Deuteronomy 22:20-24 KJV,NLT

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:13-30

These laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint by laying a penalty upon those fleshly lusts which war against the soul. I. If a man, lusting after another woman, to get rid of his wife slander her and falsely accuse her, as not having the virginity she pretended to when he married her, upon the disproof of his slander he must be punished, Deut. 22:13-19. What the meaning of that evidence is by which the husband's accusation was to be proved false the learned are not agreed,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:20

But if this thing be true ,.... Which the husband of the damsel laid to her charge, that she was no virgin when married to him, and she had committed whoredom, of which there was plain proof: and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel ; by her parents, or those who had the care of her; or no sufficient reason could be assigned for the want of them, through any family defect, or any disorder of her own; which, as Maimonides F26 Hilchot Ishot, c. 11. sect. 12. says, the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:21

Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house ,.... For his greater disgrace, and as a sort of punishment for his neglect of her education, not taking care to instruct her, and bring her up in a better manner: and the men of her city shall stone her with stones, that she die ; which was the death this sort of adulteresses were put to; others was by strangling, and the daughter of a priest was to be burnt; see Leviticus 20:10 , which shows that this sin was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:22

If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband ,..... This law respects adultery, and is the same with that in Leviticus 20:10 . then they shall both of them die ; with the strangling of a napkin, as the Targum of Jonathan, which is the death such persons were put to; and is always meant when death is simply spoken of, and it is not specified what death; See Gill on Leviticus 20:10 , both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman ; they were both to die, and to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:23

If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband ,.... But not married, not as yet brought home to her husband's house, and the marriage consummated; for the Jews distinguish between being betrothed or espoused, and married; and generally there was some time between the one and the other. And a wife was obtained in this way by three things; by money, which was the most usual; and by writing, which was to be done before witnesses, and with her consent; and by copulation, which,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:24

Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of the city ,.... Where the fact was committed; the Targum of Jonathan is,"to the gate of the court of judicature, which is in that city:" and ye shall stone them with stones, that they die ; a man that lay with a married woman, he and she were to be strangled; but this sort of adulterers and adulteresses were to be stoned, and it is thought that of this sort was the woman spoken of in John 8:3 , the damsel because she cried not, being... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 22:22

Shall both of them die - Thus we find that in the most ancient of all laws adultery was punished with death in both the parties. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 22:20

Verse 20 20.But if this thing be true. If the punishment should seem to anybody to be somewhat too severe, let him reflect that no kind of fraud is more intolerable. A false sale of a field or a house shall be accounted a crime, as also the utterance of false money; and, therefore, she who abuses the sacred name of marriage for deception, and offers an unchaste body instead of a chaste one, much less deserves to be pardoned. The cause of severity, however, which is expressly mentioned, is much... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 22:22

Verse 22 Deuteronomy 22:22.If a man be found lying with. A Political Supplement, whereby it appears how greatly God abominates adultery, since He denounces capital punishment against it. And assuredly, since marriage is a covenant consecrated by God, its profanation is in no wise tolerable; and conjugal faith should be held too sacred to be violated with impunity, whilst it is an act of horrible perfidiousness to snatch from a man’s bosom the wife who is as his very life, or at any rate half of... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 22:23

Verse 23 23.If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed. The severity of the punishment is now extended further, and a betrothed woman is counted as a wife; and this for a very good reason, because she has plighted her troth, and it is a token of abandoned incontinency for the mind of a woman to be so alienated from the man to whom she is betrothed, as to prostitute her virginity to another’s embraces. But since one who has been ravished is not criminal, a woman is absolved if she be forced in a... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:13-30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:24

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 22:22

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 22:20

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 22:22

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 22:23

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