Deuteronomy 21:22-23
worthy of death. Heb. of the judgment of death.The Hebrews understand this not of putting to death by hanging, but of hanging a man up after he was stoned to death; which was done more ignominiously of some heinous malefactors. We have the examples of Rechab and Baanah, who, for murdering Ish-bosheth, were slain by David's commandment, their hand and feet cut off, and then hanged up. 2Sa 4:12See alsoJos 8:29; 10:26So in Nu 25:4, we read, "And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads (chief men) of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel." Among the Romans, in after ages, they hanged, or rather fastened to the tree ALIVE; and such was the cruel death of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 19:6; 22:26; 1Sa 26:16; Mt 26:66; Ac 23:29; 25:11,25; 26:31thou hang.2Sa 21:6,9; Lu 23:33; Joh 19:31-38 he that is hanged is accursed of God. Heb. the curse of God.That is, it is the highest degree of reproach that can attach to a man, and proclaims him under the curse of God as much as any external punishment can. They that see him thus hanging between heaven and earth, will conclude him abandoned of both, and unworthy of either. Bp. Patrick observes, that this passage is applied to the death of Christ; not only because he bare our sins and was exposed to shame, as these malefactors were that were accursed of God, but because he was in the evening taken down from the cursed tree and buried, (and that by the particular care of the Jews, with an eye to this law, Joh 19:31,) in token, that now the guilt being removed, the law was satisfied, as it was when the malefactors had hanged till sun-set: it demanded no more. Then he, and those that are his, ceased to be a curse. And as the land of Israel was pure and clean when the body was buried, so the church is washed and cleansed by the complete satisfaction which Christ thus made. 7:26; Nu 25:4; Jos 7:12; 2Sa 21:6; Ro 9:3; Ga 3:13; 1Co 16:222Co 5:21thy land.Le 18:25; Nu 35:33,342 Samuel 18:9
his head.Riding furiously under the thick boughs of a great oak, which hung low and had never been cropped, either the twisted branches, or some low forked bough of the tree, caught him by the neck, or, as some think, by the loops into which his long hair had been pinned, which had been so much his pride, and was now justly made a halter for him. He may have hung so low from the bough, in consequence of the length of his hair, that he could not use his hands to help himself, or so entangled that his hands were bound, so that the more he struggled the more he was embarrassed. This set him up as a fair mark to the servants of David; and although David would have spared his rebellious son, if his orders had been executed, yet he could not turn the sword of Divine justice, in executing the just, righteous sentence of death on this traitorous son. 14; 14:26; 17:23; Mt 27:5taken up.De 21:23; 27:16,20; Job 18:8-10; 31:3; Ps 63:9,10; Pr 20:20; 30:17Jer 48:44; Mr 7:10; Ga 3:13Psalms 22:16-18
dogs.22:1; *title20; 59:6,14; Mt 7:6; Php 3:2; Re 22:15compassed.Lu 11:53,54assembly.86:14; Jer 12:6; Mt 26:57; Mr 15:16-20; Lu 22:63-71; 23:4,5,10,11Lu 23:23they pierced.The textual reading is {kaäri,} "as a lion my hands and feet;" but several MSS., read {kâroo,} and others {karoo} in the margin, which affords the reading adopted by our translators. So the LXX. [oryxan cheiras mou kai podas,] so also the Vulgate, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic; and as all the Evangelists so quote the passage, and apply it to the crucifixion of Christ, there seems scarcely the shadow of a doubt that this is the genuine reading; especially when it is considered, that the other contains no sense at all. The whole difference lies between [vâv] {wav} and [yôwd,] {yood,} which might easily be mistaken for each other. Zec 12:10; Mt 27:35; Mr 15:24; Lu 23:33; Joh 19:23,37; 20:25,27 I may.102:3-5; Job 33:21; Isa 52:14look.Mt 27:36,39-41; Mr 15:29-32; Lu 23:27,35 Mt 27:35; Mr 15:24; Lu 23:34; Joh 19:23,24John 3:14
as.Nu 21:7-9; 2Ki 18:4even.8:28; 12:32-34; Ps 22:16; Mt 26:54; Lu 18:31-33; 24:20,26,27,44-46Ac 2:23; 4:27,28John 8:28
When.3:14; 12:32-34; 19:18then.Mt 27:50-54; Ac 2:41; 4:4; Ro 1:4; 1Th 2:15,16and that.5:19,30; 6:38; 11:42; 12:49,50; Nu 16:28-30; Heb 2:2,3but.3:11John 19:17
he.Mt 10:38; 16:24; 27:31-33; Mr 8:34; 10:21; 15:21,22; Lu 9:23; 14:27Lu 23:26,33went.Le 16:21,22; 24:14; Nu 15:35,36; 1Ki 21:13; Lu 23:33; Ac 7:58Heb 13:11-13Golgotha.Golgotha, of which [kranion ] and {Calvaria} are merely translations, is supposed to have been a hill, or a rising on a greater hill, on the north-west of Jerusalem. Mt 27:33,34; Mr 15:21,22; Lu 23:33Galatians 3:13
redeemed.10; 4:5; Isa 55:5-7,10-12; Da 9:24,26; Zec 13:7; Mt 26:28Ro 3:24-26; 4:25; 8:3,4; 2Co 5:21; Eph 5:2; Tit 2:14Heb 7:26,27; 9:12,15,26,28; 10:4-10; 1Pe 1:18-21; 2:24; 3:181Jo 2:1,2; 4:10; Re 1:5; 5:9; 13:8being.2Ki 22:19; Jer 44:22; 49:13; Ro 9:3for.De 21:23; 2Sa 17:23; 18:10,14,15; 21:3,9; Es 7:10; 9:14; Mt 27:51Pe 2:24Cursed.Jos 10:26,27
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