Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Deuteronomy 4:41
Then Moses severed, set apart, three cities on this side Jordan toward the sun-rising, in the territory of the two and one half tribes,
Then Moses severed, set apart, three cities on this side Jordan toward the sun-rising, in the territory of the two and one half tribes,
Verse Deuteronomy 4:41. _THEN MOSES SEVERED THREE CITIES_] See the law relative to the cities of refuge explained, Numbers 35:11, c....
These verses are inserted between two distinct and complete discourses for the reason to which they themselves call attention (“Then Moses severed three cities,” etc.); i. e., the fact narrated took p...
4. THE THREE CITIES OF REFUGE CHAPTER 4:41-43 _ 1. The cities set apart (Deuteronomy 4:41)_ 2. The cities named (Deuteronomy 4:43) The first address being ended, an action of Moses takes place. To...
THEN. Emphatic, marking the end of his first address. MOSES. Change to third person, not because it is now editorial, but because the first direct address is ended. See note on Deuteronomy 1:1. SEVER...
Historical Note _Then_, i.e. at the time of the preceding discourse in Moab, Moses set apart three cities E. of Jordan as asylums for men, who unwittingly and without previous hatred had slain their f...
_Then Moses separated_ Rather, SET APART. In Deuteronomy 10:8 the verb is used of God's solemn separation of Levi to bear the ark, etc., and in Deuteronomy 29:21 (20) of the idolater to evil. The form...
_VER._ 41. _THEN MOSES SEVERED THREE CITIES_— After the foregoing exhortation, the two conquered countries being now ready to be disposed of to the two tribes and a half, according to agreement, Moses...
APPENDIX: APPOINTMENT OF EASTERN CITIES OF REFUGE (Deuteronomy 4:41-43) 41 Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising; 42 that the manslayer might flee thither, that slay...
_THEN MOSES SEVERED THREE CITIES ON THIS SIDE JORDAN TOWARD THE SUNRISING;_ Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan - (see the notes at Numbers 35:6; Joshua 20:7)....
FIRST DISCOURSE (DEUTERONOMY 1:14 TO DEUTERONOMY 4:43) The long sojourn in the wilderness is now drawing to a close. The Israelites are encamped in the Plains of Moab within sight of the Promised Land...
EXHORTATIONS TO OBEDIENCE This chapter contains the practical part of the discourse. Having briefly rehearsed the experiences of the Israelites in the wilderness up to the present point, Moses closes...
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 4 V1 ‘Therefore, everyone in *Israel, listen to the rules and the laws that I will teach to you...
THE APPOINTMENT OF THREE CITIES OF REFUGE. (41) THEN MOSES SEVERED. — The word “then” appears to be a note of time. It would seem that the appointment of the three cities of refuge on the eastern sid...
אָ֣ז יַבְדִּ֤יל מֹשֶׁה֙ שָׁלֹ֣שׁ עָרִ֔ים בְּ...
ISRAEL'S PECULIAR PRIVILEGES Deuteronomy 4:32 Every argument that love and wisdom, the great past and the miracles of the Exodus could suggest, was brought to bear on the hearts of the chosen people,...
On the ground of this survey Moser exhorted the people to be obedient, His appeal was based on the greatness of their God and the perfection of His law. Their whole existence as a nation centered arou...
Then, &c. This piece of history seems to be placed out of its natural order, by another hand. (Calmet) --- Yet if we attend to the method of Moses, in his other works, we shall not hastily conclude th...
GOD hath given commandment concerning those cities of refuge: Numbers 35:9. But of such importance was the thing itself, that Moses in the very opening as it were, of his sermon, breaks off to follow...
In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be called an abstract typical system. That is, we see in them a number of institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which wa...
God had destined, as we have before seen, (221) six cities for refuge, in case any one had killed a man, provided he could prove his innocence before the judges. As to the three which He had appointed...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1, 2, 3, AND 4. Let us examine a little more closely these Chapter s, which shew the pains the Spirit took, to set before the eyes of the people all the moti...
THEN MOSES SEVERED THREE CITIES,.... To be cities of refuge, according to the command of God, Numbers 35:14 this he did when he had conquered the two kingdoms of the Amorites, that God had given them...
1 An Exhortation to obedience. 41 Moses appointeth the three Cities of refuge on that side Iordan. 1 NOWE therefore hearken, O Israel, vnto the Statutes, and vnto the Iudgments which I teach you, fo...
MOSES INSISTS ON OBEDIENCE (vs.1-14) Because God had already blessed Israel and intended to bless them more greatly still. Moses urges them to "listen to the statutes and judgments" he is teaching th...
41-49 Here is the introduction to another discourse, or sermon, Moses preached to Israel, which we have in the following chapters. He sets the law before them, as the rule they were to work by, the w...
As God had commanded him NUMBERS 35:6,14...
Now therefore hearken O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgements which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth...
Deuteronomy 4:41 Moses H4872 apart H914 (H8686) three H7969 cities H5892 side H5676 Jordan H3383 rising H8121
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FIRST CITIES OF REFUGE (DEUTERONOMY 4:41). The establishing of these cities of refuge was a deliberate act which was a declaration of Moses' certainty that they were now here...
CONTENTS: The new generations taught the lessons of Sinai. Cities of refuge designated. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: The review of God's providences concerning us should quicken us and engage...
Deuteronomy 4:2. _Ye shall not add unto the word._ This would be to debase revelation, and treat the divine law as a defective production of man, that needed additions and retrenchments. Solon, the At...
_Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan, that the slayer might flee thither._ THE CITIES OF REFUGE The cities here mentioned were called the cities of refuge. They were appointed by the...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 4:41__ THREE CITIES of refuge are set apart IN THE EAST BEYOND THE JORDAN. A person guilty of unpremeditated murder could flee to one of these cities to escape revenge...
CRITICAL NOTES.—From the mention of what God had done for Israel, Moses passes to the obedience of the law. They were under deep obligation to keep it, and in doing so, consisted their wisdom, greatne...
EXPOSITION DEUTERONOMY 4:25-5 Moses enforces the warning against idolatry, by predicting the evil that should come upon the nation through the apostasy of those who should in after times turn from Je...
NOW therefore (Deuteronomy 4:1) Moses is now making application. NOW therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and to the judgments, which I teach you, to do them, that you may live, and go in a...
Joshua 20:2; Numbers 35:14; Numbers 35:15; Numbers 35:6...
PARTING WORDS Deuteronomy 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is, perhaps, strange to some that we speak of the fourth chapter of Deuteronomy as "Parting words," yet the whole Book of Deuteronomy centers in t...