Leviticus 27:28-29
no devoted.This is the {cherem,} the absolute, irredeemable grant to God. 21; Ex 22:20; Nu 21:2,3; De 7:1,2; 13:15,16; 20:16,17; 25:19Jos 6:17-19,26; 7:1,11-13,25; Jud 11:30,31; 21:5,11,181Sa 14:24-28,38-45; 15:3,18,32,33; Mt 25:41; Ac 23:12-14; Ro 9:31Co 16:22; Ga 3:10,13 None.Nu 21:2,3; 1Sa 15:18-23which shall be devoted.That is, either that every person devoted to the service of God shall not be redeemed, but die in that devoted state, or, that such as were devoted to death by appointment and law of God, as the Canaanites were, shall be put to death. Judges 5:23
Curse ye.1Sa 26:19; Jer 48:10; 1Co 16:22Meroz.This city of Meroz seems to have been, at this time, a place of considerable importance, since something great was expected from it; but probably, after the angel of the Lord had pronounced this curse, it dwindled and like the fig-tree which Christ cursed, withered away; so that we never read of it after this in Scripture. the angel.2:1; 4:6; 6:11; 13:3; Mt 25:41they came.21:9,10; Ne 3:5to the help.1Sa 17:47; 18:17; 25:28; Ro 15:18; 1Co 3:9; 2Co 6:1 Judges 21:1
1 The people bewail the desolation of Benjamin.8 By the destruction of Jabesh-gilead they provide them four hundred wives.16 They advise the remainder to surprise the virgins that danced at Shiloh. had sworn.20:1,8,10; Jer 4:2There.5; 11:30,31; 1Sa 14:24,28,29; Ec 5:2; Mr 6:23; Ac 23:12; Ro 10:2his daughter.Ex 34:12-16; De 7:2,3 Judges 21:18
sworn.1; 11:35 1 Samuel 11:7
he took.The sending the pieces of the oxen was an act similar to that of the Levite, Jud 19:29, where see the Note. An eminent Scotch writer describes the rites, incantations, and imprecations used prior to the fiery cross being circulated, to summon the rough warriors of ancient times to the service of their chief; and he alludes to this ancient custom, which in comparatively modern times, has been practised in Scotland; and proves that a similar punishment of death, or destruction of their houses, for disobeying the summons, was inflicted by the ancient Scandinavians, as recorded by Olaus Magnus, in his History of the Goths. This bears a striking similarity to the ancient custom of the Israelites. With the Highlanders, a goat was slain; with the Israelites, an ox. The exhibition of a cross, stained with the blood of the sacrificed animal, was the summons of the former, while part of the animal, was the mandate of the latter. Disobedience in one nation was punished with the death of themselves or oxen, and burning of their dwellings in the other. hewed.Jud 19:29Whosoever.Jud 21:5-11the fear.Ge 35:5; 2Ch 14:14; 17:10with one consent. Heb. as one man.Jud 20:1 Jeremiah 48:10
Cursed.50:25; Nu 31:14-18; Jud 5:23; 1Sa 15:3,9,13-35; 1Ki 20:42deceitfully. or, negligently.
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