Analytic Septuagint with Strong’s numbers and morphology (v. κυριος)

1καιG2532{CONJ} ελαλησενG2980{V-AAI-3S} κυριοςG2962{N-NSM} προςG4314{PREP} μωυσην{N-ASM} λεγωνG3004{V-PAPNS} 2καιG2532{ADV} τοιςG3588{T-DPM} υιοιςG5207{N-DPM} ισραηλG2474{N-PRI} λαλησειςG2980{V-FAI-2S} εανG1437{CONJ} τιςG5100{I-NSM} αποG575{PREP} τωνG3588{T-GPM} υιωνG5207{N-GPM} ισραηλG2474{N-PRI} ηG2228{CONJ} αποG575{PREP} τωνG3588{T-GPM} προσγεγενημενων{V-RMPGP} προσηλυτωνG4339{N-GPM} ενG1722{PREP} ισραηλG2474{N-PRI} οςG3739{R-NSM} ανG302{PRT} δωG1325{V-AAS-3S} τουG3588{T-GSN} σπερματοςG4690{N-GSN} αυτουG846{D-GSM} αρχοντιG758{N-DSM} θανατωG2288{N-DSM} θανατουσθωG2289{V-PMD-3S} τοG3588{T-NSN} εθνοςG1484{N-NSN} τοG3588{T-NSN} επιG1909{PREP} τηςG3588{T-GSF} γηςG1065{N-GSF} λιθοβολησουσινG3036{V-FAI-3P} αυτονG846{D-ASM} ενG1722{PREP} λιθοιςG3037{N-DPM} 3καιG2532{CONJ} εγωG1473{P-NS} επιστησω{V-FAI-1S} τοG3588{T-ASN} προσωπονG4383{N-ASN} μουG1473{P-GS} επιG1909{PREP} τονG3588{T-ASM} ανθρωπονG444{N-ASM} εκεινονG1565{D-ASM} καιG2532{CONJ} απολω{V-FAI-1S} αυτονG846{D-ASM} εκG1537{PREP} τουG3588{T-GSM} λαουG2992{N-GSM} αυτουG846{D-GSM} οτιG3754{CONJ} τουG3588{T-GSN} σπερματοςG4690{N-GSN} αυτουG846{D-GSM} εδωκενG1325{V-AAI-3S} αρχοντιG758{N-DSM} ιναG2443{CONJ} μιανηG3392{V-AAS-3S} ταG3588{T-APN} αγιαG40{A-APN} μουG1473{P-GS} καιG2532{CONJ} βεβηλωσηG953{V-AAS-3S} τοG3588{T-ASN} ονομαG3686{N-ASN} τωνG3588{T-GPM} ηγιασμενωνG37{V-RPPGP} μοιG1473{P-DS} 4εανG1437{CONJ} δεG1161{PRT} υπεροψει{N-DSF} υπεριδωσιν{V-AAS-3P} οιG3588{T-NPM} αυτοχθονες{N-NPM} τηςG3588{T-GSF} γηςG1065{N-GSF} τοιςG3588{T-DPM} οφθαλμοιςG3788{N-DPM} αυτωνG846{D-GPM} αποG575{PREP} τουG3588{T-GSM} ανθρωπουG444{N-GSM} εκεινουG1565{D-GSM} ενG1722{PREP} τωG3588{T-DSN} δουναιG1325{V-AAN} αυτονG846{D-ASM} τουG3588{T-GSN} σπερματοςG4690{N-GSN} αυτουG846{D-GSM} αρχοντιG758{N-DSM} τουG3588{T-GSN} μηG3165{ADV} αποκτειναιG615{V-AAN} αυτονG846{D-ASM} 5καιG2532{CONJ} επιστησω{V-FAI-1S} τοG3588{T-ASN} προσωπονG4383{N-ASN} μουG1473{P-GS} επιG1909{PREP} τονG3588{T-ASM} ανθρωπονG444{N-ASM} εκεινονG1565{D-ASM} καιG2532{CONJ} τηνG3588{T-ASF} συγγενειανG4772{N-ASF} αυτουG846{D-GSM} καιG2532{CONJ} απολω{V-FAI-1S} αυτονG846{D-ASM} καιG2532{CONJ} πανταςG3956{A-APM} τουςG3588{T-APM} ομονοουντας{V-PAPAP} αυτωG846{D-DSM} ωστεG5620{CONJ} εκπορνευεινG1608{V-PAN} αυτονG846{D-ASM} ειςG1519{PREP} τουςG3588{T-APM} αρχονταςG758{N-APM} εκG1537{PREP} τουG3588{T-GSM} λαουG2992{N-GSM} αυτωνG846{D-GPM} 