Deuteronomy 25:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.

Deuteronomy 25:10 —

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-12)

Here is, I. The law settled concerning the marrying of the brother’s widow. It appears from the story of Judah’s family that this had been an ancient usage (Gen. 38:8), for the keeping up of distinct families. The case put is a case that often happens, of a man’s dying without issue, it may be in the prime of his time, soon after his marriage, and while his brethren were yet so young as to be unma…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

5-10. the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother ... shall take her to him to wife--This usage existed before the age of Moses (Ge 38:8). But the Mosaic law rendered the custom obligatory (Mt 22:25) on younger brothers, or the nearest kinsman, to marry the widow (Ru 4:4), by associating the natural desire of perpetuating a brother’s name with the preservati…