Leviticus 25:44
Ex 12:44; Ps 2:8,9; Isa 14:1,2; Re 2:26,27Deuteronomy 20:14
the women.Nu 31:9,12,18,35-54; Jos 8:2; 11:14; 2Ch 14:13-15; 20:25; Ps 68:12Ro 8:37take unto thyself. Heb. spoil. thou shalt eat.Jos 22:8Deuteronomy 21:10-14
thou goest.20:10-16 desire.Ge 6:2; 12:14,15; 29:18-20; 34:3,8; Jud 14:2,3; Pr 6:25; 31:10,30that.Nu 31:18 and she shall.This was in token of renouncing her religion, and becoming a proselyte to that of the Jews. This is still a custom in the East: when a Christian turns Mohammedan, his head is shaved, and he is carried through the city, crying, {la eelah eela allah wemochammed resoolu 'llahee,} "There is no God but the God, and Mohammed is the prophet of God." 1Co 11:6; Eph 4:22pare her nails. or, suffer to grow. Heb. make, or dress.{Wëâsethah eth tzipparneyha,} "and she shall make her nails;" i.e., probably neither paring nor letting them grow, but dressing or beautifying them as the Eastern women still do by tinging them with the leaves of an odoriferous plant called {alhenna,} which Hasselquist (p. 246) informs us, "grows in India and in upper and lower Egypt, flowering from May to August. The leaves are pulverized and made into a paste with water: they bind this paste on the nails of their hands and feet, and keep it on all night. This gives them a deep yellow, which is greatly admired by Eastern nations. The colour lasts for three or four weeks before there is occasion to renew it. The custom is so ancient in Egypt, that I have seen the nails of mummies dyed in this manner." and bewail.Ps 45:10,11; Lu 14:26,27 thou shalt.Ex 21:7-11because thou.22:19,24,29; Ge 34:2; Jud 19:242 Chronicles 28:8-10
carried.De 28:25,41brethren.11:4; Ac 7:26; 13:26 he went out.19:1,2; 25:15,16; 1Ki 20:13,22,42; 2Ki 20:14,15Behold.To this beautiful speech nothing can be added by the best comment: it is simple, humane, pious, and overwhelmingly convincing; and it is no wonder that it produced the effect here described. That there was much humanity, as well as firmness, in the heads of the children of Ephraim, who joined with the prophet of Jehovah on this occasion, their subsequent conduct, as detailed in the fifteenth verse, sufficiently proves. They did not barely dismiss these most unfortunate captives, but they took that very spoil which their victorious army had taken, and with clothed, shod, fed, and anointed these distressed people, set the feeblest of them upon asses, and escorted them safely to Jericho! We can scarcely find a parallel to this in the universal history of the wars which savage man has carried on against his fellows from the foundation of the world. The compliance also of the whole army, in leaving both the captives and spoil to the disposal of the princes, was really wonderful, and perhaps unparalleled in history. Both the princes and army are worthy to be held up to the admiration and imitation of mankind. because the Lord God.5; Jud 3:8; Ps 69:26; Isa 10:5-7; 47:6; Jer 15:17,18; Eze 25:12-17Eze 26:2,3; Ob 1:10-16; Zec 1:15reacheth.Ge 4:10; 11:4; Ezr 9:6; Re 18:5 keep.Le 25:39-46not with.Jer 25:29; Mt 7:2-4; Ro 12:20,21; 1Pe 4:17,18the Lord.5Isaiah 14:2
and the house.18:7; 60:9-12; 61:5; Ezr 2:65; Ro 15:27; 2Co 8:4,5; Ga 5:13and they.Ps 68:18; 2Co 10:5; Eph 4:8whose captives they were. Heb. that had taken them captives.they shall rule over. 60:14; Jer 30:16; Da 7:18,25-27; Zec 14:2,3; Re 3:9; 11:11-18Re 18:20-24
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