6καιG2532{CONJ} ψυχηG5590{N-NSF} ηG3739{R-NSF} εανG1437{CONJ} επακολουθηση{V-AAS-3S} εγγαστριμυθοις{A-DPM} ηG2228{CONJ} επαοιδοις{N-DPM} ωστεG5620{CONJ} εκπορνευσαιG1608{V-AAN} οπισωG3694{PREP} αυτωνG846{D-GPM} επιστησω{V-FAI-1S} τοG3588{T-ASN} προσωπονG4383{N-ASN} μουG1473{P-GS} επιG1909{PREP} τηνG3588{T-ASF} ψυχηνG5590{N-ASF} εκεινηνG1565{D-ASF} καιG2532{CONJ} απολω{V-FAI-1S} αυτηνG846{D-ASF} εκG1537{PREP} τουG3588{T-GSM} λαουG2992{N-GSM} αυτηςG846{D-GSF} 7καιG2532{CONJ} εσεσθεG1510{V-FMI-2P} αγιοιG40{A-NPM} οτιG3754{CONJ} αγιοςG40{A-NSM} εγωG1473{P-NS} κυριοςG2962{N-NSM} οG3588{T-NSM} θεοςG2316{N-NSM} υμωνG4771{P-GP} 8καιG2532{CONJ} φυλαξεσθεG5442{V-FMI-2P} ταG3588{T-APN} προσταγματα{N-APN} μουG1473{P-GS} καιG2532{CONJ} ποιησετεG4160{V-FAI-2P} αυταG846{D-APN} εγωG1473{P-NS} κυριοςG2962{N-NSM} οG3588{T-NSM} αγιαζωνG37{V-PAPNS} υμαςG4771{P-AP} 9ανθρωποςG444{N-NSM} ανθρωποςG444{N-NSM} οςG3739{R-NSM} ανG302{PRT} κακωςG2556{ADV} ειπη{V-AAS-3S} τονG3588{T-ASM} πατεραG3962{N-ASM} αυτουG846{D-GSM} ηG2228{CONJ} τηνG3588{T-ASF} μητεραG3384{N-ASF} αυτουG846{D-GSM} θανατωG2288{N-DSM} θανατουσθωG2289{V-PMD-3S} πατεραG3962{N-ASM} αυτουG846{D-GSM} ηG2228{CONJ} μητεραG3384{N-ASF} αυτουG846{D-GSM} κακωςG2556{ADV} ειπεν{V-AAI-3S} ενοχοςG1777{A-NSM} εσταιG1510{V-FMI-3S} 10ανθρωποςG444{N-NSM} οςG3739{R-NSM} ανG302{PRT} μοιχευσηταιG3431{V-AMS-3S} γυναικαG1135{N-ASF} ανδροςG435{N-GSM} ηG2228{CONJ} οςG3739{R-NSM} ανG302{PRT} μοιχευσηταιG3431{V-AMS-3S} γυναικαG1135{N-ASF} τουG3588{T-GSM} πλησιονG4139{ADV} θανατωG2288{N-DSM} θανατουσθωσανG2289{V-PMD-3P} οG3588{T-NSM} μοιχευωνG3431{V-PAPNS} καιG2532{CONJ} ηG3588{T-NSF} μοιχευομενηG3431{V-PPPNS} 11εανG1437{CONJ} τιςG5100{I-NSM} κοιμηθηG2837{V-APS-3S} μεταG3326{PREP} γυναικοςG1135{N-GSF} τουG3588{T-GSM} πατροςG3962{N-GSM} αυτουG846{D-GSM} ασχημοσυνηνG808{N-ASF} τουG3588{T-GSM} πατροςG3962{N-GSM} αυτουG846{D-GSM} απεκαλυψενG601{V-AAI-3S} θανατωG2288{N-DSM} θανατουσθωσανG2289{V-PMD-3P} αμφοτεροι{A-NPM} ενοχοιG1777{A-NPM} εισινG1510{V-PAI-3P} 12καιG2532{CONJ} εανG1437{CONJ} τιςG5100{I-NSM} κοιμηθηG2837{V-APS-3S} μεταG3326{PREP} νυμφηςG3565{N-GSF} αυτουG846{D-GSM} θανατωG2288{N-DSM} θανατουσθωσανG2289{V-PMD-3P} αμφοτεροι{A-NPM} ησεβηκασινG764{V-RAI-3P} γαρG1063{PRT} ενοχοιG1777{A-NPM} εισινG1510{V-PAI-3P} 