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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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AVENGER. kinsman avenger.
SLAY HIM. slay his soul. Hebrew. _nephesh_ (App-13), i.e. take his
life....
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_avenger of blood_ Heb. _go-el haddâm_(2 Samuel 14:11; Numbers
35:19-27; Joshua 20:3; Joshua 20:5;...
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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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_LEST THE AVENGER OF THE BLOOD PURSUE THE SLAYER, WHILE HIS HEART IS
HOT, AND OVERTAKE HIM, BECAUSE THE WAY IS LONG, AND SLAY HIM; WHEREAS
HE WAS NOT WORTHY OF DEATH, INASMUCH AS HE HATED HIM NOT IN T...
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19:6 death, (a-32) Lit. 'there was for him no judgment of death.'...
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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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פֶּן ־יִרְדֹּף֩ גֹּאֵ֨ל הַ דָּ֜ם
אַחֲרֵ֣י הָ
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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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_Grief. The law granted so much to the sudden passion of a relation,
who met the man slayer out of the cities of refuge, as not to punish
him if he gave way to the dictates of vengeance, how unjust so...
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It is beautiful to remark the rich provision of gospel mercies, not
only for sins of notorious perverseness, but of ignorance. Alas! who
can tell how oft he offendeth! But in JESUS; whom those cities...
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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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LEST THE AVENGER OF BLOOD PURSUE THE SLAYER,.... These words are to be
connected with Deuteronomy 19:3, where it is ordered to prepare the
way to the cities of refuge, and to divide the land into thre...
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Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is
hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas
he [was] not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in...
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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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lest the avenger of the blood, the near relative upon whom this duty
devolved, PURSUE THE SLAYER WHILE HIS HEART IS HOT, AND OVERTAKE HIM,
BECAUSE THE WAY IS LONG, AND SLAY HIM, strike down his soul,...
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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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SLAY HIM:
_ Heb._ smite him in life
IN TIME PAST:
_ Heb._ from yesterday, third day...
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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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This verse is to be joined with DEUTERONOMY 19:3, as is evident, the
4th and 5th verses coming in as a parenthesis, which is usual in
Scripture and other authors. AND SLAY HIM; which is supposed, but...
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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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III. REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD (DEUTERONOMY 19:1 TO
DEUTERONOMY 21:9).
In this section the question of different ways of shedding blood is
considered. Lying behind this section is t...
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AVENGER
Hebrew, "goel," Redemption (Kinsman type).
(_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 59:20). _...
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Deuteronomy 19:5
I. There are many besides the murderer of Uriah who have need to cry
with him, "Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God." (1) This charge
may have a fearful applicability to Christian...
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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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DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 19:4 The cities of refuge are to
ensure justice for a MANSLAYER who unintentionally kills someone.
Otherwise, he might be killed by the AVENGER OF BLOOD, someone from
t...
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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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2 Samuel 14:7; Deuteronomy 21:22; Deuteronomy 19:4; Jeremiah 26:15;...