Numbers 35:1
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES IN THE PLAINS OF MOAB BY JORDAN NEAR JERICHO, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES IN THE PLAINS OF MOAB BY JORDAN NEAR JERICHO, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_COMMAND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THAT THEY GIVE UNTO THE LEVITES OF THE INHERITANCE OF THEIR POSSESSION CITIES TO DWELL IN; AND YE SHALL GIVE ALSO UNTO THE LEVITES SUBURBS FOR THE CITIES ROUND ABOUT THEM._ Give unto the Levites ... cities to dwell in. Since the Levites were to have no territorial d... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CITIES SHALL THEY HAVE TO DWELL IN; AND THE SUBURBS OF THEM SHALL BE FOR THEIR CATTLE, AND FOR THEIR GOODS, AND FOR ALL THEIR BEASTS._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AMONG THE CITIES WHICH YE SHALL GIVE UNTO THE LEVITES THERE SHALL BE SIX CITIES FOR REFUGE, WHICH YE SHALL APPOINT FOR THE MANSLAYER, THAT HE MAY FLEE THITHER: AND TO THEM YE SHALL ADD FORTY AND TWO CITIES._ There shall be six cities ... for the manslayer. These were sacred cities, as inhabite... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO ALL THE CITIES WHICH YE SHALL GIVE TO THE LEVITES SHALL BE FORTY AND EIGHT CITIES: THEM SHALL YE GIVE WITH THEIR SUBURBS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CITIES WHICH YE SHALL GIVE SHALL BE OF THE POSSESSION OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: FROM THEM THAT HAVE MANY YE SHALL GIVE MANY; BUT FROM THEM THAT HAVE FEW YE SHALL GIVE FEW: EVERY ONE SHALL GIVE OF HIS CITIES UNTO THE LEVITES ACCORDING TO HIS INHERITANCE WHICH HE INHERITETH._ The cities ...... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN YE SHALL APPOINT YOU CITIES TO BE CITIES OF REFUGE FOR YOU; THAT THE SLAYER MAY FLEE THITHER, WHICH KILLETH ANY PERSON AT UNAWARES._ Slayer may flee ... which killeth any person at unawares. The practice of Go'elism - i:e., of the nearest relation of an individual who was killed being bound t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY SHALL BE UNTO YOU CITIES FOR REFUGE FROM THE AVENGER; THAT THE MANSLAYER DIE NOT, UNTIL HE STAND BEFORE THE CONGREGATION IN JUDGMENT._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IF HE SMITE HIM WITH AN INSTRUMENT OF IRON, SO THAT HE DIE, HE IS A MURDERER: THE MURDERER SHALL SURELY BE PUT TO DEATH._ If he smite him ... Various cases are here enumerated in which the Goel or avenger was at liberty to take the life of the murderer; and every one of them proves a premedita... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT IF HE THRUST HIM SUDDENLY WITHOUT ENMITY, OR HAVE CAST UPON HIM ANY THING WITHOUT LAYING OF WAIT,_ But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity ... Under the excitement of a sudden provocation or violent passion, an injury might be inflicted issuing in death; and for a person who had thus unde... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THESE THINGS SHALL BE FOR A STATUTE OF JUDGMENT UNTO YOU THROUGHOUT YOUR GENERATIONS IN ALL YOUR DWELLINGS._ These things shall be for a statute of judgment. The law of the blood-avenger, as thus established by divine authority, was a vast improvement on the ancient practice of Goelism. By the... [ Continue Reading ]