13καιG2532{CONJ} οςG3739{R-NSM} ανG302{PRT} κοιμηθηG2837{V-APS-3S} μεταG3326{PREP} αρσενος{A-GSN} κοιτηνG2845{N-ASF} γυναικοςG1135{N-GSF} βδελυγμαG946{N-ASN} εποιησανG4160{V-AAI-3P} αμφοτεροι{A-NPM} θανατουσθωσανG2289{V-PMD-3P} ενοχοιG1777{A-NPM} εισινG1510{V-PAI-3P} 14οςG3739{R-NSM} εανG1437{CONJ} λαβηG2983{V-AAS-3S} γυναικαG1135{N-ASF} καιG2532{CONJ} τηνG3588{T-ASF} μητεραG3384{N-ASF} αυτηςG846{D-GSF} ανομημα{N-NSN} εστινG1510{V-PAI-3S} ενG1722{PREP} πυριG4442{N-DSN} κατακαυσουσινG2618{V-FAI-3P} αυτονG846{D-ASM} καιG2532{CONJ} αυταςG846{D-APF} καιG2532{CONJ} ουκG3364{ADV} εσταιG1510{V-FMI-3S} ανομιαG458{N-NSF} ενG1722{PREP} υμινG4771{P-DP} 15καιG2532{CONJ} οςG3739{R-NSM} ανG302{PRT} δωG1325{V-AAS-3S} κοιτασιαν{N-ASF} αυτουG846{D-GSM} ενG1722{PREP} τετραποδιG5074{A-DSN} θανατωG2288{N-DSM} θανατουσθωG2289{V-PMD-3S} καιG2532{CONJ} τοG3588{T-ASN} τετραπουνG5074{A-ASN} αποκτενειτεG615{V-FAI-2P} 16καιG2532{CONJ} γυνηG1135{N-NSF} ητιςG3748{RI-NSF} προσελευσεταιG4334{V-FMI-3S} προςG4314{PREP} πανG3956{A-ASN} κτηνοςG2934{N-ASN} βιβασθηναι{V-APN} αυτηνG846{D-ASF} υπG5259{PREP} αυτουG846{D-GSN} αποκτενειτεG615{V-FAI-2P} τηνG3588{T-ASF} γυναικαG1135{N-ASF} καιG2532{CONJ} τοG3588{T-ASN} κτηνοςG2934{N-ASN} θανατωG2288{N-DSM} θανατουσθωσανG2289{V-PMD-3P} ενοχοιG1777{A-NPM} εισινG1510{V-PAI-3P} 17οςG3739{R-NSM} εανG1437{CONJ} λαβηG2983{V-AAS-3S} τηνG3588{T-ASF} αδελφηνG79{N-ASF} αυτουG846{D-GSM} εκG1537{PREP} πατροςG3962{N-GSM} αυτουG846{D-GSM} ηG2228{CONJ} εκG1537{PREP} μητροςG3384{N-GSF} αυτουG846{D-GSM} καιG2532{CONJ} ιδηG3708{V-AAS-3S} τηνG3588{T-ASF} ασχημοσυνηνG808{N-ASF} αυτηςG846{D-GSF} καιG2532{CONJ} αυτηG3778{D-NSF} ιδηG3708{V-AAS-3S} τηνG3588{T-ASF} ασχημοσυνηνG808{N-ASF} αυτουG846{D-GSM} ονειδοςG3681{N-NSN} εστινG1510{V-PAI-3S} εξολεθρευθησονται{V-FPI-3P} ενωπιονG1799{PREP} υιωνG5207{N-GPM} γενουςG1085{N-GSN} αυτωνG846{D-GPM} ασχημοσυνηνG808{N-ASF} αδελφηςG79{N-GSF} αυτουG846{D-GSM} απεκαλυψενG601{V-AAI-3S} αμαρτιανG266{N-ASF} κομιουνταιG2865{V-FMI-3P} 