Bible Commentary

Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people. 2. This command is anticipated by an editor in Num 25:16 ff. See note there. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges The Midianites – The Moabites are not included. It would thus seem that it was the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 31:2”

And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, 1 18. The utter destruction of every Midianite, with the exception of the virgins who are to be kept as spoil. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Num 31:1-12 They warred against the Midianites. The vengeance of Jehovah on Midian I. That in the administration of … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 31:1”

These [are] the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, [being yet] in her youth in her father’s house. Verse 16. These are the statutes] It is very probable that this law, like that concerning the succession of daughters, (Nu 27:1-11), rose from the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 30:16”

But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard [them]; then he shall bear her iniquity. 15. If, after tacitly consenting at the time that he heard of the vow, he compels her at a later time to break it, then Jehovah will not (as in the foregoing cases) forgive, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 30:15”

But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which [are] upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard [them]. But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 30:14”

Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void. 13. to afflict the soul ] See on Num 29:7. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Afflict the soul, i.e. herself by fasting, which oft goes under that name, as Lev … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 30:13”

But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard [them; then] whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her. Verse 12. Concerning the bond of her soul] … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 30:12”

And her husband heard [it], and held his peace at her, [and] disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand. And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not,…. Heard her make her vow, and bind it with … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 30:11”

And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath; In her husbands house, i.e. if she that now is a widow, or divorced, made that vow whilst her husband lived with her; as suppose she then vowed, that if she was a widow, she would give … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 30:10”

But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her. Though she be in her fathers house, whither such persons oft returned; which limitation may be gathered both from the opposition of her being in her husbands house, Num 30:10, and from hence, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 30:9”