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Deuteronomy 24:5

in Deuteronomy 24

If a man is newly married, he must not be sent to war or be pressed into any duty. For one year he is free to stay at home and bring joy to the wife he has married.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.

KJV

When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

This verse in Deuteronomy 24

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

When a man hath taken a new wife - Other people made a similar provision for such circumstances. Alexander ordered those of his soldiers who had married that year to spend the winter with their wives, while the army was in winter quarters. See Arrian, lib. i.

This site's exposition

If a man is newly married

on Deuteronomy 24:5-9

Verses 6 and 7 both guard a man's life. A millstone taken in pledge takes “one’s livelihood”, and kidnapping is capital, as Exodus 21:16 had said.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

When a man hath taken a new wife,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

It is of great consequence that love be kept up between husband and wife, and that every thing be very carefully avoided which might make them strange one to another, especially at first; for in that relation, where there is not the love that should be, there is an inlet ready to abundance of guilt and grief.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war--This law of exemption was founded on good policy and was favorable to matrimony, as it afforded a full opportunity for the affections of the newly married pair being more firmly rooted, and it diminished or removed occasions for the divorces just mentioned.

The words behind it

23 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • כִּֽי־if

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • יִקַּ֥חhe will take

    yikachH3947 →966 times

  • אִישׁ֙man

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • אִשָּׁ֣הa wife

    ʾishahH802 →781 times

  • חֲדָשָׁ֔הnew

    chadashahH2319 →53 times

  • לֹ֤אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • יֵצֵא֙he will go out

    yetze'H3318 →1067 times

  • בַּצָּבָ֔אwith the army

    batzava'H6635 →485 times

  • וְלֹא־and not

    velo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • יַעֲבֹ֥רit will pass

    yaavorH5674 →556 times

  • עָלָ֖יוon him

    ʾalavH5921 →5755 times

  • לְכָל־to any

    lekholH3605 →5413 times

  • דָּבָ֑רthing

    davarH1697 →1440 times

  • נָקִ֞יfree

    nakiH5355 →43 times

  • יִהְיֶ֤הhe will be

    yihyehH1961 →3559 times

  • לְבֵיתוֹ֙to house his

    leveitoH1004 →2046 times

  • שָׁנָ֣הa year

    shanahH8141 →877 times

  • אֶחָ֔תone

    ʾechatH259 →971 times

  • וְשִׂמַּ֖חand he will cause to rejoice

    vesimachH8055 →155 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אִשְׁתּ֥וֹwife his

    ʾishtoH802 →781 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־whom

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • לָקָֽח׃ סhe has taken

    lakachH3947 →966 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 2:24

    For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

    it leads to

    • Matthew 19:3–9

      Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

    • Ephesians 5:28–31

      In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

    • Mark 10:6–12

      However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

    • Romans 7:2

      For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

    • 1 Peter 3:1–7

      Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives

  • Through

    Proverbs 5:18

    May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:

    it leads to

    • Ecclesiastes 9:9

      Enjoy life with your beloved wife all the days of the fleeting life that God has given you under the sun—all your fleeting days. For this is your portion in life and in your…

    • Malachi 2:14–15

      Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your…

    • Song of Solomon 4:15

      You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.