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Themes in Deuteronomy 25

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Themes in Deuteronomy 25

Deuteronomy 25:1 (show verse)

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall 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)

and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.

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)

Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

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)

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the grain .

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

If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto 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)

And it shall be, that the first-born that she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother that is dead, that his name be not blotted out of 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)

And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother unto 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 call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand, and say, I like not to take her;

Deuteronomy 25:9 (show verse)

then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto the man that doth 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)

And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.

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)

When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets;

Pity » Not to be shown to offenders

Deuteronomy 25:12 (show verse)

then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall have no pity.

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

Deuteronomy 25:13 (show verse)

Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great 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)

Thou shalt not have in thy house diverse measures, a great 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)

A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

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 all that do such things, even all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto Jehovah thy 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 unto thee by the way as ye came forth out of 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 thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not 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 be, when Jehovah thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget.

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