18καιG2532{CONJ} ανηρG435{N-NSM} οςG3739{R-NSM} ανG302{PRT} κοιμηθηG2837{V-APS-3S} μεταG3326{PREP} γυναικοςG1135{N-GSF} αποκαθημενης{V-PMPGS} καιG2532{CONJ} αποκαλυψηG601{V-AAS-3S} τηνG3588{T-ASF} ασχημοσυνηνG808{N-ASF} αυτηςG846{D-GSF} τηνG3588{T-ASF} πηγηνG4077{N-ASF} αυτηςG846{D-GSF} απεκαλυψενG601{V-AAI-3S} καιG2532{CONJ} αυτηG3778{D-NSF} απεκαλυψενG601{V-AAI-3S} τηνG3588{T-ASF} ρυσιν{N-ASF} τουG3588{T-GSN} αιματοςG129{N-GSN} αυτηςG846{D-GSF} εξολεθρευθησονται{V-FPI-3P} αμφοτεροι{A-NPM} εκG1537{PREP} τουG3588{T-GSN} γενουςG1085{N-GSN} αυτωνG846{D-GPM} 19καιG2532{CONJ} ασχημοσυνηνG808{N-ASF} αδελφηςG79{N-GSF} πατροςG3962{N-GSM} σουG4771{P-GS} καιG2532{CONJ} αδελφηςG79{N-GSF} μητροςG3384{N-GSF} σουG4771{P-GS} ουκG3364{ADV} αποκαλυψειςG601{V-FAI-2S} τηνG3588{T-ASF} γαρG1063{PRT} οικειοτητα{N-ASF} απεκαλυψενG601{V-AAI-3S} αμαρτιανG266{N-ASF} αποισονταιG667{V-FMI-3P} 20οςG3739{R-NSM} ανG302{PRT} κοιμηθηG2837{V-APS-3S} μεταG3326{PREP} τηςG3588{T-GSF} συγγενουςG4773{A-GSF} αυτουG846{D-GSM} ασχημοσυνηνG808{N-ASF} τηςG3588{T-GSF} συγγενειαςG4772{N-GSF} αυτουG846{D-GSM} απεκαλυψενG601{V-AAI-3S} ατεκνοιG815{A-NPM} αποθανουνταιG599{V-FMI-3P} 21οςG3739{R-NSM} ανG302{PRT} λαβηG2983{V-AAS-3S} τηνG3588{T-ASF} γυναικαG1135{N-ASF} τουG3588{T-GSM} αδελφουG80{N-GSM} αυτουG846{D-GSM} ακαθαρσιαG167{N-NSF} εστινG1510{V-PAI-3S} ασχημοσυνηνG808{N-ASF} τουG3588{T-GSM} αδελφουG80{N-GSM} αυτουG846{D-GSM} απεκαλυψενG601{V-AAI-3S} ατεκνοιG815{A-NPM} αποθανουνταιG599{V-FMI-3P} 22καιG2532{CONJ} φυλαξασθεG5442{V-AMD-2P} πανταG3956{A-APN} ταG3588{T-APN} προσταγματα{N-APN} μουG1473{P-GS} καιG2532{CONJ} ταG3588{T-APN} κριματαG2917{N-APN} μουG1473{P-GS} καιG2532{CONJ} ποιησετεG4160{V-FAI-2P} αυταG846{D-APN} καιG2532{CONJ} ουG3364{ADV} μηG3165{ADV} προσοχθισηG4360{V-AAS-3S} υμινG4771{P-DP} ηG3588{T-NSF} γηG1065{N-NSF} ειςG1519{PREP} ηνG3739{R-ASF} εγωG1473{P-NS} εισαγωG1521{V-PAI-1S} υμαςG4771{P-AP} εκειG1563{ADV} κατοικειν{V-PAN} επG1909{PREP} αυτηςG846{D-GSF} 23καιG2532{CONJ} ουχιG3364{ADV} πορευεσθεG4198{V-PMD-2P} τοιςG3588{T-DPM} νομιμοιςG3545{A-DPM} τωνG3588{T-GPN} εθνωνG1484{N-GPN} ουςG3739{R-APM} εξαποστελλωG1821{V-PAI-1S} αφG575{PREP} υμωνG4771{P-GP} οτιG3754{CONJ} ταυταG3778{D-APN} πανταG3956{A-APN} εποιησανG4160{V-AAI-3P} καιG2532{CONJ} εβδελυξαμηνG948{V-AMI-1S} αυτουςG846{D-APM} 24καιG2532{CONJ} ειπα{V-AAI-1S} υμινG4771{P-DP} υμειςG4771{P-NP} κληρονομησατεG2816{V-AAD-2P} τηνG3588{T-ASF} γηνG1065{N-ASF} αυτωνG846{D-GPM} καιG2532{CONJ} εγωG1473{P-NS} δωσωG1325{V-FAI-1S} υμινG4771{P-DP} αυτηνG846{D-ASF} ενG1722{PREP} κτησει{N-DSF} γηνG1065{N-ASF} ρεουσαν{V-PAPAS} γαλαG1051{N-ASN} καιG2532{CONJ} μελιG3192{N-ASN} εγωG1473{P-NS} κυριοςG2962{N-NSM} οG3588{T-NSM} θεοςG2316{N-NSM} υμωνG4771{P-GP} οςG3739{R-NSM} διωρισα{V-AAI-1S} υμαςG4771{P-AP} αποG575{PREP} παντωνG3956{A-GPN} τωνG3588{T-GPN} εθνωνG1484{N-GPN} 