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Selected Verse: Deuteronomy 25:1 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| De 25:1 |
Strong Concordance |
If there be a controversy [07379] between men [0582], and they come [05066] unto judgment [04941], that the judges may judge [08199] them; then they shall justify [06663] the righteous [06662], and condemn [07561] the wicked [07563]. |
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King James |
If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Render it:
(1) If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them, and justify the righteous and condemn the wicked (compare the marginal reference. and Exo 23:7; Pro 17:15);
(2) then it shall be, etc.
Deu 25:2
Scourging is named as a penalty in Lev 19:20. The beating here spoken of would be on the back with a rod or stick (compare Pro 10:13; Pro 19:29; Pro 26:3). |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
Corporal Punishment. - The rule respecting the corporal punishment to be inflicted upon a guilty man is introduced in Deu 25:1 with the general law, that in a dispute between two men the court was to give right to the man who was right, and to pronounce the guilty man guilty (cf. Exo 22:8 and Exo 23:7).
Deu 25:2
If the guilty man was sentenced to stripes, he was to receive his punishment in the presence of the judge, and not more than forty stripes, that he might not become contemptible in the eyes of the people. הכּות בּן, son of stripes, i.e., a man liable to stripes, like son (child) of death, in Sa1 20:31. "According to the need of his crime in number," i.e., as many stripes as his crime deserved.
Deu 25:3
"Forty shall ye beat him, and not add," i.e., at most forty stripes, and not more. The strokes were administered with a stick upon the back (Pro 10:13; Pro 19:29; Pro 26:3, etc.). This was the Egyptian mode of whipping, as we may see depicted upon the monuments, when the culprits lie flat upon the ground, and being held fast by the hands and feet, receive their strokes in the presence of the judge (vid., Wilkinson, ii. p. 11, and Rosellini, ii. 3, p. 274, 78). The number forty was not to be exceeded, because a larger number of strokes with a stick would not only endanger health and life, but disgrace the man: "that thy brother do not become contemptible in thine eyes." If he had deserved a severer punishment, he was to be executed. In Turkey the punishments inflicted are much more severe, viz., from fifty to a hundred lashes with a whip; and they are at the same time inhuman (see v. Tornauw, Moslem. Recht, p. 234). The number, forty, was probably chosen with reference to its symbolical significance, which it had derived from Gen 7:12 onwards, as the full measure of judgment. The Rabbins fixed the number at forty save one (vid., Co2 11:24), from a scrupulous fear of transgressing the letter of the law, in case a mistake should be made in the counting; yet they felt no conscientious scruples about using a whip of twisted thongs instead of a stick (vid., tract. Macc. iii. 12; Buxtorf, Synag. Jud. pp. 522-3; and Lundius, Jd. Heiligth. p. 472). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Justify - Acquit him from guilt and false accusations, and free him from punishment. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| They shall justify the righteous - This is a very important passage, and is a key to several others. The word צדק tsadak is used here precisely in the same sense in which St. Paul sometimes uses the corresponding word δικαιοω, not to justify or make just, but to acquit, declare innocent, to remit punishment, or give reasons why such a one should not be punished; so here the magistrates הצדיקו hitsdiku, shall acquit, the righteous - declare him innocent, because he is found to be righteous and not wicked: so the Septuagint: και δικαιωσουσιν τον δικαιον they shall make righteous the righteous - declare him free from blame, not liable to punishment, acquitted; using the same word with St. Paul when he speaks of a sinner's justification, i. e., his acquittance from blame and punishment, because of the death of Christ in his stead. |
3 A whip [07752] for the horse [05483], a bridle [04964] for the ass [02543], and a rod [07626] for the fool's [03684] back [01460].
29 Judgments [08201] are prepared [03559] for scorners [03887], and stripes [04112] for the back [01460] of fools [03684].
13 In the lips [08193] of him that hath understanding [0995] wisdom [02451] is found [04672]: but a rod [07626] is for the back [01460] of him that is void [02638] of understanding [03820].
20 And whosoever [0376] lieth [07901] carnally [02233] [07902] with a woman [0802], that is a bondmaid [08198], betrothed [02778] to an husband [0376], and not at all [06299] redeemed [06299], nor freedom [02668] given [05414] her; she shall be scourged [01244]; they shall not be put to death [04191], because she was not free [02666].
2 And it shall be, if the wicked man [07563] be worthy [01121] to be beaten [05221], that the judge [08199] shall cause him to lie down [05307], and to be beaten [05221] before his face [06440], according [01767] to his fault [07564], by a certain number [04557].
15 He that justifieth [06663] the wicked [07563], and he that condemneth [07561] the just [06662], even they both [08147] are abomination [08441] to the LORD [03068].
7 Keep thee far [07368] from a false [08267] matter [01697]; and the innocent [05355] and righteous [06662] slay [02026] thou not: for I will not justify [06663] the wicked [07563].