Exodus 21:23

And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, No JFB commentary on this verse.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The rule would seem to refer to a case in which the wife of a man interfered in a quarrel. This law, “the jus talionis,” is elsewhere repeated in s...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 21:18-27 E. Injuries. If one man injures another in a quarrel ( Exodus 21:18 ), he must, on the recovery of the other, compensate him fo...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

life . soul. Hebrew. nephesh. See App-13.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Book of the Covenant (continued) I-ii. Regulations regarding the Treatment of Hebrew Slaves. Slavery was universal in ancient times, and the M...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Any mischief ] beyond the loss of the child ( Exodus 21:22 ). The law of retaliation ('like for like') is common to all early stages of civilisati...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Life for life, eye for eye. — It is a reasonable conjecture that the law of retaliation was much older than Moses, and accepted by him as tolerable...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(22-25) A personal injury peculiar to women — a hurt producing miscarriage — is here considered. The miscarriage might cost the woman her life, in wh...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XXI. THE LESSER LAW (continued). PART II.--RIGHTS OF THE PERSON. Exodus 21:1-32 . The first words of God from Sinai had declared t...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

At this point we have certain laws which apply the principles of the Decalogue to life. The first movement has to do with the laws of the person. Thi...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The gospel sums up these things in a comprehensive manner. Colossians 3:25 . And our dear Lord folds up the sense of those relative duties, in his u...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And if any mischief follow ,.... According as that is, so shall it be done to the smiter: if death follows, then thou shalt give life for life ; i...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And if [any] mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, Ver. 23. And if any mischief follow. ] Either by death or maim, either of mother...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And yet no mischief follow That is, if the woman die not, as appears from the next verse, or the child was not formed and alive in the womb; he sh...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

RESPONSIBILITIES OF MASTERS (vs.1-11) Moses is now given an expanded view of the law on Chapter s 21-23. Special duties of masters are first cons...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished,...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Any mischief; either to the mother or to the child, whether it be death, or any maim or mischief. Who shall give life for life? Answ . Not the p...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Expansion of the Ten Words of the Covenant ( Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33 ). In this section, which is composed of elements put together mainly...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Regulations Concerning the Causing of Injury ( Exodus 21:22-27 ). This may be analysed as follows: a Where a pregnant woman loses her child in a...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 21:11-19 GOD’S DISAPPROBATION OF BRUTE FORCE.— Exodus 21:22-25 I. One of the great underlying prin...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 21:1 . These are the judgments. In this chapter we enter upon the fifty seven precepts of the civil law of the Hebrew nation. They are the...
The Biblical Illustrator

Life for life. The criminal law: was it written in blood The only sense in which retaliation was authorized was as a maxim of law, which helped...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT .— Continued . I. Laws connected with the rights of persons ( Exodus 21:1-2 ). The regulations...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Concerning Murder and Bodily Injuries
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

life for life Numbers 35:31

²³ And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

Related Commentaries of Exodus 21:23

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 21:23