Strangers. The limitations of the Jews in favour of their own nation are rejected. The civil and criminal law should affect all alike, except, God order it otherwise. --- Stand. This was the posture of the people accused, while the judges sat. (Drusius) (Calmet)
Verse Joshua 20:9. _FOR ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND FOR THE STRANGER_] As these typified the great provision which God was making for the salvation of both Jews and Gentiles, hence the _stranger_...
7. THE CITIES OF REFUGE CHAPTER 20 _ 1. The ordinance repeated (Joshua 20:1)_ 2. The cities named (Joshua 20:7) The reader will find the meaning of the ordinance of the cities of refuge in Numbers...
JOSHUA 20. THE CITIES OF REFUGE. The cities of refuge (p. 113) were not appointed till after the Deuteronomic reform under Josiah in Joshua 6:21. In early times the asylum or refuge for the manslayer...
KILLETH ANY PERSON. smiteth. soul". Hebrew. _nephesh._ See App-13....
The Selection of the Cities of Refuge 7. _And they appointed_ Rather, they SANCTIFIED, SET APART FOR A SACRED PURPOSE. The Cities of Refuge were intended to preserve the People and the Land of Jehovah...
_These were the cities appointed_ "Civitates constitutæ," Vulgate. "The citees ordeyned," Wyclif. _for the stranger that sojourneth_ "And to comlyngis that dwellen among hem;" Wyclif. Observe that th...
_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 unhappil...
_The Appointment of the Cities of Refuge Joshua 20:7-9_ 7 And they appointed Kedesh in Gaililee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Ju...
_THESE WERE THE CITIES APPOINTED FOR ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND FOR THE STRANGER THAT SOJOURNETH AMONG THEM, THAT WHOSOEVER KILLETH ANY PERSON AT UNAWARES MIGHT FLEE THITHER, AND NOT DIE BY THE H...
THE APPOINTMENT OF CITIES OF REFUGE The allotment of the tribal inheritance is followed by the appointment of six cities of refuge previously provided and in part assigned by Moses, according to the t...
UNTIL HE STOOD BEFORE THE CONGREGATION] The purpose is to provide every homicide a fair trial: see Numbers 35:12; Numbers 35:24. If he is found guilty of murder, the City of Refuge is no sanctuary to...
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CHAPTER XXVII. THE CITIES OF REFUGE. Joshua 20:1. CITIES of refuge had a very prominent place assigned to them in the records of the Mosaic legislation. First, in that which all allow to be the earl...
CITIES OF REFUGE Joshua 20:1 These arrangements carried out Numbers 35:9. Remember the distinction between deliberate murder and unintentional homicide. Only those who had committed the latter were...
Having come into possession of the land, the cities of refuge were provided according to arrangements already made. Three were fixed on the west of the Jordan and three on the east. They wire so place...
God gave Moses direction concerning the cities of refuge in Numbers 35:9-33; Deuteronomy 4:41-43; Deuteronomy 19:1-21. In...
These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth [any] person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the...
Reader! observe in this verse, how thy God, had an eye to the Gentile church, even from the beginning. The stranger is regarded, as well as the Israelite. May we not say upon it, as the Holy Ghost hat...
In the wars of Jehovah it was not always a question of hostile power. Indeed this is not the most serious evil which the people of God have to encounter in this world. The very same principle which wa...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 12 THROUGH 24. Chapter 12 is only a summary of their conquests. The Holy Ghost not only gives us the victory over our enemies, but makes us understand and kno...
THESE WERE THE CITIES APPOINTED FOR ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,.... For the common use of them all, and not for that tribe only in which they stood: AND FOR THE STRANGER THAT SOJOURNETH AMONG THEM; n...
These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth [any] person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the...
_On the other side Jordan they assigned_ Or _had assigned_, or _given;_ for these cities were assigned by Moses before he died, Deuteronomy 4:41. They were not, however, properly speaking, invested wi...
1 God commandeth, 7 and the children of Israel appoint the sixe cities of Refuge. 1 THE LORD also spake vnto Ioshua, saying, 2 Speake to the children of Israel, saying, [NOTE: Exodus 21:13; Numbers...
These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, literally, "the cities of appointment," AND FOR THE STRANGER THAT SOJOURNETH AMONG THEM, THAT WHOSOEVER KILLETH ANY PERSON AT UNAWARES M...
The Cities of Refuge. Since the Lord had commanded, Numbers 35, that cities of refuge should be chosen in various parts of the country, this matter was next attended to....
SIX CITIES OF REFUGE (vs.1-9) God had before directed that He would appoint six cities of refuge in Israel (Numbers 35:9), and now that Israel is settled in the land these cities are to be designated...
7-9 These cities, as those also on the other side Jordan, stood so that a man might in half a day reach one of them from any part of the country. God is ever a Refuge at hand. They were all Levites'...
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....
Joshua 20:9 cities H5892 appointed H4152 children H1121 Israel H3478 stranger H1616 dwelt H1481 (H8802) among H8432 kil
‘ These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever kills any person unwittingly might flee there, and not die by the hand of t...
CONTENTS: Cities of refuge. CHARACTERS: God, Joshua. CONCLUSION: Other refuge have we none, in any trouble, save Him in whom our trust is stayed. KEY WORD: Refuge, Joshua 20:2. STRONG VERSES: Josh...
Joshua 20:2. _Cities of refuge,_ all of which were inhabited by the levites. See on Numbers 35. Some heathen temples, and after them christian churches, were places of refuge. In the laws of king Ina,...
_Cities of refuge _ THE CITIES OF REFUGE 1_._ The first thought that naturally occurs to us when we read of these cities concerns the sanctity of human life; or, if we take the material symbol, the...
JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 20:1__ The designation of six cities of refuge (ch. Joshua 20:1) and 48 Levitical cities (Joshua 21:1
JOSHUA 20:7. AND THEY APPOINTED] _Marg_., “sanctified.” These cities were consecrated, as holy, to the sacred work of preserving life. Hence, only Levitical cities were chosen. Life was to be thus pre...
EXPOSITION THE CITIES OF REFUGE.— JOSHUA 20:1 CITIES OF REFUGE. The original is more definite, the cities of refuge. So LXX. WHEREOF I SPAKE TO YOU. In Exodus 21:1
Now in the twentieth chapter you remember that when they came into the land, they were to establish cities of refuge so that anybody who had killed someone accidentally, who had not had a foremalice o...
Joshua 20:4; Joshua 20:6; Numbers 35:15...
THE SIX CITIES OF REFUGE Joshua 20:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Our study is about the six cities of refuge. We will open the study by considering the statements set forth in our Daily Bible Readings: 1. C...
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....