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Themes in Deuteronomy 25

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Themes in Deuteronomy 25

Deuteronomy 25:1 (show verse)

“If there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges decide their case, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,

Court » Justice required of
Courts of justice » Both the accusers and accused required to appear before
Israel » Judges of » General references to
Judges of israel » General references to
Magistrates » Should » Judge righteously

Deuteronomy 25:2 (show verse)

then it shall be if the wicked man

deserves to be beaten, the judge shall then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of stripes according to his guilt.

Courts of justice » The judgment of » Immediately executed
Punishment » Minor offenses » Punishable by » Scourging
Punishments » Were inflicted » Immediately after sentence was passed
Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Scourging
Scourging » Prescribed for other offenses

Deuteronomy 25:3 (show verse)

He may beat him forty times but no more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not degraded in your eyes.

Beating » As a punishment
Forty » Stripes » Administered in punishing criminals
Punishment » Minor offenses » Punishable by » Scourging
Punishments » Beating
Punishments » Stripes » Mutilations » Forty
Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Scourging
Scourging » 40 stripes
The Nation » Punishment » Beating

Deuteronomy 25:4 (show verse)

“You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing.

Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Threshing
Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » Oxen
Animals » God's care of
Animals » Laws concerning
Beasts » Domestic » To be taken care of
Bullock (ox) » Laws concerning » Not to be muzzled, when treading grain
Bullock (ox) » Uses of » For treading out grain
Oxen » Laws respecting » Not to be muzzled when treading out the corn
Threshing » Cattle employed in, not to be muzzled
Threshing » By treading

“When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

Brother » Brother's widow. » Law concerning levirate marriage of
the First-born » Privileges of » In case of death the next brother to raise up seed to
Inheritance » Provisions for inheritance under levirate marriages
Marriage » Levirate (the brother required to marry a brother's widow)
Marriage » Of kinsman's widow
Marriage » The jews » Obliged to contract with a brother's wife who died without seed
Strangers » Marriage with, forbidden
Widow's » Laws respecting » When left childless, to be married by their husband's nearest of kin

Deuteronomy 25:6 (show verse)

It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall assume the name of his dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

Brother » Brother's widow. » Law concerning levirate marriage of
the First-born » Privileges of » In case of death the next brother to raise up seed to
Inheritance » Provisions for inheritance under levirate marriages
Marriage » Levirate (the brother required to marry a brother's widow)
Widow's » Laws respecting » When left childless, to be married by their husband's nearest of kin

Deuteronomy 25:7 (show verse)

But if the man does not desire to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’

Brother » Brother's widow. » Law concerning levirate marriage of
Court » Civil » The gates of cities
Courts » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Places of holding courts
Courts of justice » Judges of » Called elders
Inheritance » Provisions for inheritance under levirate marriages
Marriage » Levirate (the brother required to marry a brother's widow)

Deuteronomy 25:8 (show verse)

Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. And if he persists and says, ‘I do not desire to take her,’

Deuteronomy 25:9 (show verse)

then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall declare, ‘Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’

Brother » Brother's widow. » Law concerning levirate marriage of
Inheritance » Provisions for inheritance under levirate marriages
Marriage » Levirate (the brother required to marry a brother's widow)
Shoe » Loosened as a sign of refusal to observe the levirate marriage
Shoes » Customs connected with » A man who refused to marry a deceased brother's wife disgraced by pulling off his shoes
Spitting » In the face, as an indignity

Deuteronomy 25:10 (show verse)

In Israel his name shall be called, ‘The house of him whose sandal is removed.’

Brother » Brother's widow. » Law concerning levirate marriage of
Inheritance » Provisions for inheritance under levirate marriages
Marriage » Levirate (the brother required to marry a brother's widow)
Shoes » Customs connected with » A man who refused to marry a deceased brother's wife disgraced by pulling off his shoes

Deuteronomy 25:11 (show verse)

“If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals,

Pity » Not to be shown to offenders

Deuteronomy 25:12 (show verse)

then you shall cut off her hand;

you shall not show pity.

hands » Criminals often » Deprived of
Pity » Not to be shown to offenders

Deuteronomy 25:13 (show verse)

“You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.

Abomination » Things that are, to God » Unjust weights and measures
Business life » Dishonesty » Condemned
Business life » Fidelity » Giving of just weights
Dishonesty » Condemned
Measure » Must be just
Measures » Just weights
Social duties » Mercifulness » Of giving just weights
Vices » Dishonesty » Condemned
Virtues » Fidelity » Giving of just weights
Weights » Troy weights a gerah = 1/50 oz » 10 gerahs = 1 bekah = 1/5 oz
Weights » Must be just
Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have divers

Deuteronomy 25:14 (show verse)

You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.

Abomination » Things that are, to God » Unjust weights and measures
Measure » Must be just
Measures » The jews not to be unjust in
Weights » Must be just
Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have divers

Deuteronomy 25:15 (show verse)

You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

Abomination » Things that are, to God » Unjust weights and measures
Business life » Fidelity » Honesty, encouraged
Honesty » In business encouraged
Justice » To be done » In buying and selling
Measure » Must be just
Measures » The jews not to be unjust in
Social duties » Fidelity in business » Honesty in business, encouraged
Virtues » Fidelity » Honesty, encouraged
Weights » Must be just

Deuteronomy 25:16 (show verse)

For everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to the Lord your God.

Abomination » Things that are, to God » Unjust weights and measures
Error » Known to God » Hateful to God
Measure » Must be just
Sin » Harvest of » Hateful to God
Sin » God » Abominates
Transgression » Known to God » Hateful to God

Deuteronomy 25:17 (show verse)

“Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came out from Egypt,

Amalekites » Israel commanded to destroy
Israel » Defeats » Amalekites
Retaliation » Instances of » The israelites on the amalekites

Deuteronomy 25:18 (show verse)

how he met you along the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God.

Amalekites » Israel commanded to destroy
Israel » Defeats » Amalekites
Retaliation » Instances of » The israelites on the amalekites

Deuteronomy 25:19 (show verse)

Therefore it shall come about when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget.

Amalekites » Israel commanded to destroy
Retaliation » Instances of » The israelites on the amalekites