From Nave’s Topical Bible
Kidnapping
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 3Passages listed
- 3Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- ForbiddenExodus 21:16Deuteronomy 24:7
- INSTANCE OFJudges 21:20–23
The passages, in Bible order (3)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 3 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Exodus 21:16
Whoever kidnaps another man must be put to death, whether he sells him or the man is found in his possession.
Commentary on Exodus 21:162 voices
And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
He that stealeth a man - By this law every man-stealer, and every receiver of the stolen person, should lose his life; no matter whether the latter stole the man himself, or gave money to a slave captain or negro-dealer to steal him for him.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
- Deuteronomy 24:7
If a man is caught kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. So you must purge the evil from among you.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 24:72 voices
If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel,.... Whether grown up or little, male or female, an Israelite or a proselyte, or a freed servant; all, as Maimonides (f) says, are included in this general word "brethren"; though Aben Ezra observes, that it is added, "of the children of Israel", for explanation, since an Edomite is called a "brother".
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
It was not death by the law of Moses to steal cattle or goods; but to steal a child, or a weak and simple man, or one that a man had in his power, and to make merchandize of him, this was a capital crime, and could not be expiated, as other thefts, by restitution--so much is a man better than a sheep, Matt. xii.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Judges 21:20–23
So they commanded the Benjamites: “Go, hide in the vineyards
Commentary on Judges 21:20–232 voices
But relenting at having laid so hard a sentence on their brothers, they moderated their severity so as to give them in marriage those maidens that had lost their parents, whose fathers had been slain for their sins, or to give them the means of finding a wife by a raid. Because of the villainy of so foul a deed, they who had violated another's marriage rights were shown to be unworthy to ask for marriage. But for fear that one tribe might perish from the people, they connived at the deceit.
Ambrose of Milan· On the Duties of the Clergy 3.19.115, 397Patristic
Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed