Deuteronomy 21:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 21 How to expiate an uncertain murder, Deuteronomy 21:1-19. The usage of a captive taken to wife, Deuteronomy 21:10-14. The first born, though the son of the hated, is not to be disinherited, Deuteronomy 21:15-17. The punishment of a stubborn son, viz. death, Deuteronomy 21:18-21. The cursed death of them that are hanged, Deuteronomy 21:22,23. In the field, or, in the city, or any place, only the field is named, as the place where such murders are most commonly committed, and most easily concealed.

Deuteronomy 21:1

1 If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him: