18For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
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Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: …
And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-26)We have here an account of the good Christ did in Samaria, when he passed through that country in his way to Galilee. The Samaritans, both in blood and religion , were mongrel Jews , the posterity of those colonies which the king of Assyria planted there after the captivity of the ten tribes, with whom the poor of the land that were left behind, and many other Jews afterwards, incorporated themsel…
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