Original Hebrew כי3588 שׂנא8130 שׁלח7971 אמר559 יהוה3068 אלהי430 ישׂראל3478 וכסה3680 חמס2555 על5921 לבושׁו3830 אמר559 יהוה3068 צבאות6635 ונשׁמרתם8104 ברוחכם7307 ולא3808 תבגדו׃898
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge VERSE (16) -
De 24:1-4 Isa 50:1 Mt 5:31,32; 19:3-9 Mr 10:2-12 Lu 16:18
SEV Biblia
El que la aborrece enviándola, dijo el SEÑOR Dios de Israel, cubre la iniquidad con su vestido, dijo el SEÑOR de los ejércitos. Guardaos pues en vuestro espíritu, y no seáis desleales.
Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 16. For the Lord-hateth putting away] He abominates all such divorces, and him that makes them.
Covereth violence with his garment] And he also notes those who frame idle excuses to cover the violence they have done to the wives
of their youth, by putting them away, and taking others in their place, whom they now happen to like better, when their own wives
have been worn down in domestic services.
John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 16. The Jews were very much inclined to divorce their wives
upon very trivial occasions; if they did not dress their food well, were not of good behaviour, or not so modest as became the daughters of Israel; if they did not find favour with their husbands; and, especially, if they had entertained a hatred of them: so says R. Judah f57 , “if he hate her, let him put her away:” but this is by some of them restrained to a second wife; for of the first they say, “it is not proper to be hasty to put away a first wife; but a second, if he hates her, let him put her away f58 ” and R. Eleazer says f59 , whoever divorces his first wife, even the altar sheds tears for him, referring to the words in ( Malachi 2:13) and divorces of this kind they only reckon lawful among the Israelites, and found it upon this passage; for so they make God to speak after this manner f60 , “in Israel I have granted divorces; among the nations of the world I have not granted divorces. R. Chananiah, in the name of R.
Phinehas, observes, that in every other section it is written, “the Lord of hosts”; but here it is written, “the God of Israel”, to teach thee that the holy blessed God does not put his name to divorces (or allow them) but in Israel only. R. Chayah Rabba says, the Gentiles have no divorces.”
But some of them have better understanding of these words, and more truly give the sense of them thus, as R. Jochanan does, who interprets them, “the putting away of the wife is hateful f61 ;” it is so to God, and ought not to be done by men but in case of adultery, as our Lord has taught, ( Matthew 5:32 19:9) and which was the doctrine of the school of Shammai in Christ’s time, who taught, “that no man should divorce his wife, unless he found in her filthiness;” i.e. that she was guilty of adultery; though this Maimonides restrains to the first wife, as before: but the house of Hillell, who lived in the same time, was of a different mind, and taught that “if she burnt his food;” either over dressed or over salted it, according to ( Deuteronomy 24:1).
R. Akiba says, if he found another more beautiful than her, according to ( Deuteronomy 24:1), he might divorce her f62 ; of the form of a divorce, (see Gill on “ Matthew 5:31”). Those interpreters among Christians that go this way do not look upon this as an approbation of divorce, on account of hatred; but that so to do is better than to retain them with hatred of them, seeing it was connived at, or than to take other wives
with them. 
