The Law in the Scriptures, with Explanations of the Law Terms and Legal References in Both the Old and the New Testaments / Edward J. White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Edward J. (Edward Joseph), 1869-1935, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible and law.

Jewish law--History--To 1500--Sources.

Jewish law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 422 pages)

Place of Publication:

St. Louis, Missouri : Thomas law book company, 1965.

Contents:

I. Genesis

1. Creation of man

2. The Sabbath

3. Woman

4. The first murder

5. Sacrifices to the Lord

6. God's injunction to Noah against homicide

7. The Hebrew law of tithes

8. Abram's promised heir

9. Hagar's legal status

10. God's covenant with Abram

11. Circumcision

12. Reason for Sodom's destruction

13. Lot's incest with his daughters

14. Abraham's temptations

15. Abraham acquires sepulcher for Sarah

16. Abraham exacts oath from his servant

17. Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah

18. Abraham's gift to Isaac

19. Esau sells his birthright

20. Jacob's fraud and Isaac's blessing

21. Jacob's oath to give tithes

22. Jacob's apprenticeship to Laban

23. Jacob's covenant with Laban

24. Defilement of Jacob's daughter, Dinah

25. Sale of Joseph by his brothers

26. Joseph's imprisonment

27. Taxation under Pharaoh

28. Jacob's adoption of Manasseh and Ephraim

II. Exodus

1. Pharaoh's proclamation for death of Hebrew sons

2. Adoption of Moses by Pharaoh's daughter

3. Moses slays and Egyptian

4. Bondage of Hebrews under Egyptians

5. God renews His covenant with Moses

6. The feast of the Passover

7. Pharaoh's dismissal of the Israelites

8. Spoliation of the Egyptians

9. Exodus of the Israelites

10. Destruction of Pharaoh's soldiers

11. The ordinance of Marah

12. Injunction against labor on the Sabbath

13. Selection and qualification of judges

14. God's covenant with Moses at Sinai

15. The Ten Commandments

16. The law concerning altars

17. Relation of master and servant

18. Rights of female slaves

19. Sanctuary in cases of manslaughter

20. Patricide and matricide, punishable by death

21. Kidnapping punished by death

22. Compensation for assault

23. Penalties for injuring servants

24. Punishment for causing miscarriage

25. Lex Talionis

26. Injuries from vicious animals

27. Injuries from unprotected pit

28. Pecuniary punishment for theft

29. Possession of stolen property

30. Damage to field or vineyard

31. Damage from setting out fire

32. Theft from bailee

33. Double damages for trespass

34. Liability of bailee for hire

35. Damages for seduction

36. Witchcraft punishable by death

37. Sodomy a capital crime

38. Death for afflicting widows and orphans

39. Law against exaction of usury

40. Pledge of neighbor's raiment forbidden

41. Blasphemy and seduction

42. Offerings to the Lord

43. Eating of torn flesh forbidden

44. Slander forbidden by the code

45. Injunction against perverting justice

46. Warning against acceptance of gifts

47. Law regarding cultivation of land

48. Commandment against worshiping other gods

49. Feasts of unleavened bread, firstfruits and ingathering

50. The first census

51. Ceremonial Law concerning the tabernacle

52. The Mosaic and Babylonian codes compared III. Leviticus

1. The Law in Leviticus

2. Ceremony of offerings regulated by code

3. Restoration of thing wrongfully acquired

4. Law against eating unclean beasts

5. Law governing treatment of lepers

6. Laws of Egypt and Canaan interdicted

7. Incest defined and punished

8. Inhibition against false weights and measures

9. Prohibition against priest's marriage with divorcee or harlot

10. Feasts of atonement and tabernacle

11. Stoning to death for blasphemy

12. Redemption after sale of land

13. Israelites not to be sold into slavery

IV. Numbers

1. The second and third census

2. Recompense for trespass

3. Defilement of a man's wife

4. The law of the Nazirite

5. Law governing the Levites

6. The Mosaic law of descent

7. Concerning vows and bonds

8. Disposition of promised land by lot

9. Establishment of cities of refuge

10. Murderer denied right of asylum

11. One witness could not convict of murder

12. Rule against bribery in murder case

13. Marriages within ancestral tribe

V. Deuteronomy

1. Moses' standard for judges

2. Other gods: injunction against worshiping

3. Debts released after seven years

4. People enjoined to obey judgments

5. Moses foretells future Hebrew prophet

6. Removal of landmarks

7. False witness punished by Lex Talionis

8. Law of war

9. Right of first-born son

10. Death for incorrigible son

11. Punishment by hanging

12. Regulating raiment worn by men and women

13. Charging bride with previous unchastity

14. Punishment for adultery and fornication

15. Harsh rule against bastards

16. Bill of divorcement

17. Personal responsibility for crime

18. Obligation toward poor at harvest

19. Beating an authorized punishment

20. Husband's brother required to marry his widow

21. Joshua appointed ruler

22. Authorship of the Pentateuch

VI. Joshua

1. Joshua makes slaves of Hivites

2. Partition of the Promised Land

3. Description of land partitioned

4. Joshua's covenant with God

VII. Judges

1. Israel's judges

2. Deborah, the female judge

3. Gideon tendered hereditary judgeship

4. Fraticide of Abimelech

5. Jephthah's disqualification to inherit

6. Sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter

7. Hebrew marriage by capture

VIII. Ruth

1. Boaz recognizes Levirate law applicable to Ruth

2. Renunciation of Ruth's brother-in-law under levirate law IX. 1 Samuel

1. Samuel becomes supreme judge

2. Samuel's sons accept bribes

3. Samuel's argument against monarchy

4. "God save the king"

5. Samuel blameless before his people

6. Obeying God's laws more important than sacrifices

7. Samuel applies Lex Talionis to Agag

8. David's trail by combat with Goliath

9. Saul's assault upon David

10. David marries Saul's daughter, Michal

11. Covenant between David and Jonathan

12. Saul's murder of the priests

13. David no regicide

14. David takes Abigail as wife

15. David distributes spoils according to Law

16. Saul a Felo-de-se

X. II Samuel

1. David secures return of Michal, his wife

2. Joab slays Abner

3. Ish-bosheth, son of Saul, murdered

4. David made king over all Israel

5. Mephibosheth inherits Saul's lands

6. David's adultery with Bath-sheba and murder of Uriah

7. Amnon's ravishment of Tamar and Absalom's revenge

8. Absalom's conspiracy and treason

9. David takes a census of Israel

XI. I Kings

1. Solomon anointed king

2. Adonijah claims sanctuary

3. David's final advice to Solomon

4. Solomon had Adonijah killed

5. Solomon takes Joab from the altar

6. Solomon takes the daughter of Pharaoh to wife

7. Solomon's wise judgment regarding maternity of child

8. Consecration of Solomon's temple

9. Cherchez la femme

10. Jeroboam made king of Israel

11. Elijah's vision of God

12. Jezebel has Naboth killed to possess his land

XII. II Kings

1. Elijah's judgment against Ahaziah

2. Elisha helps a widow deliver her sons as bondmen

3. Elisha cures Naaman, the leper

4. Jehu destroys Baalites

5. Deposition and death of Queen Athaliah

6. Amaziah spared the children of his father's murderers

7. Ahaz's son's trial by ordeal

8. God's judgment during reign of Manasseh

9. Zedekiah blinded and taken prisoner by Nebuchadnezzar

XIII. I Chronicles

Saul's violation of commandments brought his destruction

2. David revered God's name

3. David selected able Levitical leaders

4. God's judgment forbade David to build temple

5. David's commission to Solomon

XIV. II Chronicles

1. Solomon prayes for wisdom to judge well

2. Jehoshaphat's charge to the judges

3. Israel make children of Judah captives

4. Cyrus' proclamation to rebuild the temple

XV. Ezra

1. Complaint that the Jews would not pay taxes

2. Darius decrees completion of the temple

3. Ezra goes to Jerusalem

4. Ezra's commission from Artaxerxes

5. Prevalency of mixed marriages

6. Ezra decrees divorcement of all foreign women

XVI. Nehemiah

1. Nehemiah commissioned to visit Jerusalem

2. Nehemiah's difficulties as governor of Judah

3. Nehemiah and Israelites make covenant with God

4. Nehemiah expels Tobiah from temple

5. Nehemiah testifies against profaners of Sabbath

6. Nehemiah makes Israelites divorce foreign wives XVII. Esther

1. Ahasuerus divorces Vashti

Esther is chosen Queen

3. Mordecai discovers treason of Bigthan and Teresh

4.

Haman secures proclamation for destruction of the Jews

5. Esther secures revocation of King's decree

6. The festival of Purim

XVIII. Job

1. God's judgment supreme

2. Man cannot judge or question God

3. Man born to err

4. Admissions the strongest evidence

5. Job's witness in heaven

Job proposes a covenant with God

6. Crimes are not hidden from God

7. God's judgments cannot be annulled

XIX. Psalms

1. God's law brings man's delight

2. God judges people

3. God's law is perfect

4. David would make the Lord his Counselor

5. Legal sacrifices will not save the slanderer

6. Publication of the commandments

7. Penalty of violating commandments

8. God's court, compared to man's

9. God's covenant with David

10. Just judgments mark the strength of kings

11. God will cut off the slanderer

XX. Proverbs

1. Danger of becoming surety

2. Adultery worse than theft

3. Safety in multitude of counselors

4. Cross-examination breaks down weak cause

5. Kings should judge justly

6. Punishment of false witness

7. False weights an abomination to the Lord

8. Corrupt judiciary will overthrow government

9. Happy the man who keepeth the law

10. Strong drink may pervert justice

XXI. Ecclesiastes

1. Wickedness near the judgment seat

2. Profit of the earth for all

3. Use of property alone brings happiness

4. Both man's and God's laws should be obeyed

5. "Fear God and keep His commandments"

Chapter XXII. Isaiah

1. A nation prospers only where justice prevails

2. Through God only can justice supersede war

3. Prediction concerning the Messiah

4. Effects of prohibition

5. "Judgment to the line"

6. Creature estopped to deny Creator

7. The Lord the source of earthly power

8. All men witnesses of the Lord

9. The Lord did not divorce Israel

10. When justice standeth afar off

Chapter XXIII. Jeremiah

1. Israel and Judah worship false gods

2. Captivity the punishment for deserting God

3. God's covenant with Jeremiah

4. Penalty for breach of God's covenant

5. Israel a forsaken heritage

6. False prophets consumed by sword and famine

7. Jeremiah in the stocks

8. Jeremiah buy inheritance from Hanameel

9. Zedekiah blinded by the King of Babylon

Chapter XXIV. Ezekiel

1. The prophet's roll

2. Bread by weight and water by measure

3. Banishment the penalty for violating God's laws

4. Neither buyer nor seller exempt

5. Responsibility under the law personal

6. Judah like a woman who violated wedlock

7. Son not responsible for father's crimes

8. Pardon for past sins

9. Israel to be stoned like a harlot

10. Ezekiel's vision of the Savior

11. Clothing prescribed for priests and Levites

12. Levite not to marry a divorced woman

13. Priests to sit in judgment

14. Prince not to confiscate subject's property

15. Suggested division of civil and ecclesiastical power

Chapter XXV. Daniel

1. Daniel refuses the king's meat

2. Daniel saves Babylon's wise men

3. Daniel and associates refuse to worship golden image

4. Daniel in the lion's den

5. God's kingdom everlasting

6. Daniel's acknowledgment of the Law

7. Tyrannical and sacrilegious king overthrown

Chapter XXVI. Hosea

1. Hosea's "wife of whoredom"

2. Asking counsel at the stocks

3. God demands mercy rather than sacrifices

4. Israel's kings not set up by God

5. Monotheism the great principle of God's law

6. Israel preserved by her prophets

Chapter XXVII. Joel

1. Penalty for trading in Israelites

Chapter XXVIII. Amos

1. Violation of God's laws brings inevitable punishment

2. Seek God and live

3. Establish justice and God may forgive

Chapter XXIX. Jonah

"The lot fell upon Jonah"

Chapter XXX. Micah

1. Flaying a violation of God's law

2. Judges judge for reward

3. Compliance with higher law alone brings peace

4. Prediction concerning the Messiah

5. Man's duty to God

Chapter XXXI. Zechariah

1. The Spirit of the Lord all powerful

2. "Execute true judgment"

3. Zechariah's prediction of the Messiah

Chapter XXXII. Matthew

1. Fulfillment of the divine law

2. Testimony of John the Baptist

3. Jesus' acknowledgment of the law

4. Healing the sick

5. Jesus' declaration that He fulfilled the law

6. Jesus' interpretation of the commandments

7. The Lord's prayer

8. "No man can serve two masters"

