Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 20:23
And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation which I cast out before you,…. Nation seems to be put for nations, for there were seven nations cast out for them; though the Canaanites may be intended, being a general name for the whole: some think the Amorites are meant, who were a principal nation, and notorious for their wickedness: hence we often meet with this phrase in Jewish writings, “the way of the Amorites”, as being exceeding bad, and so to be avoided, and by no means to be walked in, Ge 15:16;
for they committed all these things; were guilty of all the idolatries, incests, and uncleannesses before mentioned, and forbid under severe penalties:
and therefore I abhorred them; the sins committed by them, being so abominable and detestable: their persons, though the creatures of God, were had in abhorrence by him, and this he showed by casting them out of the land; and hereby it is suggested, that, should they, the Israelites, be guilty of the like, they also would be rejected and abhorred by him: the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan are,
“my Word abhorred them,”
Christ, the eternal Word, Ps 45:7.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
23. Therefore I abhorred them The word kootz signifies to be weary of, to loathe, to be distressed, to abhor; and it heightens the hatefulness of the sins of the Canaanites. How intensely repugnant to the divine mind must those actions be which awaken the emotion of abhorrence! We have no sympathy with the semi-deistic notion that God is a bare and cold intelligence, utterly devoid of sensibilities. To limit him to mere knowledge and volition is to represent him as inferior to man. If man is made in the image of God it must be that the divine prototype is possessed of the capacity of emotion.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Lev 20:23. Ye shall not walk in the manners of the nations, &c. See Gen 9:25.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Lev 20:23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
Ver. 23. See on Lev 18:1-30
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
manners = statutes. It was this that brought down the judgment of extermination. No other remedy would do. These nations were descended from the nephilim (see App-25), who like those who were destroyed by the Flood, were “after that” (Gen 6:4) to be destroyed by the sword of Israel.
nation. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Targum of Onkelos, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read “nations” (plural)
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
in the manners: Lev 18:3, Lev 18:24, Lev 18:30, Deu 12:30, Deu 12:31, Jer 10:1, Jer 10:2
therefore: Lev 18:27, Deu 9:5, Psa 78:59, Zec 11:8
Reciprocal: Lev 26:11 – abhor Lev 26:30 – my soul Num 33:56 – General Deu 12:4 – General 1Ki 21:26 – according to 2Ch 33:2 – like unto Psa 5:5 – thou Psa 106:40 – insomuch Eze 31:11 – I have driven