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Themes in Deuteronomy 25

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Themes in Deuteronomy 25

Deuteronomy 25:1 (show verse)

If there shall be a controversy between men and they drew near to judgment, and they judged them; and they justified the just and condemned the unjust.

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 was if the unjust be the son of smiting and the judge caused him to fall down and beat him before his face in proportion to his fault, by a 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 he shall beat him; He shall not add, lest he shall add to strike him above them with much beating, and thy brother was despised before thine 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)

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox treading.

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 shall dwell together and one of them died, and a son not to him, the wife of the dead shall not be without to a man a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and he took her to him for a wife, and he acted the 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)

And it is the first-born which she shall bear shall rise up upon the name of his brother the dead, and his name shall not be wiped 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)

And if the man shall not desire to take his brother's wife, and his brother's wife went up to the gate to the old men, and said, My husband's brother refused to raise up to his brother a name in Israel, and he would not act my husband's brother.

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)

And the old men of his city called to him and spake to him: and he stood and said, I desired not to take her.

Deuteronomy 25:9 (show verse)

And his brother's wife drew near to him before the eyes of the old men, and drew off his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and answered and said, Thus shall it be done to the man who will not build up the house of his brother.

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 was called in Israel, The house of him having his shoe drawn off.

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 shall strive together, a man and his brother, and the wife of the one come near to deliver her husband from him smiting him, and she stretched forth her hand and held fast by his secrets:

Pity » Not to be shown to offenders

Deuteronomy 25:12 (show verse)

And cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity.

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

Deuteronomy 25:13 (show verse)

There shall not be to thee in thy receptacle a stone and a stone, great and 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)

There shall not be to thee in thy house an ephah and an ephah, great and 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 stone complete and just shall be to thee; an ephah complete and just

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 an abomination are all doing these things, all doing evil.

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 thee in the way, in your coming 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)

That he met thee in the way, and he will smite the rear in thee all the enfeebled behind thee, and thou 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)

And it was in Jehovah thy God giving rest to thee from all thine enemies from round about in the land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee an inheritance to possess it, thou shalt wipe out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens; thou shalt not forget

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