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Numbers 5:30 KJV
Numbers · chapter 5 · verse 30
Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.Numbers 5:30 · King James Version
Numbers 5:30 in context
28And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
29This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
30Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
31Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- jealousyqinʼâhjealousy or envyH7068 →
- jealousqânâʼto be zealousH7065 →
- executeʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
- spiritrûwachwindH7307 →
- comethʻâbarto cross overH5674 →
- beforepânîymthe faceH6440 →
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We have here the law concerning the solemn trial of a wife whose husband was jealous of her. Observe, I. What was the case supposed: That a man had some reason to suspect his wife to have committed adultery, Num 5:12-14. Here, 1. The sin of adultery is justly represented as an exceedingly sinful sin;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-31