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Food for thought
- Why is it so important to put those worthy of punishment of death on a tree?
- Some commentaries say that Deut. 21:22-23 about hanging a condemned person on a tree after execution is symbolic of the Adam’s failure at the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
- How is this connected to Yeshua’s comment, “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life” (John 3:14-15)?
- How does Deut. 21:18-21 compare to Matt. 11:16-19?
- Why should a grown man obey the voice of his father and mother?
- How is this connected to the Fifth Commandment to honor your parents (Ex. 20:12)?
- Why was Yeshua accused of being a “glutton and a drunkard” (Matt. 11:16-24)?
- Whose father’s or fathers’ voices was Yeshua not obeying, in the perception of the leaders at the time?
- What is the point of the teaching about treatment of a female captive (Deut. 21:10-14)?
- What is God’s solution for unsolved murders (Deut. 21:1-9)?
- What is so special about the heifer mentioned in this passage? (Check out the Hallel Fellowship discussion on Numbers 19.)
- What is the significance of an unworked heifer, unplowed, unsown valley, and running water?
- How is this instruction on the handling of unsolved murders connected to God’s statement that the “voice” of the blood of Abel was “crying out to Me from the ground” (Gen. 4:9-12)?
- Who was to conduct the investigation of such a murder, and how connected were they to the closest jurisdiction to the body?
- Who made the final decision on crimes?