Leviticus 20:1
The crimes which are condemned in Leviticus 18 ; Leviticus 19 on purely spiritual ground, have here special punishments allotted to them as offe...
Worship of Molech, etc. Offering children to Molech (see Leviticus 18:21 *) is to be punished by stoning; such a death emphasizes the repudiation...
spake. See note on Leviticus 5:14 .
1. And the Lord spake. The prohibition of this superstition was previously expounded in its proper place. God here commands the punishment t...
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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,...
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, No JFB commentary on this verse.
(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...
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...
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...
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...
CONTENTS This Chapter is a continuation of the former, in a repetition of certain laws, with the addition of the threatened punishment to the breach...
When laws are repeated, or when the LORD at any time enforceth his precepts, by a renewed rehearsal, it always should carry with it an evidence of it...
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...
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...
Moral Laws. B. C. 1490. 1 And the L OR...
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...
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...
Social and Moral Crimes SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 20:2 .—Again thou shalt say to the children of Israel. These denunclations of sin (already...
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...
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...
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
For Sins Against the Sixth, Second, and Fourth Commandments
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,