Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
A chief man among his people - The word baal signifies a master, chief, husband, etc., and is as variously translated here.
1.He being a chief among the people, it would be improper to see him in such a state of humiliation as mourning for the dead necessarily implies.
2.Though a husband he shall not defile himself even for the death of a wife, because the anointing of his God is upon him. But the first sense appears to be the best.
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