Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 24:4

4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after that she is defiled : for that is abomination before the LORD, and thou shalt not cause the land to sin , which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

This is the punishment of his levity and injustice in putting her away without sufficient cause, which by this offer he now acknowledgeth.

Not simply and absolutely, as if her second Marriage were a sin, but respectively, or as to her first husband, to whom she is as a defiled or unclean woman, that is, forbidden, for things forbidden are accounted and called unclean, Iudg. 13. 7. because they may no more be touched or used than an unclean thing.

(i. e.) Thou shalt not suffer such abhominable lightness and lewdness to be practised, least the people be polluted and the land defiled and accursed by that means.

Marginal references: Jer. 3. 1.; Or, [illegible: 1 word] so Gr.