Not known a man, <\/B>to wit, carnally<\/I>: See Poole “Ge 4:1<\/span>; 19:8<\/span>; Lev 18:22<\/span>. <\/P> Keep alive for yourselves; <\/B>either to sell them as slaves to others, or to use them as servants to yourselves, or to marry them, when you have prepared and instructed them. <\/P> <\/p>\n But all the women children<\/strong>,…. The females among the little ones:<\/p>\n that have not known a man by lying with him<\/strong>; which might be pretty clear, and easily concluded, from their age:<\/p>\n keep for yourselves<\/strong>; either to be handmaids to them, or to be married among them when grown up, and become proselytes, and initiated into their religion.<\/p>\n (18) Keep alive for yourselves.<\/strong>The Israelites were allowed to make slaves of their captives. Shortly after the capture of these Midianitish women, and, it may be, as arising out of it, the law concerning marriage with captives was enacted. (See Deu. 21:10-14<\/span>.)<\/p>\n Num 31:18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.<\/p>\n Ver. 18. That have not known a man.<\/strong> ] As far as they could conjecture by their age. But the way of a man with a maid, is one of Solomon’s secrets. Pro 30:19 Of Rebecca it is noted, that she went for a maid, and she was so. Gen 24:16 But Quartilla, the strumpet in Petronius, was not ashamed to say, Iunonem meam iratam habeam, si unquam me meminerim virginem fuisse,<\/em> a<\/em> That she could not remember that ever she was a maid. And what a base slander was that cast upon our religion by an impudent Jesuit, Sylvester Petrasancta, Puellas plerumque corruptas nuptui dari in reformato Evangelio,<\/em> b<\/em> That few maids amongst us come clear to marriage. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n a<\/em> Petron., Satyr.<\/em> <\/p>\n b<\/em> Rivetti Jesuita Vapulans.<\/p>\n keep alive for yourselves: It has been groundlessly asserted, that Moses here authorised the Israelites to make concubines of the whole number of female children; and an insidious objection against his writings has been grounded upon this monstrous supposition. But the whole tenor of the law, and especially a statute recorded in Deu 21:10-14, proves most decisively to the contrary. They were merely permitted to possess them as female slaves, educating them in their families, and employing them as domestics; for the laws concerning fornication, concubinage, and marriage, were in full force, and prohibited an Israelite even from marrying a captive, without delays and previous formalities; and if he afterwards divorced her, he was to set here at liberty, “because he had humbled her.” Lev 25:44, Deu 20:14, Deu 21:10-14, 2Ch 28:8-10, Isa 14:2 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 24:16 – known Deu 20:13 – thou shalt smite Deu 21:11 – that Jdg 21:11 – every male<\/p>\n But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. Not known a man, to wit, carnally: See Poole “Ge 4:1; 19:8; Lev 18:22. Keep alive for yourselves; either to sell them as slaves to others, or to use them as servants to yourselves, or to … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 31:18”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"