Abortion

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningExodus 21:22Exodus 21:23
• As a judgmentHosea 9:14
• Of animals, caused by thunderPsalms 29:9

The passages, in Bible order (4)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 4 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 21:22

   If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows.

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   “If men strive,....

   “And hurt a woman with child - As a posterity among the Jews was among the peculiar promises of their covenant, and as every man had some reason to think that the Messiah should spring from his family, therefore any injury done to a woman with child, by which the fruit of her womb might be destroyed, was considered a very heavy offense; and as the crime was committed principally against the husband, the degree of punishment was left to his discretion.

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2. Exodus 21:23

   But if a serious injury results, then you must require a life for a life—

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   “And if any mischief follow,....

   “God often executes it in the course of his providence, making the punishment, in many cases, to answer to the sin, as Judg. i. Magistrates ought to have an eye to this rule in punishing offenders, and doing right to those that are injured.

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3. Psalms 29:9

   The voice of the LORD twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in His temple all cry, “Glory!”

   ›Commentary on Psalms 29:92 voices

   Ver. 9. The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calve, those timid creatures, in deadly fear of the tempest, drop their burdens in an untimely manner. Perhaps a better reading is, "the oaks to tremble, "especially as this agrees with the next sentence, and discovereth the forests. The dense shades of the forest are lit up with the lurid glare of the lightning, and even the darkest recesses are for a moment laid bare. "The gloomy woods Start at the flash, and from their deep recesses Wide flaming out, their trembling inmates shake."

   “Terror-stricken animals and denuded forests close the illustration. In view of this scene of awful sublimity, God's worshippers respond to the call of Ps 29:2, and speak or cry, "Glory!" By "temple," or "palace" (God's residence, Ps 5:7), may here be meant heaven, or the whole frame of nature, as the angels are called on for praise.

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4. Hosea 9:14

   Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!

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   “Give then - It is an abrupt but pathetic speech of one that shews his trouble for a sinking, undone nation. A miscarrying womb - It is less misery to have none, than to have all our children murdered.

   "Give them, Lord: what will you give them? Give them a womb without children" (Vulg. "sons"), and dry breasts" LXX similarly. If we abuse those things which God gave us for a blessing and they are turned to the opposite of why they were given, it is better for them to be taken away from us.

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