I contended with them, cursed them, struck certain of them, plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 25. Curse, or excommunicated them, ( Calmet.) the guilty parents. Bible.—Shaved. Hebrew and Septuagint “plucked off their hair,” by the roots, for greater torment. Sometimes quicklime was then sprinkled on the head, ( Calmet.) as adulterers were treated at Athens. Schol. Aristoph.—King Artaxerxes changed this punishment, and ordered that his officers should be forbidden to wear the tiara instead. Domitian caused the hair and beard of Apollonius to be shaven. Philost. iii. 14. Calmet.—That they. Hebrew “Ye shall not,” and so forth