Numbers 5:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;

Ver. 21. Thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell.] God takes notice of the offending member; as he did in those blasphemers, who gnawed their tongues; Rev 16:10 Absalom's hair; Jeroboam's hand; the adulterer's loins; Pro 5:11 Zimri and Cozbi, thrust through the belly. Num 25:8 Charles II, King of Navarre, Joan, Queen of Naples, &c., suffered as they sinned.

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Numbers 5:21

21 Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot,b and thy belly to swell;