Gen 37:26-28, Judg 1:7, 1Sa 11:2, Joh 19:31-32, Jam 2:13-16 | TSK | STEP

Genesis 37:26-28

What profit.

25:32; Ps 30:9; Jer 41:8; Mt 16:26; Ro 6:21

conceal.

20; 4:10; De 17:8; 2Sa 1:16; Job 16:18; Eze 24:7

sell him.

22; Ex 21:16,21; Ne 5:8; Mt 16:26; 26:15; 1Ti 1:10; Re 18:13

let not.

1Sa 18:17; 2Sa 11:14-17; 12:9

he is our.

29:14; 42:21

were content. Heb. hearkened.

Midianites.

25; 25:2; Ex 2:16; Nu 25:15,17; 31:2,3,8,9; Jud 6:1-3; Ps 83:9

Isa 60:6

sold.

45:4,5; Ps 105:17; Zec 11:12,13; Mt 26:15; 27:9; Ac 7:9

Judges 1:7

their thumbs. Heb. the thumbs of their hands and of theirfeet. This was not an unusual act of cruelty in ancient times towards enemies.--Ælian informs us, that in after ages "the Athenians, at the instigation of Cleon, son of Cleoenetus, made a decree that all the inhabitants of the island of Ægina should have the thumb cut off from the right hand, so that they might ever after be disabled from holding a spear, yet might handle an oar." It was a custom among those Romans who did not like a military life, to cut off their thumbs, that they might be incapable of serving in the army; and for the same reason, parents sometimes cut off the thumbs of their children.

gathered. or, gleaned. as I have.

Ex 21:23-25; Le 24:19-21; 1Sa 15:33; Isa 33:1; Mt 7:1,2

Lu 6:37,38; Ro 2:15; Jas 2:13; Re 13:10; 16:6

1 Samuel 11:2

On this.

2Ki 18:31

thrust.

Jud 16:21; Ex 3:6; Pr 12:10; Jer 39:7

reproach.

17:26; Ge 34:14

John 19:31-32

because.

14,42; Mt 27:62; Mr 15:42

that the.

De 21:22,23

that sabbath.

Le 23:7-16

their.Lactantius says that it was a custom to break the legs of criminals upon the cross; which was done, we are told, at the instep with an iron mallet; and appears to have been a kind of coup de grace, the sooner to put them out of pain.

1; Pr 12:10; Mic 3:3

of the first.

18; Lu 23:39-43