Deuteronomy 25:11-19
Miscellaneous Laws
11 “If two men fight together, and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one attacking him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the genitals, 12 then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not pity her.
13 “You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light. 14 You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. 15 You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God is giving you. 16 For all who do such things, all who behave unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.
Destroy the Amalekites
17 “Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt, 18 how he met you on the way and attacked your rear ranks, all the stragglers at your rear, when you were tired and weary; and he did not fear God. 19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from your enemies all around, in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. You shall not forget.
These last assortment of laws was followed by a reminder to not forget the attacks of the adversary on the way to the promised land. The laws addressed clean fighting with dignity and the harsh punishment for crippling defenses that could end a man’s lineage to stop others from repeating that sin. They also covered fairness beyond while fighting into that of a fair price for the advertised amount of what was being sold as not to deceive for added profit. It was clearly mad known that fair dealings were rewarded but the unrighteous who deal with deceit and malicious harm were to suffer shorter lives and earn the title of abomination to the LORD. This ended the chapter as section of this discourse with the reminder of the adv, the Amalekites, who attacked God’s people on the way to the country promised by God to them. They had no fear of God and picked off the weary at the trailing end of the army of God. They had no dignity or sense of fair play in so doing, but God promised His people that they would one day find rest from such adversaries and then their own would find recompense (Revelation 6:10) from the LORD for their sinful actions of rejecting God and attacking His chosen ones who were the apples of His eye, beloved and protected for their future eternal home with Him. This is a shadow of our own strife with the adversary (Revelation 12:17) which will end in victory and defeat (Revelation 20:10) of the one attempting to keep us or hinder us on the way to the promised heavenly country and the Celestial City of God in Christ. We will hear the old words then repeated, “You shall not forget,” but it will not be us defeating the adversary, but our Sovereign Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! Hold fast and stay the course (Ephesians 610-11) as we fight the good fight against the enemy for the souls of men and women with the gospel sword until justice reigns down (Amos 5:24) from Heaven on earth. You shall not forget, and He cannot, until righteousness and justice in His grace are executed on the earth. May we fight a clean fight in holiness without compromising God’s word with dignity and fairness. Amen.
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