JOSHUA CHAPTER 20 God commands six cities of refuge for those who unawares should slay a man, JOSHUA 20:1. The right use of them, JOSHUA 20:5,6. The Israelites appoint hereunto three cities on this, and three on the other side of Jordan, JOSHUA 20:7. No text from Poole on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
The possessions being now divided among you, do you reserve some of them for the use which I have commanded.... [ Continue Reading ]
UNAWARES AND UNWITTINGLY, Heb. _through ignorance, or error, or mistake, and without knowledge_; the same thing twice repeated, to cut off all the claims and expectations that wilful murderers might have of protection here; and God having declared that such should be taken even from his altar, that... [ Continue Reading ]
The judges used to sit AT THE ENTERING OF THE GATE. His cause, or, his matters or business, what he hath done, and why, and how; he shall give them a true relation of the fact, and all its circumstances. THEY SHALL TAKE HIM INTO THE CITY; understand, if they are satisfied in the relation he makes co... [ Continue Reading ]
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Standing was the posture of the accused and accusers, EXODUS 18:13 ISAIAH 1:8 MALACHI 3:1. BEFORE THE CONGREGATION, or, _company_, or _assembly_, to wit, the council appointed to judge of these matters: not the council of the city of refuge, for they had examined him before, JOSHUA 20:4; but of the... [ Continue Reading ]
Concerning these cities, note, 1. That they were all upon mountains, that they might be seen at a great distance, and so direct those who fled thither. 2. That they were seated at convenient distance one from another, for the benefit of the several tribes; for Kedesh was in the north, Hebron in th... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY ASSIGNED, or _gave_, or _had assigned_, or GIVEN; for they were given by Moses, DEUTERONOMY 4:41, &c.; or they confirmed Moses's grant, and applied them to that use to which Moses designed and separated them.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE STRANGER; not only proselytes, but others also; because this was a matter of common right, that a distinction might be made between casual man-slayers and wilful murderers.... [ Continue Reading ]