Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 109:13

Let his posterity be cut off; [and] in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

13. Cp. Psa 37:28; Psa 37:38; Job 18:13-21. May his sons die childless, and in the next generation their name be removed from the register of citizens. Cp. Psa 69:28. An Israelite, with his strong sense of family solidarity, looked forward to living on in his descendants; and the extinction of the family was contemplated as the most terrible of calamities. P.B.V. ‘ his name,’ follows the Vulg. from the LXX.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Let his posterity be cut off – To have a numerous posterity, to have the name and family perpetuated, was regarded among the Hebrews as one of the greatest and most desirable blessings. Hence, to pray that all ones family might be cut off was one of the severest forms of malediction which could be employed.

And in the generation following – The very next generation. Let not his family be perpetuated at all.

Let their name be blotted out – As a name is erased from a catalogue or muster-roll when one dies.

Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible

Verse 13. Let his posterity be cut off] It is a fact that the distinction among the Jewish tribes in entirely lost. Not a Jew in the world knows from what tribe he is sprung; and as to the royal family, it remains nowhere but in the person of Jesus the Messiah. He alone is the Lion of the tribe of Judah. Except as it exists in him, the name is blotted out.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

In the generation following, Heb. in another generation; either in the third generation, or in the second, or that which next followed the generation of his fathers. So in this clause he limits the time of that destruction which he imprecates or foretells in the former.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

13. posterityliterally,”end,” as in Ps 37:38,or, what comes after; that is, reward, or success, or itsexpectation, of which posterity was to a Jew a prominent part.

Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Let his posterity be cut off,…. As the seed of the wicked are said to be, Ps 37:28, or cut down, as a tree to the very root; as the Jewish nation was by the axe of God’s judgment, which, John says, was laid to the root of the tree, and the blow just going to be given, as it was in a few years after, Mt 3:10 or, as the Targum,

“let his end be for destruction;”

and so the Syriac version, “let their end be for destruction”; their last end, which it is said shall be cut off, and issue in death, eternal death; when the end of a good man is peace and eternal life, see Ps 37:37.

And in the generation following let their name be blotted out: or, in another age d; the next age, the third generation; meaning the name of the posterity of Judas, and the name of the people of the Jews, so as to be spoken of with honour and reputation; but, instead of that, they are for a taunt, a proverb, and a curse, in all places.

d “in generatione altera”, Pagninus, Montanus, &c.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

13. Let his posterity be cut off. This is a continuation of the same subject, upon the consideration of which the prophet had just now entered, that God would visit the iniquities of the fathers upon their children. And as he had to deal with the whole court of Saul, and not with any single individual, he here employs the plural number. But as in deeds of wickedness, there are always some who are the prime movers, and act as the ringleaders of others, we need not be surprised that having spoken of one person, he next addresses the many, and then returns to the same person. The more natural and simple mode of explanation is to refer it to his offspring, for the Hebrew term which signifies posterity is collective, implying a multitude, and not a single individual only. This is a heavier imprecation than the former. It sometimes happens, that a family, overthrown by an unexpected disaster, rises up again at a subsequent period; here, however, it is the wish of the prophet, that the wicked may be so completely ruined, as never to be able to regain their former state; for thus much is implied in their name being effaced in the next generation, or after the lapse of ages.

Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary

(13) Posterity.The Hebrew theory of the Divine government was, that if ruin did not overtake the sinner himself, it would fall on his posterity; his name would be forgotten, and his race extinct.

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

13. Posterity be cut off The word “posterity” literally signifies the end, or future of the man, and the form answers to Psa 37:38, “ The end of the wicked shall be cut off.” But the second member requires the sense of “posterity,” as in the English version, (Septuagint, , their children,) which sense the Hebrew admits, though it is of extreme rarity.

The idea is, in one generation his family name shall be blotted out. Thus his future shall be cut off. And this implies also the extinction of all his hopes and plans.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psa 109:13 Let his posterity be cut off; [and] in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Ver. 13. Let his posterity be cut Off ] Sit eius exitus excidium, so some render it, let his end be destruction; and it is better to take it, as we translate, “Let his posterity,” &c. Let them be razed and rooted out of remembrance, they and their whole race.

Let their name be blotted out ] That they may not live, so much as by fame. The Edomites, Moabites, Ammonites, have no memorial but what they have in the Bible, and that is for no good. And the like may be said of Meroz, Jdg 5:23 , which seemeth to have been some city near the place where the battle was fought; but what it was none can determine, since there is no mention elsewhere to be found of it, which seemeth to be an effect of that bitter curse pronounced against it. See Pro 10:7 .

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

their name. Some codices, with Septuagint and Vulgate, read “His name”.

Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics

Let his: Psa 37:28, 1Sa 2:31-33, 1Sa 3:13, 2Ki 10:10, 2Ki 10:11, Job 18:19, Isa 14:20-22, Jer 22:30

their name: Deu 9:14, Deu 25:19, Deu 29:20, Pro 10:7

Reciprocal: Exo 32:33 – my book Lev 20:20 – childless Num 27:4 – Why Deu 25:6 – that his name 2Sa 18:18 – I have no son Est 9:10 – ten sons Job 18:17 – General Job 27:14 – children Job 31:8 – let my Psa 21:10 – General Psa 109:15 – cut off Ecc 6:4 – his name Isa 26:14 – and made Isa 48:19 – his name Jer 11:19 – that his Hos 13:15 – his spring Amo 6:9 – if Nah 1:14 – that Rev 3:5 – blot

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psa 109:13-15. Let his posterity, &c. His posterity shall be cut off, &c: they suffered an excision by the Roman sword, and in the generation following, their name, as a church, and civil polity, were blotted out of the list of states and kingdoms. Let the iniquity of his father be remembered Hebrew, , it shall be remembered against him, or punished in him, as God had threatened to deal with great delinquents, Exo 20:5. Let them be , they shall be, namely, the sins of his parents last mentioned; before the Lord In Gods sight and memory, to provoke him to punish them: they shall not be covered nor pardoned. That upon them, as Christ foretold, might come all the righteous blood shed from the blood of righteous Abel; &c., Mat 22:25. For the blood of the prophets cried for vengeance against those who crucified the Lord of the prophets.

Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments