APPOINTMENT OF LEVITICAL CITIES AND CITIES OF REFUGE. This law must be
supplementary to, and later than, the law in Numbers 18:8, which does
not contemplate the assignment to the Levites of cities in addition to
the tithes, and indeed, definitely denies to them any territorial
possessions (Numbers 1... [ Continue Reading ]
CONDITIONS LIMITING THE PRIVILEGE OF SANCTUARY. Anciently the holiness
of a sanctuary extended to all who came in contact with it, so that
the right of asylum was liable to be abused; but by this law
protection at a city of refuge was to be refused to those homicides
who in the judgment of the commu... [ Continue Reading ]