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...
PUT AWAY,. C. See note on Deuteronomy 13:5....
Only by such action on the part of the local authorities and the kinsmen of the murdered man can the guilt of the crime be removed from the whole nation. To this extent the ancient custom of the vende...
LESSON FIFTEEN DEUTERONOMY 19:1-21; DEUTERONOMY 21:1-9 f. THE SANCTITY OF LIFE AND PROPERTY (Deuteronomy 19:1-21;...
_THAT INNOCENT BLOOD BE NOT SHED IN THY LAND, WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE FOR AN INHERITANCE, AND SO BLOOD BE UPON THEE._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
THE CITIES OF REFUGE. PUNISHMENT OF DECEIT AND FALSE WITNESS 1-13. On the Cities of Refuge see Numbers 35:9 and notes there....
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...
לֹא ־תָחֹ֥וס עֵֽינְךָ֖ עָלָ֑יו וּ בִֽעַרְתָּ֧...
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...
Thine (g) eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away [the guilt of] innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee. (g) Then whoever pardons murder, goes against the word of God....
_Innocent. Many Latin copies have "guilty blood," noxium. By putting the offender to death, Israel was expiated from the blood which had been shed unjustly. (Calmet)_...
To explain those verses upon gospel principles, we must have recourse to what was originally said concerning murder: Genesis 9:6. There should seem from hence, to be an open and daring attack upon the...
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...
THINE EYE SHALL NOT PITY HIM,.... This is not said to the avenger of blood, who is not to be supposed to have any pity or compassion on such a person, but to the elders, judges, and civil magistrates...
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...
Thine eye shall not pity him, the factor of false sentiment was to he absent entirely, BUT THOU SHALT PUT AWAY THE GUILT OF INNOCENT BLOOD FROM ISRAEL, THAT IT MAY GO WELL WITH THEE. Cf Exodus 21:12;...
REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE CITIES OF REFUGE...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
"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 19:13 eye H5869 pity H2347 (H8799) away H1197 (H8765) innocent H5355 blood H1818 Israel H3478
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...
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...
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...
1 Kings 2:31; 2 Samuel 21:1; 2 Samuel 21:14; Deuteronomy 13:8;...