Deuteronomy 25:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

To raise up unto his brother a name; to revive his brother's name and memory.

Deuteronomy 25:7

7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.