Leviticus 18:25
the land.Nu 35:33,34; Ps 106:38; Isa 24:5; Jer 2:7; 16:18; Eze 36:17,18Ro 8:22therefore.Ps 89:32; Isa 26:21; Jer 5:9,29; 9:9; 14:10; 23:2; Ho 2:13; 8:13; 9:9vomiteth.28; 20:22Deuteronomy 21:1-8
1 The expiation of an uncertain murder.10 The usage of a captive taken to wife.15 The first-born is not to be disinherited upon private affection.18 A rebellious son is to be stoned to death.22 The malefactor must not hang all night on a tree. Ps 5:6; 9:12; Pr 28:17; Isa 26:21; Ac 28:4 16:18,19; Ro 13:3,4 an.Nu 19:2; Jer 31:18; Mt 11:28-30; Php 2:8 a rough valley.As the word {nachal} signifies both a torrent, and the valley or glen through which it flows, {nachal aithan} may be rendered a rapid torrent. Many torrents in Judea are dry during a great part of the year; when not only their banks but their beds may be ploughed, and yield a crop. Hence there is no impropriety in specifying that such a place should be one that "is neither cared nor sown;" while the circumstance that the elders were to wash their hands over the heifer, whose head had been struck off into the stream, confirms this interpretation. The spot of ground where this sacrifice was made must be uncultivated, because it was considered as a sacrifice for the atonement of murder, and, consequently, would pollute the land. shall strike.1Pe 2:21-24; 3:18 for them.10:8; 18:5; Nu 6:22-27; 1Ch 23:13by their word.17:8-12; Mal 2:7word. Heb. mouth. wash their hands.Washing the hands was anciently a symbolical action, denoting that the person was innocent of the crime in question. Job 9:30; Ps 19:12; 26:6; 51:2,7,14; 73:13; Jer 2:22; Mt 27:24,25Heb 9:10 Nu 5:19-28; 2Sa 16:8; Job 21:21-23,31-34; Ps 7:3,4 lay not.Nu 35:33; 2Sa 3:28; 2Ki 24:4; Ps 19:12; Jer 26:15; Eze 23:3,24,25Jon 1:14; Mt 23:35; 1Th 2:15,16unto thy people. Heb. in the midst.Deuteronomy 21:23
he that is hanged is accursed of God. Heb. the curse of God.That is, it is the highest degree of reproach that can attach to a man, and proclaims him under the curse of God as much as any external punishment can. They that see him thus hanging between heaven and earth, will conclude him abandoned of both, and unworthy of either. Bp. Patrick observes, that this passage is applied to the death of Christ; not only because he bare our sins and was exposed to shame, as these malefactors were that were accursed of God, but because he was in the evening taken down from the cursed tree and buried, (and that by the particular care of the Jews, with an eye to this law, Joh 19:31,) in token, that now the guilt being removed, the law was satisfied, as it was when the malefactors had hanged till sun-set: it demanded no more. Then he, and those that are his, ceased to be a curse. And as the land of Israel was pure and clean when the body was buried, so the church is washed and cleansed by the complete satisfaction which Christ thus made. 7:26; Nu 25:4; Jos 7:12; 2Sa 21:6; Ro 9:3; Ga 3:13; 1Co 16:222Co 5:21thy land.Le 18:25; Nu 35:33,342 Kings 23:26
Notwithstanding.21:11-13; 22:16,17; 24:2,4; 2Ch 36:16; Jer 3:7-10; 15:1-4provocations. Heb. angers.2 Kings 24:4
for the innocent.21:16; Nu 35:33; De 19:10; Jer 2:34; 19:4he filled.Ps 106:38which.Jer 15:1,2; La 3:42; Eze 33:25Psalms 106:28
joined.Nu 25:1-3,5; 31:16; De 4:3; 32:17; Jos 22:17; Ho 9:10; Re 2:14of the dead.The word {maithim} signifies dead men; for the idols of the heathen were generally men,--warriors, kings, or lawgivers,-- who had been deified after their death; though many of them had been execrated during their life. 115:4-8; Jer 10:8-10; 1Co 10:19,20Isaiah 26:21
Lord.18:4; Ps 50:2,3; Eze 8:6; 9:3-6; 10:3-5,18,19; Ho 5:14,15Mic 1:3-8; 2Th 1:7-10; Jude 1:14,15also.Ge 4:10,11; Nu 35:32,33; Job 16:18; Eze 24:7,8; Lu 11:40Re 6:9-11; 16:6; 18:24blood. Heb. bloods.
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