Lev 19:27-28, 21:5, Jer 16:6, 41:5, 47:5, 1Th 4:13 | TSK

Leviticus 19:27-28

21:5; Isa 15:2; Jer 16:6; 48:37; Eze 7:18; 44:20

cuttings.

21:5; De 14:1; 1Ki 18:28; Jer 16:6; 48:37; Mr 5:5

print.

Re 13:16,17; 14:9,11; 15:2; 16:2; 19:20; 20:4

Leviticus 21:5

not make baldness.This custom is also called rounding the corners of the head, (ch. 19:27,) and seems to have been performed in honour of some idol.

10:6; 19:27,28; De 14:1; Isa 15:2; 22:12; Jer 16:6; 48:37; Eze 44:20

Am 8:10; Mic 1:16

the corner.The Hebrew {peath zakon}, may denote the whiskers; as the Syriac {phatho} signifies. These are by the Arabs, according to Niebuhr, still cut entirely off, or worn quite short; and hence they are called by Jeremiah, [qtswtsy p'h,] those with cropped whiskers. Perhaps some superstition, of which we are ignorant, was connected with this; but whether or not, it was the object of Moses to keep the Israelites distinct from other nations.

Jeremiah 16:6

the great.

13:13; Isa 9:14-17; 24:2; Eze 9:5,6; Am 6:11; Re 6:15; 20:12

they.

4; 22:18,19

nor cut.

7:29; 41:5; 47:5; 48:37; Le 19:28; De 14:1; Isa 22:12

Jeremiah 41:5

came.

2Ki 10:13,14

Shechem.

Ge 33:18; 34:2; Jos 24:32; Jud 9:1; 1Ki 12:1,25

Shiloh.

7:12,14; Jos 18:1

Samaria.

1Ki 16:24,29

their beards.All these were signs of deep mourning; which, though forbidden on funeral occasions, were customary, and perhaps counted allowable, on seasons of public calamity, and this mourning was probably on account of the destruction of Jerusalem.

Le 19:27,28; De 14:1; 2Sa 10:4; Isa 15:2

to the.

1Sa 1:7; 2Ki 25:9; Ps 102:14