Hebrews 13:4; Jeremiah 17:10; Leviticus 1:3; Revelation 2:22; Revelation 2:23
The trial of jealousy. Since the crime of adultery is especially defiling and destructive of the very foundations of social order, the whole subjec...
An Ordeal in Cases of Jealousy. A married woman suspected of unfaithfulness is, in the absence of evidence, to be subjected to an ordeal by being m...
And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:
And the priest, shall bring her near, and set her, &c.— Read, shall bring it near, and set it, &c. see Numbers 5:18 . The holy water,...
And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness again...
Various Ceremonial Laws 1-4. On the seclusion of lepers and unclean persons, see Leviticus 13-15. 5-10. On the law of restitution, see Levitic...
DEFILEMENT AND PURGATION Numbers 5:1-31 THE separation of Israel as a people belonging to Jehovah proceeded on ideas of holiness which excluded...
3. THE WATER OF JEALOUSY Numbers 5:11-31 . The long and remarkable statute regarding the water of jealousy seems to have been interposed to prev...
This section is devoted to arrangements emphasizing the necessity for the purity of the camp on the eve of the coming of the people into the land. Al...
These verses contain a very circumstantial account, of the law of jealousy. The process of trial is very solemn and awful; and the event, suited to t...
And the priest shall bring her near ,.... Or "offer it", as the Vulgate Latin version, that is, the offering of jealousy: and set her before the L...
And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD: Ver. 16. Set her before the Lord. ] Whose the judgment was; that, if guilty, she...
DEFILEMENT CALLING FOR ISOLATION (vs.1-4) The principle of 1 Corinthians 5:6 , "a little leaven leavens the whole lump" was just as true in the...
The Bitter Water of Jealousy. B. C. 1490....
i.e. the woman; but of her he speaks, Numbers 5:18 ; or it, i.e. the offering, which is last spoken of, so the feminine gender is put for the masc...
The Woman Is To Be Brought Near Before Yahweh and the Priest Then Makes the Water of Testing ( Numbers 5:16-17 ) Numbers 5:16 ‘And the priest...
THE EXCLUSION OF THE UNCLEAN ( Numbers 5:1-4 ) “Now that the nation was regularly organised, the sacred tribe dedicated, and the sanctuary with t...
Numbers 5:2 . Defiled by the dead. They were unclean seven days. The whole of Shem's race in India, keep this custom to the present day. Numbers...
If any man’s wife go aside. The trial of the suspected wife I. Confidence in conjugal relations is of great importance. “Suspicion,” says Bp. B...
EXPOSITION THE TRIAL OF JEALOUSY ( Numbers 5:11-4 ). Numbers 5:12 If any man's wife … commit a trespass against him. The adulter...
The Trial of Jealousy
And the priest shall "bring her near, and set her before the Lord, formally place her in the docket as one accused of such a heinous transgression;
Before the Lord — That is, before the sanctuary where the ark was.
16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD: