Deuteronomy 25:9

loose his shoe.Pulling off the shoe seems to express his being degraded to the situation of slaves, who generally went barefoot; and spitting in or rather before, (biphney) his face, was a mark of the utmost ignominy.

Ru 4:7,8; Isa 20:2; Mr 1:7; Joh 1:27

spit.

Nu 12:14; Job 30:10; Isa 50:6; Mt 26:67; 27:30; Mr 10:34

So shall.

Ge 38:8-10; Ru 4:10,11; 1Sa 2:30

Job 30:10

abhor me.

19:19; 42:6; Ps 88:8; Zec 11:8

flee far.

19:13,14; Ps 88:8; Pr 19:7; Mt 26:56

spare not to spit in my face. Heb. withhold not spittle frommy face.

Nu 12:14; De 25:9; Isa 50:6; Mt 26:67; 27:30

Isaiah 50:6

gave.

La 3:30; Mic 5:1; Mt 5:39; 26:67; 27:26; Mr 14:65; 15:19

Lu 22:63,64; Joh 18:22; Heb 12:2

my cheeks.The eastern people always held the beard in great veneration; and to pluck a man's beard is one of the grossest indignities that can be offered. D'Arvieux gives a remarkable instance of an Arab, who, having received a wound in his jaw, chose to hazard his life rather than suffer the surgeon to cut off his beard. See Note on 2 Sa 10:4.

that plucked.

Ne 13:25

I hid.Another instance of the utmost contempt and detestation. Throughout the East it is highly offensive to spit in any one's presence; and if this is such an indignity, how much more spitting in the face?

Matthew 26:67

did.

27:30; Nu 12:14; De 25:9; Job 30:9-11; Isa 50:6; 52:14; 53:3

Mr 14:65; 15:19; 1Co 4:13; Heb 12:2

buffeted him.[Kolaphizo ,] "smote him with their fists," as Theophylact interprets.

and others.

5:39; 1Ki 22:24; Jer 20:2; La 3:30,45; Lu 22:63; Joh 18:22; 19:3

Ac 23:2,3; 2Co 11:20,21

smote him.[Rhapizo ,] "smote him on the cheek with the open hand," as Suidas renders. They offered him every indignity, in all its various and vexatious forms.

the palms of their hands. or, rods.

Mic 5:1

Hebrews 12:9

fathers.

Joh 3:6; Ac 2:30; Ro 1:3; 9:3,5

corrected.

7

we gave.

Ex 20:12; Le 19:3; De 21:18-21; 27:16; Pr 30:17; Eze 22:7; Eph 6:1-4

shall we not.

Mal 1:6; Jas 4:7,10; 1Pe 5:6

the Father.

Nu 16:22; 27:16; Job 12:10; Ec 12:7; Isa 42:5; 57:16; Zec 12:1
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