Deu 16:18, 1Ki 21:8-14 | TSK | STEP | Judges. in all thy gates.This expression may refer to the gate of the city, as the forum or place of public concourse among the Israelites, where a court of judicature was held, to try all causes and decide all affairs. The same practice obtained among other Eastern nations. The Ottoman court, it is well known, derived its appellation of the {Porte,} from the distribution of justice and the dispatch of public business at its gates. And the square tower which forms the principal entrance to the Alhamra, or red palace of the Moorish kings of Grenada, retains to this day the appellation of the Gate of judgment, from its having been the place where justice was at one period summarily administered.

Deuteronomy 16:18

Judges.

1:15-17; 17:9,12; 19:17,18; 21:2; Ex 18:25,26; 21:6; 1Ch 23:4; 26:29

in all thy gates.This expression may refer to the gate of the city, as the forum or place of public concourse among the Israelites, where a court of judicature was held, to try all causes and decide all affairs. The same practice obtained among other Eastern nations. The Ottoman court, it is well known, derived its appellation of the {Porte,} from the distribution of justice and the dispatch of public business at its gates. And the square tower which forms the principal entrance to the Alhamra, or red palace of the Moorish kings of Grenada, retains to this day the appellation of the Gate of judgment, from its having been the place where justice was at one period summarily administered.

1 Kings 21:8-14

she wrote.

2Sa 11:14,15; 2Ch 32:17; Ezr 4:7,8,11; Ne 6:5; Es 3:12-15; 8:8-13

the elders.

Nu 11:16; De 16:18,19; 21:1-9

the nobles.

1; 2Ki 10:1-7,11

Proclaim a fast.

Ge 34:13-17; Isa 58:4; Mt 2:8; 23:14; Lu 20:47; Joh 18:28

on high among. Heb. in the top of.

two men.

De 19:15; Mt 26:59,60; Ac 6:11

sons of Belial.

De 13:13; Jud 19:22

Thou didst blaspheme.Some, with Parkhurst, would render the original, {bairachta elohim wamailech,} "Thou hast blessed the gods and Molech;" a sense, however, which seems extremely forced, and is not acknowledged by any of the ancient versions, though the LXX. and Vulgate render {bairachta} by [eulogese,] {benedixit,} "blessed." It is no unusual thing for a word to have opposite senses.

Ex 22:28; Le 24:15; Mt 26:59-66; Joh 10:33; Ac 6:13

did as Jezebel.

Ex 1:17,21; 23:1,2; Le 19:15; 1Sa 22:17; 23:20; 2Ki 10:6,7

2Ch 24:21; Pr 29:12,26; Da 3:18-25; Ho 5:11; Mic 6:16; Mt 2:12,16

Ac 4:19; 5:29

8-10; Isa 58:4

the men of Belial.

Ex 20:16; De 5:20; 19:16-21; Ps 27:12; 35:11; Pr 6:19; 19:5,9; 25:18

Mal 3:5; Mr 14:56-59

blaspheme God.

Job 1:5,11; 2:9; Mt 9:3; Ac 6:11

the king.

Ec 10:20; Isa 8:21; Am 7:10; Lu 23:2; Joh 19:12; Ac 24:5

they carried him.

Le 24:11-16; Nu 15:35,36; De 13:10; 21:21; 22:21,24; Jos 7:24,25

2Ki 9:26; Ec 4:1; Ac 7:57-59

Naboth is stoned.

2Sa 11:14-24; Ec 5:8; 8:14