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This and the next two chapters contain enactments designed to protect
human life, and to impress its sanctity on Israel.
In Deuteronomy 19:1 the directions respecting the preparation of the
roads to t...
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The cities of refuge (lit. of reception, Numbers 35:12 P) were in
criminal law the substitute for the local, now disestablished,
sanctuaries, each sanctuary in ancient times affording temporary
protec...
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BLOOD. murder. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6. Compare
Deuteronomy 19:10....
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_the elders of his city_, etc.] It is not said who are to judge if
wilful murder has been committed (for this see Joshua 20:4-9), but the
elders of the murderer's town are responsible for his delivery...
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LESSON FIFTEEN DEUTERONOMY 19:1-21; DEUTERONOMY 21:1-9
f. THE SANCTITY OF LIFE AND PROPERTY (Deuteronomy 19:1-21;...
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_THAT INNOCENT BLOOD BE NOT SHED IN THY LAND, WHICH THE LORD THY GOD
GIVETH THEE FOR AN INHERITANCE, AND SO BLOOD BE UPON THEE._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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THE CITIES OF REFUGE. PUNISHMENT OF DECEIT AND FALSE WITNESS
1-13. On the Cities of Refuge see Numbers 35:9 and notes there....
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DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE
LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD
DEUTERONOMY
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 19
V1 ‘The *LORD your God will *destroy the nations whose country he
is giving to you. You will...
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Deuteronomy 19:1. THE CITIES OF REFUGE.
(See for more on this subject, Numbers 35:9, &c.; Joshua 20)
(1) WHEN THE LORD THY GOD HATH CUT OFF THE NATIONS. — We find that
the three cities of refuge on t...
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וְ שָֽׁלְחוּ֙ זִקְנֵ֣י עִירֹ֔ו וְ
לָקְח֥וּ אֹ
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THE ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF ISRAELITE LIFE
IT has often and justly been said that the life of Israel is so
entirely founded on the grace and favor of God that no distinction is
made between the secular an...
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Still with his mind on the fact that the people were coming into the
land, Moses made further applications of the laws to the new
conditions. His words now had to do with life and land and truth and
j...
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Then the (f) elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and
deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
(f) The magistrates....
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_His city. Strict enquiry was made into the circumstances attending
the manslaughter, Numbers xxxv. 12. If the refugee was proved guilty,
he was delivered up to the next relation of the deceased to be...
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To explain those verses upon gospel principles, we must have recourse
to what was originally said concerning murder: Genesis 9:6. There
should seem from hence, to be an open and daring attack upon the...
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It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this
book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22.
What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19, 20, AND 21.
Chapter 19 opens with ordinances which contemplate the people in
possession and enjoyment of the land; they were to observe them, that
the la...
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THEN THE ELDERS OF HIS CITY SHALL SEND AND FETCH HIM THENCE,.... The
Targum of Jonathan is,
"the wise men of his city,''
the sanhedrim, or court of judicature, or at least the civil
magistrates of t...
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Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and
deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
Ver. 12. _And fetch him thence._] From the altar to the halter, fr...
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_The elders of his city_ The city of the manslayer. The sense is, that
upon any information or suspicion of murder, laid against any one that
had taken refuge in any of these cities, the magistrates o...
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1 The Cities of refuge.
4 The priuiledge thereof for the manslayer.
14 The land-marke is not to be remooued.
15 Two witnesses at the least.
16 The punishment of a false witnesse.
1 WHEN the LORD t...
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then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence and
deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood that he may die, as
it was a clear case of premeditated, malicious murder....
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REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE CITIES OF REFUGE...
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CITIES OF REFUGE
(vs.1-13)
We have seen in Deuteronomy 4:41 that Moses set aside three cities
east of the Jordan as cities of refuge. Now Moses gives instructions
to Israel that, when God should cut...
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1-13 Here is the law settled between the blood of the murdered, and
the blood of the murderer; provision is made, that the cities of
refuge should be a protection, so that a man should not die for th...
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THE ELDERS OF HIS CITY; either of the slain person, who were most
likely to prosecute the murderer; or of the murderer, because God
would oblige even his own fellow citizens to prosecute him to death,...
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"When the Lord thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the Lord
thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their
cities, and in their houses; thou shalt separate three cities...
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CHAPTER 19 THE SETTING UP OF CITIES OF REFUGE FOR THE MANSLAYER.
TREATMENT OF FALSE WITNESSES.
The section from Deuteronomy 16:18 to Deuteronomy 18:22 has dealt with
setting up the powers in the land...
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CONTENTS: Cities of refuge; landmarks, witnesses.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses.
CONCLUSION: God would possess men with a great horror and dread of the
sin of killing another, even by chance. If by willful...
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Deuteronomy 19:14. _Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark._
This prohibition was salutary in preserving the public peace; it also
extended to the removal of the boundaries between the tribes,...
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_That every slayer may flee thither._
CITIES OF REFUGE
I. There are many, besides the murderer of Uriah, who have need to cry
with him, “deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God.”
1. And, first, sinc...
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DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 19:1__ This section corresponds to
the sixth commandment: “You shall not murder” (Deuteronomy 5:17)....
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CRITICAL NOTES.—This and the next two Chapter s contain enactments
designed to protect human life, and to impress its sanctity on
Israel.—_Speak. Com_.
With Deuteronomy 19:1 _cf_. Exodus 21:13, and Nu...
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EXPOSITION
LAWS CONCERNING CITIES OF REFUGE. LANDMARKS NOT TO BE REMOVED. LAWS
CONCERNING WITNESSES.
DEUTERONOMY 19:1
Moses had be
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Now in the nineteenth chapter again, they are told to establish the
cities of refuge; three of them when they come into the land. Three
had already been established on the other side of Jordan. But wh...
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1 Kings 2:28; 1 Kings 2:5; 1 Kings 2:6...