Commentaries:Adam Clarke
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Deuteronomy 22:30
A man shall not take his father' s wife - This is to be understood as referring to the case of a stepmother. A man in his old age may have married a young wife, and on his dying, his son by a former wife may desire to espouse her: this the law prohibits. It was probably on pretense of having broken this law, that Solomon put his brother Adonijah to death, because he had desired to have his father' s concubine to wife, I Kings 2:13-25.
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