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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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THREE CITIES. Compare Numbers 35:14....
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contain several formulas. On _shall cut off_, etc., see Deuteronomy
12:29; on _whose land the Lord thy God_ IS TO GIVE _thee_and _giveth
thee to possess it_, see Deuteronomy 18:9; on _succeed_(disposs...
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_separate_ SET APART, Deuteronomy 4:41....
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_VER._ 2. _IN THE MIDST OF THY LAND_— Rather, _within thy land,_ as
appears from the next verse. The land was to be divided into three
parts; and a city of refuge to be set apart in each, in the most...
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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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_THOU SHALT SEPARATE THREE CITIES FOR THEE IN THE MIDST OF THY LAND,
WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE TO POSSESS IT._ THOU SHALT SEPARATE
THREE CITIES ... IN THE MIDST OF THY LAND. Go'elism, or the...
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IN THE MIDST OF THY LAND] Those on the E. side of the Jordan have
already been assigned: see on Deuteronomy 4:41....
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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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שָׁלֹ֥ושׁ עָרִ֖ים תַּבְדִּ֣יל לָ֑ךְ
בְּ תֹ֣וךְ...
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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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_Cities. These were Hebron, Sichem, and Cades, on the west side of the
Jordan, Josue xx. 7. Those on the east were already appointed, chap.
iv. 41. Three others might also have been added, (ver. 8.; C...
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This is a very sweet chapter if read under the HOLY GHOST's teaching,
and spiritually considered as leading to JESUS. And I take occasion
here again in the opening of it to remind the reader once more...
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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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THOU SHALT SEPARATE THREE CITIES FOR THEE IN THE MIDST OF THY
LAND,.... From the cities they took possession of and dwelt in; and
indeed from the cities of the Levites, which were given to them to
inh...
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_Thou shalt separate three cities for thee_ There were to be six
cities of refuge in all, but Moses had already appointed three on that
side of Jordan where they now were. See Numbers 35:14;
Deuterono...
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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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thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land
which the Lord, thy God, giveth thee to possess it. The reference is
to the land west of Jordan, for the cities in the eastern countr...
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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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IN THE MIDST OF THY LAND, to wit, beyond Jordan, as there were three
already appointed on this side Jordan, NUMBERS 35:14. He saith, _in
the midst of the land_, either for _in the land_, as _in the mi...
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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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Deuteronomy 19:2 separate H914 (H8686) three H7969 cities H5892 midst
H8432 land H776 LORD H3068 God H430 giving
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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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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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Deuteronomy 4:41; Exodus 21:13; Hebrews 6:18; Joshua 20:2; Num
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In the midst of the land — Namely, beyond Jordan, as there were
three already appointed on this side Jordan: In the midst of the
several parts of their land, to which they might speedily flee from
all...