25καιG2532{CONJ} αφοριειτε{V-FAI-2P} αυτουςG846{D-APM} αναG303{PREP} μεσονG3319{A-ASN} τωνG3588{T-GPN} κτηνωνG2934{N-GPN} τωνG3588{T-GPN} καθαρωνG2513{A-GPN} καιG2532{CONJ} αναG303{PREP} μεσονG3319{A-ASN} τωνG3588{T-GPN} κτηνωνG2934{N-GPN} τωνG3588{T-GPN} ακαθαρτωνG169{A-GPN} καιG2532{CONJ} αναG303{PREP} μεσονG3319{A-ASN} τωνG3588{T-GPN} πετεινωνG4071{N-GPN} τωνG3588{T-GPN} καθαρωνG2513{A-GPN} καιG2532{CONJ} τωνG3588{T-GPN} ακαθαρτωνG169{A-GPN} καιG2532{CONJ} ουG3364{ADV} βδελυξετεG948{V-FAI-2P} ταςG3588{T-APF} ψυχαςG5590{N-APF} υμωνG4771{P-GP} ενG1722{PREP} τοιςG3588{T-DPN} κτηνεσινG2934{N-DPN} καιG2532{CONJ} ενG1722{PREP} τοιςG3588{T-DPN} πετεινοιςG4071{N-DPN} καιG2532{CONJ} ενG1722{PREP} πασινG3956{A-DPN} τοιςG3588{T-DPN} ερπετοιςG2062{N-DPN} τηςG3588{T-GSF} γηςG1065{N-GSF} αG3739{R-APN} εγωG1473{P-NS} αφωρισα{V-AAI-1S} υμινG4771{P-DP} ενG1722{PREP} ακαθαρσιαG167{N-DSF} 26καιG2532{CONJ} εσεσθεG1510{V-FMI-2P} μοιG1473{P-DS} αγιοιG40{A-NPM} οτιG3754{CONJ} εγωG1473{P-NS} αγιοςG40{A-NSM} κυριοςG2962{N-NSM} οG3588{T-NSM} θεοςG2316{N-NSM} υμωνG4771{P-GP} οG3588{T-NSM} αφορισας{V-AAPNS} υμαςG4771{P-AP} αποG575{PREP} παντωνG3956{A-GPN} τωνG3588{T-GPN} εθνωνG1484{N-GPN} ειναιG1510{V-PAN} εμοιG1473{P-DS} 27καιG2532{CONJ} ανηρG435{N-NSM} ηG2228{CONJ} γυνηG1135{N-NSF} οςG3739{R-NSM} ανG302{PRT} γενηταιG1096{V-AMS-3S} αυτωνG846{D-GPM} εγγαστριμυθος{A-NSM} ηG2228{CONJ} επαοιδος{N-NSM} θανατωG2288{N-DSM} θανατουσθωσανG2289{V-PMD-3P} αμφοτεροι{A-NPM} λιθοιςG3037{N-DPM} λιθοβολησατεG3036{V-AAD-2P} αυτουςG846{D-APM} ενοχοιG1777{A-NPM} εισινG1510{V-PAI-3P}


Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary
 1   Moses is here directed to say that again to the children of Israel which he had in effect said before, Lev 20:2. We are sure it was no vain repetition, but very necessary, that they might give the more earnest heed to the things that were spoken, and might believe them to be of great consequence, being so often inculcated. God speaketh once, yea, twice, and what he orders to be said again we must be willing to hear again, because for us it is safe, Phili 3:1.
