Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Deuteronomy 19:3
Prepare thee a way — Distinguish it by evident marks, and make it plain and convenient, to prevent mistakes and delays.
Prepare thee a way — Distinguish it by evident marks, and make it plain and convenient, to prevent mistakes and delays.
Verse Deuteronomy 19:3. _THOU SHALT PREPARE THEE A WAY_] The Jews inform us that the roads to the cities of refuge were made very broad, thirty-two cubits; and even, so that there should be no impedim...
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...
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...
COASTS. borders, or confines....
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...
_prepare thee the way_ Usually taken as making the road open and firm. But (though Steuern."s objection to this meaning, that such preparation would give equal advantage to the pursuer with the pursue...
_VER._ 3. _THOU SHALT PREPARE THEE A WAY,_ &C.— The Jewish rulers added a number of other laws for keeping those roads in continual repair, that the person might meet with no obstruction in his flight...
LESSON FIFTEEN DEUTERONOMY 19:1-21; DEUTERONOMY 21:1-9 f. THE SANCTITY OF LIFE AND PROPERTY (Deuteronomy 19:1-21;...
_THOU SHALT PREPARE THEE A WAY, AND DIVIDE THE COASTS OF THY LAND, WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE TO INHERIT, INTO THREE PARTS, THAT EVERY SLAYER MAY FLEE THITHER._ Thou shalt prepare thee a way....
THE CITIES OF REFUGE. PUNISHMENT OF DECEIT AND FALSE WITNESS 1-13. On the Cities of Refuge see Numbers 35:9 and notes there....
PREPARE THEE A WAY] It was the duty of the Sanhedrim, or chief council of the Jews, to maintain the roads to these cities in good repair, and to have finger-posts where necessary with the words 'Refug...
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...
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...
תָּכִ֣ין לְךָ֮ הַ דֶּרֶךְ֒ וְ שִׁלַּשְׁתָּ֙ א
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...
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...
Thou shalt (a) prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every (b) slayer may flee thither. (a) Make an open and rea...
_Way, and keeping all in good repair, with guide-posts at the crossroads, on which Oleaster says moklot, "escape," was written. See Numbers xxxv._...
It is said that the Jewish magistrates were very particular respecting the observance of this law, and that once in a year a day was set apart to examine whether the ways which led to the cities of re...
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...
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...
THOU SHALT PREPARE THEE A WAY,.... A road, an highway to those cities: on the first of Adar, or February, the magistrates used to meet, and proclaimed, or ordered to be proclaimed, that the ways be re...
Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither. Ver. 3. _Thou shalt prepare thee...
_Thou shalt prepare thee a way_ Make a plain road to them, keep it in good repair, and distinguish it by evident marks, to prevent delays and mistakes, that the manslayer might meet with no difficulty...
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...
REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE CITIES OF REFUGE...
Thou shalt prepare thee a way, keep the roads to these cities in good condition, the passage of the rivers and creeks being an item of great importance, AND DIVIDE THE COASTS OF THY LAND, WHICH THE LO...
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...
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...
THOU SHALT PREPARE THEE A WAY; distinguish it by evident marks, and make it plain and convenient, to prevent mistakes and delays. INTO THREE PARTS; not into more, because it was fit that these places...
"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...
Deuteronomy 19:3 prepare H3559 (H8686) roads H1870 divide H1366 parts H8027 (H8765) territory H1366 land...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
_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...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 19:1__ This section corresponds to the sixth commandment: “You shall not murder” (Deuteronomy 5:17)....
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...
EXPOSITION LAWS CONCERNING CITIES OF REFUGE. LANDMARKS NOT TO BE REMOVED. LAWS CONCERNING WITNESSES. DEUTERONOMY 19:1 Moses had be
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...
Hebrews 12:13; Isaiah 35:8; Isaiah 57:14; Isaiah 62:10...