Leviticus 19:28

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.

Deuteronomy 14:1

1 God's children are not to disfigure themselves in mourning.

3 What may, and what may not be eaten;

4 of beasts;

9 of fishes;

11 of fowls.

21 That which dieth of itself may not be eaten.

22 Tithes of divine service.

23 Tithes and firstlings to be eaten before the Lord.

28 The third year's tithe of alms and charity.

the children.

Ge 6:2,4; Ex 4:22,23; Ps 82:6,7; Jer 3:19; Ho 1:10; Joh 1:12; 11:52

Ro 8:16; 9:8,26; 2Co 6:18; Ga 3:26; Heb 2:10; 1Jo 3:1,2,10; 5:2

ye shall not.The heathen nations not only did these things in honour of their gods, but in grief for the death of a relative.

Le 19:27,28; 21:5; Jer 16:6; 41:5; 47:5; 1Th 4:13

1 Kings 18:28

cut themselves.

Le 19:28; De 14:1; Mic 6:7; Mr 5:5; 9:22

the blood gushed out upon them. Heb. they poured out bloodupon them.

Jeremiah 16:1

1 The prophet, under the types of abstaining from marriage, from houses of mourning and feasting, foreshews the utter ruin of the Jews;

10 because they were worse than their fathers.

14 Their return from captivity shall be stranger than their deliverance out of Egypt.

16 God will doubly recompense their idolatry.

The word.

1:2,4; 2:1

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

Jeremiah 48:37

every head.

16:6; 41:5; 47:5; Isa 3:24; 15:2,3; Eze 7:18; 27:31; Am 8:10

Mic 1:16

clipped. Heb. diminished. cuttings.

Le 19:28; 1Ki 18:28; Mr 5:5

upon the loins.

Ge 37:29,34; 1Ki 21:27; 2Ki 6:30; Isa 20:2; 37:1; Re 11:3

Mark 5:5

crying.

1Ki 18:28; Job 2:7,8; Joh 8:44
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