# Deuteronomy 25 📖: Justice and Remembering Amalek [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[-Deuteronomy Overview]] | [[Deuteronomy 24]] | [[Deuteronomy 26]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] > [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]] > [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] > [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]] > [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] > [[#💬 Discussion Questions]] > [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] > [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[#📂 Internal Notes]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) [[#Verse 01.]] If controversy arises between people, they should go to court for judgment. When the judges hear the case, they shall exonerate the innocent but condemn the guilty.  [[#Verse 02.]] Then, if the guilty person is sentenced to a beating, the judge shall force him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of blows his wicked behavior deserves.  [[#Verse 03.]] The judge may sentence him to forty blows, but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite with contempt. [[#Verse 04.]] You must not muzzle your ox when it is treading grain. ### Respect for the Sanctity of Others [[#Verse 05.]] If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man’s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband’s brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.  [[#Verse 06.]] Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.  [[#Verse 07.]] But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, then she must go to the elders at the town gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel; he is unwilling to perform the duty of a brother-in-law to me!”  [[#Verse 08.]] Then the elders of his city must summon him and speak to him. If he persists, saying, “I don’t want to marry her,”  [[#Verse 09.]] then his sister-in-law must approach him in view of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. She will then respond, “Thus may it be done to any man who does not maintain his brother’s family line!”  [[#Verse 10.]] His family name will be referred to in Israel as “the family of the one whose sandal was removed.” [[#Verse 11.]] If two men get into a hand-to-hand fight, and the wife of one of them gets involved to help her husband against his attacker, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his private parts,  [[#Verse 12.]] then you must cut off her hand—do not pity her. [[#Verse 13.]] You must not have in your bag different stone weights, a heavy and a light one.  [[#Verse 14.]] You must not have in your house different measuring containers, a large and a small one.  [[#Verse 15.]] You must have an accurate and correct stone weight and an accurate and correct measuring container, so that your life may be extended in the land the Lord your God is about to give you.  [[#Verse 16.]] For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent to the Lord your God. ### Treatment of the Amalekites [[#Verse 17.]] Remember what the Amalekites did to you on your way from Egypt,  [[#Verse 18.]] how they met you along the way and cut off all your stragglers in the rear of the march when you were exhausted and tired; they were unafraid of God.  [[#Verse 19.]] So when the Lord your God gives you relief from all the enemies who surround you in the land he is giving you as an inheritance, you must wipe out the memory of the Amalekites from under heaven—do not forget! ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights 1. Paul received forty lashes minus one five times (2 Corinthians 11:24). The later practice of stopping at thirty-nine guarded against going over the limit. 2. Paul quotes the ox law twice, in 1 Corinthians 9:9 and 1 Timothy 5:18. 3. This custom is called levirate marriage, from the Latin *levir*, meaning "husband's brother." 4. A brother who refused had his sandal pulled off and his face spit on before the elders (25:9). 5. His family was then known as the house of the one whose sandal was removed (25:10). 6. Ruth 4:7-8 describes the sandal used in a related legal custom when Boaz redeemed Elimelech's land. 7. The Sadducees used this law to question Jesus about the resurrection (Matthew 22:23-28). 8. The story of Judah and Tamar shows the custom long before Moses (Genesis 38:8). 9. Amalek attacked the weak and weary stragglers at the rear of Israel's line (25:17-18; Exodus 17:8-16). 10. King Saul later failed to carry out God's judgment on Amalek (1 Samuel 15). ## 🧠 Chapter Summary > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter Christ is our Kinsman-Redeemer. The brother of a man who died was to raise up a name for him (25:5-6), and Jesus shared our flesh and blood to redeem us and give us an everlasting name (Hebrews 2:14-17). ## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 💬 Discussion Questions 1. Punishment was limited to forty lashes so the offender would not be degraded (25:3). How does God guard human dignity even in discipline? 2. Paul applies "do not muzzle an ox" to supporting those who teach God's Word (25:4; 1 Corinthians 9:9-11). How can you care for those who serve you spiritually? 3. The Lord detests dishonest weights and measures (25:13-16). Where can small dishonesty creep into everyday life? ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 verse 3: No more than forty lashes, so that a fellow Israelite is not humiliated. - 📖 verse 4: Do not muzzle an ox while it is threshing grain. - 📖 verses 15-16: Use honest weights and measures, because the Lord detests dishonesty. ## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference - 🔗 [[1 Corinthians 09#Verse 09.|1 Corinthians 9:9-11]] - Do not muzzle the ox. - 🔗 [[2 Corinthians 11#Verse 24.|2 Corinthians 11:24]] - Paul receives forty lashes minus one. - 🔗 [[Ruth 04#Verse 05.|Ruth 4:5-10]] - Boaz redeems and raises up the name of the dead. - 🔗 [[Matthew 22#Verse 23.|Matthew 22:23-30]] - Jesus answers the Sadducees. - 🔗 [[Proverbs 11#Verse 01.|Proverbs 11:1]] - The Lord abhors dishonest scales. ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 📂 Internal Notes