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Deuteronomy 25:1 open_in_new
men. Hebrew, plural of. i. h, or 'enosh. App-14.
shall justify. Compare Deuteronomy 16:18; Deuteronomy 17:8; Exodus 23:7; Proverbs 17:15.
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Deuteronomy 25:3 open_in_new
Forty stripes. To ensure obedience to this law, tradition made the stripes 39, and gave three strokes with. thong of thirteen cords. Compare 2 Corinthians 11:24.
vile. mean, or lightly esteemed.
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Deuteronomy 25:4 open_in_new
See the Structure, "Threshing" for this verse in the book comments for Deuteronomy.
not muzzle. Animals generally muzzled in the East. Compare 1 Corinthians 9:9; 1 Timothy 5:18.
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Deuteronomy 25:5 open_in_new
If brethren, &c. Compare Genesis 38:8; Ruth 4:5, &c. Matthew 22:24.Mark 12:19; Luke 20:28.
stranger. foreigner.
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Deuteronomy 25:6 open_in_new
put out. blotted out.
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Deuteronomy 25:13 open_in_new
divers weights. Hebrew. stone and. stone. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), for any weight. App-6.
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Deuteronomy 25:14 open_in_new
divers measures. Hebrew an ephah and an ephah. Compare Leviticus 19:35; Leviticus 19:36; Proverbs 11:1; Proverbs 20:10. See App-51.
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Deuteronomy 25:15 open_in_new
in the land. on the soil or ground.
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Deuteronomy 25:17 open_in_new
Remember. Compare Exodus 17:8-16. An event ordered to be written down,
Amalek. Name of. man, put for his posterity, by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6.
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Deuteronomy 25:19 open_in_new
blot out. Fulfilled in the time of Esther in 462 B.C. See App-50.
remembrance. Hebrew. zekar, not zaka r, males; as Joab seems to have understood it in 1Ki 11:15, 1 Kings 11:16.
Amalek. Compare 1 Samuel 15:2; 1 Samuel 15:3.Numbers 24:20.