9. "Judge not"

10. "The golden rule"

11. Christ's testimony on John the Baptist

12. Jesus heals on the Sabbath

13. Christ's covenant with Peter

14. Jesus approved divorce for fornication only

15. Jesus rides upon an ass

16. Jesus casts out the money changers

17. Christ stood for governmental authority

18. Jesus interprets the Levirate law

19. Monotheism the greatest commandment

20. Sanctity of an oath

21. Mercy and faith more important than tithes

22. Treason of Judas Iscariot

23. Institution of the Lord's Supper

24. Arrest and trial of Jesus

25. The resurrection

Chapter XXXIII. Luke

1. Condemnation of lawyers

2. Charge against covetousness

3. Agree with adversary

4. Forgiveness for sin: the prodigal son

5. "Kingdom of God is within you"

6. Christ's commission to His apostles

Chapter XXXIV. John

1. John's testimony regarding destruction and rebuilding of temple

2. Man must be born of water and spirit

3. "God is a spirit"

4. Jesus is the bread of life

5. The law hears before it judges

6. Let him without sin cast a stone

7. "The truth shall make you free"

8. God's law of life everlasting

9. "Love one another"

10. "Feed My sheep"

Chapter XXXV. Acts

1. Early Christians held property in common

2. Arrest of Peter and John

3. Ananias withholds part of price of his land

4. Gamaliel's defense of the apostles

5. Stoning of Stephen

6. God's gifts may not be purchased

7. Saul's commission to arrest in Damascus

8. Paul avoids arrest in Damascus

9. Controversy over conversion of Gentiles

10. Peter's release from prison

11. Paul declares Jesus' mission under the law

12. Paul and Silas imprisoned in Philippi

13. Jason gives security to keep the peace

14. Paul brought before Gallio, in Corinth

15. Demetrius causes insurrection at Ephesus

16. Paul's arrest and prosecution at Jerusalem

17. Paul's trial before the Sanhedrin

18. Paul's trial before Antonius Felix

19. "I appeal to Caesar"

Chapter XXVI. Romans

1. Salvation to all who believe

2. God judges the judge

3. Not hearers, but doers of the law are justified

4. The law established through faith

5. By mind alone can God's laws be obeyed

6. Christ the end of the law

7. Love is the fulfillment of the law

Chapter XXXVII. 1 Corinthians

1. Man is the temple of God

2. Inviolability of the marriage bond

3. The law of power through service

4. Man should pray with uncovered head

5. Examine yourself before partaking of communion

6. Charity the greatest Christian virtue

7. Church should not be addressed in unknown tongue

8. Women should remain silent in church

9. Belief in resurrection essential to salvation

Chapter XXXVIII. II Corinthians

1. Christ stands for liberty

2. "God loveth a cheerful giver"

3. Paul's testimony regarding Christ

Chapter XXXIX. Galatians

1. Righteousness comes through Christ alone

2. The law like a schoolmaster

3. Circumcision alone will not save

4. Law exemplified by love for neighbor

Chapter XL. Ephesians

1. Christ the earnest of our inheritance

2. Duty of husbands and wives

3. Reciprocal duty of parent and child

4. Duty of master and servant

Chapter XLI. 1 Timothy

1. Law made for the lawless

2. Qualifications of a bishop

3. Qualifications for a deacon

4. Charges against elders

Chapter XLII. II Timothy

Inspiration of the Scriptures

Chapter XLIII. Titus

Christians to obey magistrates

Chapter XLIV. Hebrews

1. Christ's scepter of righteousness

2. Christ performed God's oath of Abraham

3. Jesus surety for a better testament

4. Christ fulfills the new covenant

5. Christ the mediator of the New Testament

6. Punishment for those rejecting Christ

7. Triumph of faith under the law

8. God chasteneth whom He loves

9. Avoid strange doctrines

Chapter XLV. James

1.

Evidence of pure religion

2. The poor heirs of God's kingdom

3. God's wisdom evidenced by peace

4. Avoid taking oaths

Chapter XLVI. II Peter

Those despising covenant condemned

Chapter XLVII. 1 John

1. John's evidence regarding the resurrection

2. Man must love God and His children

3. God's record above that of man

Chapter XLVIII. Revelation

Saint John's prophetic view.

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