George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Numbers 35:5
Sea. Hebrew simply, "on the west side 2000 cubits, and on the north side 2000 cubits, and the city in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the city."
Sea. Hebrew simply, "on the west side 2000 cubits, and on the north side 2000 cubits, and the city in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the city."
Verse Numbers 35:5. _AND YE SHALL MEASURE FROM WITHOUT THE CITY - TWO_ _THOUSAND CUBITS, C._] Commentators have been much puzzled with the accounts in these two verses. In Numbers 35:4 the measure is...
FROM WITHOUT THE CITY - Omit “from.” The demarcation here intended would run parallel to the wall of the city, outside which it was made. To guard against any restrictions of area, due to such causes...
11. THE CITIES OF REFUGE CHAPTER 35 _ 1. The provision of the Levites: Forty-eight cities (Numbers 35:1)_ 2. The cities of refuge (Numbers 35:9) The cities of the Levites were scattered through the...
APPOINTMENT OF LEVITICAL CITIES AND CITIES OF REFUGE. This law must be supplementary to, and later than, the law in Numbers 18:8, which does not contemplate the assignment to the Levites of cities in...
TO THEM.. special various reading called _Sevir_ (App-34) reads "to you", with which agree some codices, Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Septuagint, Syriac, and one early print...
_The Levitical cities_ The Levites are to receive 48 cities with their surrounding land (E.VV. -suburbs"), six of which are to be -cities of refuge." The cities are to be contributed by each tribe in...
THE SUBURBS OF THE CITIES SHALL REACH, &C.— In the version of the LXX, _instead of a thousand cubits round about,_ it is _two thousand cubits,_ which, from the next verse, appears evidently to have be...
D. CITIES RESERVED FOR THE LEVITES (NUMBERS 35:1-8) TEXT Numbers 35:1. And the Lord spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, 2. Command the children of Israel, that they...
_AND THE CITIES SHALL THEY HAVE TO DWELL IN; AND THE SUBURBS OF THEM SHALL BE FOR THEIR CATTLE, AND FOR THEIR GOODS, AND FOR ALL THEIR BEASTS._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
35:5 without (a-5) * The city was in the centre and the suburbs extended from the city wall 1,000 cubits on all sides. The full length across each side was 2,000 cubits plus the measurement of the cit...
THE LEVITICAL CITIES. THE CITIES OF REFUGIE 1-8. The Levitical Cities. The tribe of Levi received no part of the land of Canaan as their inheritance (Numbers 18:20; Numbers 26:62). By way of compensa...
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 35 THE TOWNS FOR LEVI’S *TRIBE – NUMBERS 35:1-8 V1 Still the *Israelites were camping on the plains of the cou
AND YE SHALL MEASURE FROM WITHOUT THE CITY ON THE EAST SIDE TWO THOUSAND CUBITS... — The explanation of this passage commonly given by Jewish writers is that the area included by four lines drawn at a...
וּ מַדֹּתֶ֞ם מִ ח֣וּץ לָ † עִ֗יר...
THE CITIES OF REFUGE Numbers 35:1; Numbers 36:1 1. THE INHERITANCE OF THE LEVITES The order relating to the Levitical cities may be said to describe an ideal settlement. We have, at all events, no...
THE CITIES OF REFUGE FOR THE MANSLAYER Numbers 35:1 This chapter is full of provision for the Levites, the chosen ministers of God's house. They who serve there may be at rest about their maintenanc...
It will be remembered that the Levites were not permitted to hold, any inheritance in the land. Jehovah was the portion of their inheritance. Provision was now made for them. Forty-eight cities scatte...
And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side (c) two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thou...
Observe the care of GOD over his ministry. Here, as in the gospel state, the LORD hath provided that they who preach the gospel should live of the gospel. 1 Corinthians 9:14....
The successes given to the children of Israel alarmed some of their neighbours, more particularly Moab; and this gives occasion for a striking episode in the history which brought to issue as solemn a...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 34, 35, AND 36. Finally, God takes care of His people in all respects; He marks the limits of the country they were to enjoy. He settles the taking possessio...
AND YE SHALL MEASURE FROM WITHOUT THE CITY ON THE EAST SIDE TWO THOUSAND CUBITS,.... Before only 1000 cubits were ordered to be measured, and now 2000, even 2000 more, which were to be added to the o...
_From the wall of the city a thousand cubits_ It appears, by comparing these two verses together, that there were three thousand cubits allowed them from the wall of the city; the first thousand, prop...
1 Eight and fourtie Cities for the Leuites with their suburbs, and measure thereof. 6 Sixe of them are to be cities of refuge. 9 The lawes of murder. 31 No satisfaction for murder. 1 AND the LORD...
And ye shall measure from without the city, from its wall or boundary, ON THE EAST SIDE TWO THOUSAND CUBITS, AND ON THE SOUTH SIDE TWO THOUSAND CUBITS, AND ON THE WEST SIDE TWO THOUSAND CUBITS, AND ON...
THE CITIES OF THE LEVITES...
CITIES GIVEN TO THE LEVITES (vs.1-8) The Levites had no tribal possession, but were to be scattered among the tribes so as to serve and teach the ways of the Lord (Deuteronomy 33:10). Therefore the t...
1-8 The cities of the priests and Levites were not only to accommodate them, but to place them, as religious teachers, in several parts of the land. For though the typical service of the tabernacle o...
No text from Poole on this verse....
The opening lines of this most interesting chapter set before us the gracious provision which Jehovah made for His servants the Levites. Each of the tribes of Israel was privileged that we say not bou...
Numbers 35:5 measure H4058 (H8804) outside H2351 city H5892 east H6924 side H6285 thousand H505 cubits...
5). PROVISION OF CITIES TO DWELL IN FOR THE LEVITES (NUMBERS 35:1). As is regular in Numbers the regulations for the Levites follow on after the regulations for the people (compare Numbers 1:1 with Nu...
CONTENTS: The cities of refuge. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: God would teach us to conceive a dread and horror of the guilt of blood and to be very careful of life, lest even by negligence we...
Numbers 35:4. _A thousand cubits on the east side two thousand cubits._ A line of one thousand cubits extending from the centre of the city, east, west, north, and south, would make each side of the s...
_Give unto the Levites. .. cities to dwell in._ THE LEVITES’ INHERITANCE 1. Cities were allowed them with their suburbs (Numbers 35:2). They were not to have any ground for tillage; they needed not t...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 35:1__ The Levites were excluded from inheriting land (Numbers 26:52). They were to live among the people, instructing them in God’s ways. In return, they were to receive
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES This chapter contains directions for the appointment of (1) cities for the Levites to dwell in; and (2) cities of refuge for the manslayer; and laws concerning wilful...
As we get into chapter thirty-five, it describes the cities of refuge that they were to establish, verse two, Command the children of Israel, that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their...
Numbers 35:4...