I. Three sins are in these verses threatened with death: -
1. Parents abusing their children, by sacrificing them to Moloch, Lev 20:2, Lev 20:3. There is the grossest absurdity that can be in all the rites of idolatry, and they are all a great reproach to men's reason; but none trampled upon all the honours of human nature as this did, the burning of children in the fire to the honour of a dunghill-god. It was a plain evidence that their gods were devils, who desired and delighted in the misery and ruin of mankind, and that the worshippers were worse than the beasts that perish, perfectly stripped, not only of reason, but of natural affection. Abraham's offering Isaac could not give countenance, much less could it give rise to this barbarous practice, since, though that was commanded, it was immediately countermanded. Yet such was the power of the god of this world over the children of disobedience that this monstrous piece of inhumanity was generally practised; and even the Israelites were in danger of being drawn into it, which made it necessary that this severe law should be made against it. It was not enough to tell them they might spare their children (the fruit of their body should never be accepted for the sin of their soul), but they must be told, (1.) That the criminal himself should be put to death as a murderer: The people of the land shall stone him with stones (Lev 20:2), which was looked upon as the worst of capital punishments among the Jews. If the children were sacrificed to the malice of the devil, the parents must be sacrificed to the justice of God. And, if either the fact could not be proved or the magistrates did not do their duty, God would take the work into his own hands: I will cut him off, Lev 20:3. Note, Those that escape punishment from men, yet shall not escape the righteous judgments of God; so wretchedly do those deceive themselves that promise themselves impunity in sin. How can those escape against whom God sets his face, that is, whom he frowns upon, meets as an enemy, and fights against? The heinousness of the crime is here set forth to justify the doom: it defiles the sanctuary, and profanes the holy name of God, for the honour of both which he is jealous. Observe, The malignity of the sin is laid upon that in it which was peculiar to Israel. When the Gentiles sacrificed their children they were guilty of murder and idolatry; but, if the Israelites did it, they incurred the additional guilt of defiling the sanctuary (which they attended upon even when they lay under this guilt, as if there might be an agreement between the temple of God and idols), and of profaning the holy name of God, by which they were called, as if he allowed his worshippers to do such things, Roma 2:23, Roma 2:24. (2.) That all his aiders and abetters should be cut off likewise by the righteous hand of God. If his neighbours concealed him, and would not come in as witnesses against him, - if the magistrates connived at him, and would not pass sentence upon him, rather pitying his folly than hating his impiety, - God himself would reckon with them, Lev 20:4, Lev 20:5. Misprision of idolatry is a crime cognizable in the court of heaven, and which shall not go unpunished: I will set my face against that man (that magistrate, Jer 5:1) and against his family. Note, [1.] The wickedness of the master of a family often brings ruin upon a family; and he that should be the house-keeper proves the house-breaker. [2.] If magistrates will not do justice upon offenders, God will do justice upon them, because there is danger that many will go a whoring after those who do but countenance sin by winking at it. And, if the sins of leaders be leading sins, it is fit that their punishments should be exemplary punishments.
2. Children's abusing their parents, by cursing them, Lev 20:9. If children should speak ill of their parents, or wish ill to them, or carry it scornfully or spitefully towards them, it was an iniquity to be punished by the judges, who were employed as conservators both of God's honour and of the public peace, which were both attacked by this unnatural insolence. See Prov 30:17, The eye that mocks at his father the ravens of the valley shall pick out, which intimates that such wicked children were in a fair way to be not only hanged, but hanged in chains. This law of Moses Christ quotes and confirms (Matt 15:4), for it is as direct a breach of the fifth commandment as wilful murder is of the sixth. The same law which requires parents to be tender of their children requires children to be respectful to their parents. He that despitefully uses his parents, the instruments of his being, flies in the face of God himself, the author of his being, who will not see the paternal dignity and authority insulted and trampled upon.
