Joshua 20 - Introduction
_GOD COMMANDETH, AND THE ISRAELITES APPOINT, SIX CITIES OF REFUGE._ _Before Christ 1444._... [ Continue Reading ]
_GOD COMMANDETH, AND THE ISRAELITES APPOINT, SIX CITIES OF REFUGE._ _Before Christ 1444._... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 1-6. _THE LORD ALSO SPAKE UNTO JOSHUA, SAYING,_ &C.— The great work of distributing the lands being now finished, God orders Joshua to put the last hand to the settlement of the cities of refuge, upon the footing which he had specified to Moses. See on Numbers 35 and Deuteronomy 19. The slaye... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 9. _THESE WERE THE CITIES APPOINTED,_ &C.— It is to be observed, that the six cities of refuge were given as a portion to the Levites. See the following chapter. So that those who were unhappily forced to retire thither, met with persons there whose authority could screen them from violence,... [ Continue Reading ]