_The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying,_ Ver. 1. _The Lord also spake unto Joshua._] Whether in a sensible apparition, or prophetic revelation, or otherwise: for "at sundry times and in divers manner God spake to those ancients." Heb 1:1... [ Continue Reading ]
Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses: Ver. 2. _Speak unto the children of Israel._] They had been spoken to before by Moses to do thus but made no haste to do it: such is men's slackness in procuring the good of... [ Continue Reading ]
That the slayer that killeth [any] person unawares [and] unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood. Ver. 3. _That killeth any person unawares and unwittingly._] Not presumptuously, with a high hand, and of forethought malice; but either by chance medley,... [ Continue Reading ]
_And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them._ Ver. 4. _And when he that d... [ Continue Reading ]
And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime. Ver. 5. _And if the avenger of blood pursue after him._] _Sanguinem pro interfecto posuit,_ saith Vatablus. If he in the h... [ Continue Reading ]
And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, [and] until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled. Ver. 6. _Until he stand be... [ Continue Reading ]
And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which [is] Hebron, in the mountain of Judah. Ver. 7. _And they appointed Kedesh._] Heb., They sanctified Kedesh; where there is an elegancy in the Hebrew that cannot be Anglised. These cities of r... [ Continue Reading ]
And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh. Ver. 8. _They assigned Bezer._] That is, They confirmed and ratified the... [ Continue Reading ]
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 hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation. Ver. 9. _And for the stranger... [ Continue Reading ]