3. Persons abusing themselves by consulting such as have familiar spirits, Lev 20:6. By this, as much as any thing, a man diminishes, disparages, and deceives himself, and so abuses himself. What greater madness can there be than for a man to go to a liar for information, and to an enemy for advice? Those do so who turn after those that deal in the black art, and know the depths of Satan. This is spiritual adultery as much as idolatry is, giving that honour to the devil which is due to God only; and the jealous God will give a bill of divorce to those that thus go a whoring from him, and will cut them off, they having first cut themselves off from him.
II. In the midst of these particular laws comes in that general charge, Lev 20:7, Lev 20:8, where we have,
1. The duties required; and they are two: - (1.) That in our principles, affections, and aims, we be holy: Sanctify yourselves and be you holy. We must cleanse ourselves from all the pollutions of sin, consecrate ourselves to the service and honour of God, and conform ourselves in every thing to his holy will and image: this is to sanctify ourselves. (2.) That in all our actions, and in the whole course of our conversation, we be obedient to the laws of God: You shall keep my statutes. By this only can we make it to appear that we have sanctified ourselves and are holy, even by our keeping God's commandments; the tree is known by its fruit. Nor can we keep God's statutes, as we ought, unless we first sanctify ourselves, and be holy. Make the tree good, and the fruit will be good.
2. The reasons to enforce these duties. (1.) I am the Lord your God; therefore be holy, that you may resemble him whose people you are, and may be pleasing to him. Holiness becomes his house and household. (2.) I am the Lord who sanctifieth you. God sanctified them by peculiar privileges, laws, and favours, which distinguished them from all other nations, and dignified them as a people set apart for God. He gave them his word and ordinances to be means of their sanctification, and his good Spirit to instruct them; therefore they must be holy, else they received the grace of God herein in vain. Note, [1.] God's people are, and must be, persons of distinction. God has distinguished them by his holy covenant, and therefore they ought to distinguish themselves by their holy conversation. [2.] God's sanctifying us is a good reason why we should sanctify ourselves, that we may comply with the designs of his grace, and not walk contrary to them. If it be the Lord that sanctifies us, we may hope the work shall be done, though it be difficult: the manner of expression is like that, 2Cor 5:5, He that hath wrought us for the self-same thing is God. And his grace is so far from superseding our care and endeavour that it most strongly engages and encourages them. Work out your salvation, for it is God that worketh in you.

 10   Sins against the seventh commandment are here ordered to be severely punished. These are sins which, of all others, fools are most apt to make a mock at; but God would teach those the heinousness of the guilt by the extremity of the punishment that would not otherwise be taught it.
I. Lying with another man's wife was made a capital crime. The adulterer and the adulteress that had joined in the sin must fall alike under the sentence: they shall both be put to death, Lev 20:10. Long before this, even in Job's time, this was reputed a heinous crime and an iniquity to be punished by the judges, Job 31:11. It is a presumptuous contempt of an ordinance of God, and a violation of his covenant, Prov 2:17. It is an irreparable wrong to the injured husband, and debauches the mind and conscience of both the offenders as much as any thing. It is a sin which headstrong and unbridled lusts hurry men violently to, and therefore it needs such a powerful restraint as this. It is a sin which defiles a land and brings down God's judgments upon it, which disquiets families, and tends to the ruin of all virtue and religion, and therefore is fit to be animadverted upon by the conservators of the public peace: but see John 8:3-John 8:11.
II. Incestuous connections, whether by marriage or not. 1. Some of them were to be punished with death, as a man's lying with his father's wife, Lev 20:11. Reuben would have been put to death for his crime (Gen 35:22) if this law had been then made. It was the sin of the incestuous Corinthian, for which he was to be delivered unto Satan, 1Cor 5:1, 1Cor 5:5. A man's debauching his daughter-in-law, or his mother-in-law, or his sister, was likewise to be punished with death, Lev 20:12, Lev 20:14, Lev 20:17. 2. Others of them God would punish with the curse of barrenness, as a man's defiling his aunt, or his brother's wife (Lev 20:19-Lev 20:21): They shall die childless. Those that keep not within the divine rules of marriage forfeit the blessings of marriage: They shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase, Hos 4:10. Nay it is said, They shall bear their iniquity, that is, though they be not immediately cut off by the hand either of God or man for this sin, yet the guilt of it shall lie upon them, to be reckoned for another day, and not be purged with sacrifice or offering.
