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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Deuteronomy 24

Chapter 24

When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

hath taken

21:15 22:13 Exodus 21:10

uncleanness

Heb. matter of nakedness. then let him.

3 Jeremiah 3:8 Matthew 5:31,32 19:7-9 Mark 10:4-12

divorcement

Heb. cutting off.

Isaiah 50:1

send her

22:19,29 Malachi 2:16 Matthew 1:19 Luke 16:18 1 Corinthians 7:11,12

And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.

she may go

Leviticus 21:7,14 22:13 Numbers 30:9 Ezekiel 44:22 Matthew 5:32 Mark 10:11 1 Corinthians 7:15

Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

Her former

Jeremiah 3:1

thou shalt

Leviticus 18:24-28 Joshua 22:17,18

When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

a man

20:7 Genesis 2:24 Matthew 19:4-6 Mark 10:6-9 1 Corinthians 7:10-15 Ephesians 5:28,29 Titus 2:4,5

neither, etc

Heb. not any thing shall pass upon him. cheer up.

Proverbs 5:18 Ecclesiastes 9:9 1 Corinthians 7:29

No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.

shall take

Small hand-mills, which ground at one time only a sufficient quantity for a day's consumption; hence they were forbidden to take either of the stones to pledge, because if they did, they would be deprived of the means of preparing their necessary food, and the family be without bread. On this account they are called in the text, a man's life. The same reason holds good against receiving in pledge, or distraining for debt, any instrument of labour, by which men earn their livelihood.

Exodus 22:26,27 Revelation 18:22

life

20:19 Genesis 44:30 Luke 12:15

If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.

found

Exodus 21:16 Ezekiel 27:13 1 Timothy 1:10 Revelation 18:13

then that

Exodus 21:16 22:1-4

and thou shalt

19:19

Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.

Leviticus 13:1-14 Matthew 8:4 Mark 1:44 Luke 5:14 17:14

Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.

Remember

Luke 17:32 1 Corinthians 10:6,11

Miriam

Numbers 5:2 12:10-15 2 Kings 7:3 2 Chronicles 26:20,21

When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

When

15:8

lend thy brother any thing

Heb. lend the loan of any thing to thy brother.

And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

17 Job 22:6 24:3,9

In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.

deliver

Exodus 22:26,27 Job 24:7,8 29:11-13 31:16-20 Ezekiel 18:7,12,16 33:15 Amos 2:8 2 Timothy 1:16-18

the sun

15 2 Corinthians 9:13,14 Ephesians 4:26

in his own raiment

The raiment here referred to was most likely the same as the hyke of the Arabs, a long kind of blanket, resembling a Highland plaid, generally about six yards in length, and five or six feet broad; in which they often carry their provisions, as well as wrap themselves in, in the day, and sleep in at night, it being their only substitute for a bed. How necessary, then, it was to restore the hyke to a poor man before the going down of the sun, that he might have something to repose on, will sufficiently appear from these considerations.

shall be

6:25 15:9,10 Genesis 15:6 Psalms 106:30,31 112:9 Isaiah 58:8 Daniel 4:27 James 1:27 2:13-23

Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:

Leviticus 25:40-43 Job 24:10,11 31:13-15 Proverbs 14:31 22:16 Ezekiel 22:7 Amos 2:7 4:1 8:4 Malachi 3:5 Luke 10:7

At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.

At his

Leviticus 19:13 Proverbs 3:27,28 Jeremiah 22:13 Matthew 20:8 Mark 10:19 James 5:4

setteth his heart upon it

Heb. lifteth his soul unto it.

Psalms 24:4 25:1 86:4

lest he

15:9 Exodus 22:23,24 Job 31:38 34:28 35:9 Proverbs 22:22,23 23:10,11 Isaiah 5:7 James 5:4

The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

2 Kings 14:5,6 2 Chronicles 25:4 Jeremiah 31:29,30 Ezekiel 18:20

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

pervert

16:19 27:19 Exodus 22:21,22 23:2,6,9 1 Samuel 12:3,4 Job 22:8,9 Job 29:11-17 Psalms 82:1-5 94:3-6,20,21 Proverbs 22:22,23 31:5 Ecclesiastes 5:8 Isaiah 1:23 3:15 33:15 Jeremiah 5:28 22:3 Ezekiel 22:7,29 Amos 5:7-12 Micah 2:1,2 7:3 Zechariah 7:10 Malachi 3:5 Luke 3:14 James 2:6

nor take

Exodus 22:26,27

But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

22 5:15 15:15 16:12

When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

When thou

Leviticus 19:9,10 23:22 Ruth 2:16 Psalms 41:1

it shall be

20,21 14:29 26:13

may bless

15:10 Job 31:16-22 42:12 Psalms 41:1-3 112:9 Proverbs 11:24,25 14:21 Proverbs 19:17 Isaiah 32:8 58:7-11 Luke 6:35,38 14:13,14 2 Corinthians 9:6-8 1 John 3:17-19

When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

go over the boughs again

Heb. bough it after thee.

When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

gatherest

19 Leviticus 19:9,10

afterward

Heb. after thee.

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

18 5:14,15 7:8 Isaiah 51:1 2 Corinthians 8:8,9 Ephesians 5:1,2 1 John 4:10,11