6And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
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Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down. …
The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
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…
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