III. The unnatural lusts of sodomy and bestiality (sins not to be mentioned without horror) were to be punished with death, as they are at this day by our law, Lev 20:13, Lev 20:15, Lev 20:16. Even the beast that was thus abused was to be killed with the sinner, who was thereby openly put to the greater shame: and the villany was thus represented as in the highest degree execrable and abominable, all occasions of the remembrance or mention of it being to be taken away. Even the unseasonable use of the marriage, if presumptuous, and in contempt of the law, would expose the offenders to the just judgment of God: they shall be cut off, Lev 20:18. For this is the will of God, that every man should possess his vessel (and the wife is called the weaker vessel) in sanctification and honour, as becomes saints.

 22   The last verse is a particular law, which comes in after the general conclusion, as if omitted in its proper place: it is for the putting of those to death that dealt with familiar spirits, Lev 20:27. It would be an affront to God and to his lively oracles, a scandal to the country, and a temptation to ignorant bad people, to consult them, if such were known and suffered to live among them. Those that are in league with the devil have in effect made a covenant with death and an agreement with hell, and so shall their doom be.
The rest of these verses repeat and inculcate what had been said before; for to that unthinking forgetful people it was requisite that there should be line upon line, and that general rules, with their reasons, should be frequently insisted on, for the enforcement of particular laws, and making them more effectual. Three things we are here reminded of:-
I. Their dignity. 1. They had the Lord for their God, Lev 20:24. They were his, his care, his choice, his treasure, his jewels, his kingdom of priests (Lev 20:26): That you should be mine. Happy the people, and truly great, that are in such a case. 2. Their God was a holy God (Lev 20:26), infinitely advanced above all others. His holiness is his glory, and it was their honour to be related to him, while their neighbours were the infamous worshippers of impure and filthy spirits. 3. The great God had separated them from other people (Lev 20:24), and again, Lev 20:26. Other nations were the common; they were the enclosure, beautified and enriched with peculiar privileges, and designed for peculiar honours; let them therefore value themselves accordingly, preserve their honour, and not lay it in the dust, by walking in the way of the heathen.
II. Their duty; this is inferred from their dignity. God had done more for them than for others, and therefore expected more from them than from others. And what is it that the Lord their God requires, in consideration of the great things done and designed? 1. You shall keep all my statutes (Lev 20:22); and there was all the reason in the world that they should, for the statutes were their honour, and obedience to them would be their lasting comfort. 2. You shall not walk in the manners of nations, Lev 20:23. Being separated from them, they must not associate with them, nor learn their ways. The manners of the nations were bad enough in them, but would be much worse in God's people. 3. You shall put a difference between clean and unclean, Lev 20:25. This is holiness, to discern between things that differ, not to live at large, as if we might say and do any thing, but to speak and act with caution. 4. You shall not make your souls abominable, Lev 20:25. Our constant care must be to preserve the honour, by preserving the purity, of our own souls, and never to do any thing to make them abominable to God and to our own consciences.
III. Their danger. 1. They were going into an infected place (Lev 20:24): You shall inherit their land, a land flowing with milk and honey, which they would have the comfort of if they kept their integrity; but, withal, it was a land full of idols, idolatries, and superstitious usages, which they would be apt to fall in love with, having brought from Egypt with them a strange disposition to take that infection. 2. If they took the infection, it would be of pernicious consequence to them. The Canaanites were to be expelled for these very sins: They committed all these things, therefore I abhorred them, Lev 20:23. See what an evil thing sin is; it provokes God to abhor his own creatures, whereas otherwise he delights in the work of his hands. And, if the Israelites trod in the steps of their impiety, they must expect that the land would spue them out (Lev 20:22), as he had told them before, Lev 18:28. If God spared not the natural branches, but broke them off, neither would he spare those who were grafted in, if they degenerated. Thus the rejection of the Jews stands for a warning to all Christian churches to take heed lest the kingdom of God be taken from them. Those that sin like others must expect to smart like them; and their profession of relation to God will be no security to them.