must not offer their children to Molech on pain of death, Leviticus 20:1-3 ; which if not inflicted by the magis...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 20:1 ‘And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,' It is again stressed that these are God's word, given to Moses. They possibly indicate anoth...
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...
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 hi...
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 cr...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For Sins Against the Sixth, Second, and Fourth Commandments
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Leviticus 20:1

¹ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

Related Commentaries of Leviticus 20:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 20:1