What does Deuteronomy 19:6 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slayc him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past."
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...
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...
AVENGER. kinsman avenger. SLAY HIM. slay his soul. Hebrew. _nephesh_ (App-13), i.e. take his life....
_avenger of blood_ Heb. _go-el haddâm_(2 Samuel 14:11; Numbers 35:19-27; Joshua 20:3; Joshua 20:5; Joshua 20:9). The consuetudinary law of the vendetta is not abrogated, but persists so far as the nea...
LESSON FIFTEEN DEUTERONOMY 19:1-21; DEUTERONOMY 21:1-9 f. THE SANCTITY OF LIFE AND PROPERTY (Deuteronomy 19:1-21; Deuteronomy 21:1-9) (1) CONCERNING MURDER (Deuteronomy 19:1-13; Deuteronomy 21:1-9)...
_LEST THE AVENGER OF THE BLOOD PURSUE THE SLAYER, WHILE HIS HEART IS HOT, AND OVERTAKE HIM, BECAUSE THE WAY IS LONG, AND SLAY HIM; WHEREAS HE WAS NOT WORTHY OF DEATH, INASMUCH AS HE HATED HIM NOT IN T...
19:6 death, (a-32) Lit. 'there was for him no judgment of death.'...
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...
פֶּן ־יִרְדֹּף֩ גֹּאֵ֨ל הַ דָּ֜ם אַחֲרֵ֣י הָ רֹצֵ֗חַ כִּי ־יֵחַם֮ לְבָבֹו֒ וְ הִשִּׂיגֹ֛ו כִּֽי...
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...
_Grief. The law granted so much to the sudden passion of a relation, who met the man slayer out of the cities of refuge, as not to punish him if he gave way to the dictates of vengeance, how unjust so...
It is beautiful to remark the rich provision of gospel mercies, not only for sins of notorious perverseness, but of ignorance. Alas! who can tell how oft he offendeth! But in JESUS; whom those cities...
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...
LEST THE AVENGER OF BLOOD PURSUE THE SLAYER,.... These words are to be connected with Deuteronomy 19:3, where it is ordered to prepare the way to the cities of refuge, and to divide the land into thre...
Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he [was] not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in...
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...
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...
SLAY HIM: _ Heb._ smite him in life IN TIME PAST: _ Heb._ from yesterday, third day...
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 tha...
This verse is to be joined with DEUTERONOMY 19:3, as is evident, the 4th and 5th verses coming in as a parenthesis, which is usual in Scripture and other authors. AND SLAY HIM; which is supposed, but...
"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 19:6 avenger H1350 (H8802) blood H1818 (H8676) H5315 while H3588 anger H3824 hot H3179 (H8799) pursue H7291 (H8799) manslayer H310 H7523 (H8802) overtake H5381 (H8689) way H1870 long H7235...
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...
AVENGER Hebrew, "goel," Redemption (Kinsman type). (_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 59:20). _...
Deuteronomy 19:5 I. There are many besides the murderer of Uriah who have need to cry with him, "Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God." (1) This charge may have a fearful applicability to Christia...
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). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var...
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 N...
EXPOSITION LAWS CONCERNING CITIES OF REFUGE. LANDMARKS NOT TO BE REMOVED. LAWS CONCERNING WITNESSES. DEUTERONOMY 19:1 Moses had before this enunciated the law concerning cities of refuge for manslay...
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...
2 Samuel 14:7; Deuteronomy 21:22; Deuteronomy 19:4; Jeremiah 26:15; Jeremiah 26:16; Joshua 20:5; Numbers 35:12...