16And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.
I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. …
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-31)We have here the law concerning the solemn trial of a wife whose husband was jealous of her. Observe, I. What was the case supposed: That a man had some reason to suspect his wife to have committed adultery, Luke 5:12-14. Here, 1. The sin of adultery is justly represented as an exceedingly sinful sin; it is going aside from God and virtue, and the good way, Prov. 2:17. It is committing a trespass…
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