Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Deuteronomy 19:14
As a man’s life is to be held sacred, so are his means of livelihood; and in this connection a prohibition is inserted against removing a neighbor’s landmark: compare the marginal references.
As a man’s life is to be held sacred, so are his means of livelihood; and in this connection a prohibition is inserted against removing a neighbor’s landmark: compare the marginal references.
Verse Deuteronomy 19:14. _THOU SHALT NOT REMOVE THY NEIGHBOUR'S LANDMARK_] Before the extensive use of fences, landed property was marked out by _stones_ or _posts_, set up so as to ascertain the div...
DEUTERONOMY 19:14 TO DEUTERONOMY 25:19. Consists of miscellaneous laws having no apparent connexion with D's great law of the centralisation of worship. They deal with crime, war, marriage, family rel...
NOT REMOVE. Compare Deuteronomy 27:17; Hosea 5:10; Proverbs 22:28. LANDMARK. Not to be removed: but "'stumbling-blocks' to be taken out of the way"....
Against Removing Boundary Stones In the Sg. address, but as in Deuteronomy 19:4 f., Deuteronomy 19:11 and Deuteronomy 15:2, _q.v._, with _neighbour_instead of _brother_, usual in Sg. passages; and
(2) CONCERNING LANDMARKS (Deuteronomy 19:14) 14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit, in the land that Jehovah...
_THOU SHALT NOT REMOVE THY NEIGHBOUR'S LANDMARK, WHICH THEY OF OLD TIME HAVE SET IN THINE INHERITANCE, WHICH THOU SHALT INHERIT IN THE LAND THAT THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE TO POSSESS IT._ Thou shal...
THE CITIES OF REFUGE. PUNISHMENT OF DECEIT AND FALSE WITNESS 1-13. On the Cities of Refuge see Numbers 35:9 and notes there....
Cp. Deuteronomy 27:17; Job 24:2; Proverbs 22:28; Proverbs 23:10; Hos
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...
THOU SHALT NOT REMOVE THY NEIGHBOUR’S LANDMARK. — Another law manifestly appropriate here, where it appears for the first time, like the “field” in the tenth commandment (Deuteronomy 5:21). But the im...
לֹ֤א תַסִּיג֙ גְּב֣וּל רֵֽעֲךָ֔ אֲשֶׁ֥ר גָּבְל֖וּ...
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...
Landmarks, either which divided the tribes, or the inheritance of individuals. The former were strictly kept up till after the captivity. Those who removed the latter were to be scourged for theft, an...
This precept is again repeated and a curse annexed to it: Deuteronomy 27:17....
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...
A kind of theft is here condemned which is severely punished by the laws of Rome; (105) for that every one’s property may be secure, it is necessary that the land-marks set up for the division of fiel...
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 NOT REMOVE THY NEIGHBOUR'S LANDMARK,.... By which one man's land is distinguished from another; for so to do is to injure a man's property, and alienate his lands to the use of another, whi...
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. Ver. 14. Th...
_Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's land-mark_ Having provided for the preservation of the lives of innocent persons against such as might be disposed to take them away, he proceeds to give a charg...
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...
PRECEPTS REGARDING WITNESSES...
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark, the fence or the posts which indicated the boundary of his property, WHICH THEY OF OLD TIME HAVE SET IN THINE INHERITANCE, WHICH THOU SHALT IN HER IT IN...
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...
14 Direction is given to fix landmarks in Canaan. It is the will of God that every one should know his own; and that means should be used to hinder the doing and suffering of wrong. This, without doub...
THY NEIGHBOUR'S LAND-MARK; by which the several portions of land distributed to several families were distinguished one from another. See JOB 24:2 PROVERBS 22:28 HOSEA 5:10....
"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 19:14 remove H5253 (H8686) neighbors H7453 landmark H1366 old H7223 set H1379 (H8804) inheritance...
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,...
_Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark._ ANCIENT LANDMARKS REMOVED Stones indicating boundaries might easily be removed. Ditches could be secretly levelled. This would materially affect pro...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 19:1__ This section corresponds to the sixth commandment: “You shall not murder” (Deuteronomy 5:17)....
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 19:14 Moving the LANDMARK, or boundary stone, of a neighbor is essentially theft of land (see also Deuteronomy 27:17). The
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...
Deuteronomy 27:17; Hosea 5:10; Job 24:2; Proverbs 22:28; Proverbs 23