Leviticus 24:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.

Leviticus 24:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 24:21
And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.
Exodus 21:34-36
The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his. …

Topics

Evil for Evil Eye for Eye Lex Talionis Punishment Retaliation Revenge Vengeance

Commentary

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

(vv. 10-23)

Evil manners, we say, beget good laws. We have here an account of the evil manners of a certain nameless mongrel Israelite, and the good laws occasioned thereby. I. The offender was the son of an Egyptian father and an Israelitish mother (Lev. 24:10); his mother was of the tribe of Dan, Lev. 24:11. Neither he nor his father is named, but his mother only, who was an Israelite. This notice is taken…

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

(vv. 18)

17-22. he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death--These verses contain a repetition of some other laws, relating to offenses of a social nature, the penalties for which were to be inflicted, not by the hand of private parties, but through the medium of the judges before whom the cause was brought.