Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 14:1

1 YE are the children of the LORD your God : ye shall not cut your selves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead .

Whom therefore you must not disparage by unworthy or unbecoming practises, such as here follow, and whom you must not disobey.

Which were the practises of Idolaters both in the worship of their Idols, as 1 King. 18. 28. or in their funerals, as here and Ier. 16. 6. or upon occasion of publick calamities, as Ier. 41. 5. and 47. 5. See more on Levit. 19. 27, 28. and 21. 5.

Through excessive sorrow for your dead friends, as if you had no hope of their happiness after death, 1 Thess. 4. 13.

Marginal references: Lev. 19. 28.