TSK - NUMBERS 35

  1  Eight and forty cities for the Levites, with their suburbs,
    and measure thereof.
 6  Six of them are to be cities of refuge.
 9  The laws of murder and manslaughter.
31  No satisfaction for murder.


VERSE 1
   * Nu 22:1; 26:63; 31:12; 33:50; 36:13

VERSE 2
    * Le 25:32,33 Jos 14:3,4; 21:2-42 Eze 45:1-8; 48:8,22 1Co 9:10-14

VERSE 3
    * Jos 21:11 2Ch 11:14 Eze 45:2


VERSE 4 
 - thousand cubits.
  The Septuagint reads [                                       ]
  "two thousand cubits," as in the following verse; but this
  reading is not acknowledged by any other ancient version,
  except the Coptic, nor by any of the MSS. collated by
  Kennicott and De Rossi.  Various modes have been proposed for
  reconciling the accounts in these two verses, which appear in
  general to require full as much explanation as the text
  itself.  The explanation of Maimonides is the only one that is
  intelligible, and appears perfectly satisfactory.  "The
  suburbs," says he, "of the cities are expressed in the law to
  be 3,000 cubits on every side, from the wall of the city and
  outwards.  The first 1,000 cubits are the suburbs; and the
  2,000, which they measured without the suburbs, were for
  fields and vineyards."  The whole therefore, of the city,
  suburbs, fields, and vineyards, may be represented by the
  following diagram:--

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                ³      Fields and vineyards.    ³
                ³                               ³
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                ³     ³                    ³    ³
                ³     ³      Suburbs.      ³    ³
                ³     ³                    ³    ³
                ³     ³    ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿     ³    ³
                ³     ³    ³  City.  ³     ³    ³
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                ³     ³                    ³    ³
                ³     ³   1,000 Cubits     ³    ³
                ³     ³                    ³    ³
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                ³                               ³
                ³          2,000 Cubits         ³
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VERSE 5
   * :4


VERSE 6 
 - six cities for refuge.
   * :13,14 De 4:41-43 Jos 20:2-9; 21:3,13,21,27,32,36,38 Ps 9:9
   * Ps 62:7,8; 142:4,5 Isa 4:6 Mt 11:28 Heb 6:18
- to them ye shall add.  Heb. above them ye shall give.

VERSE 7
    * Jos 21:3-42 1Ch 6:54-81


VERSE 8 
 - possession.
   * Ge 49:7 Ex 32:28,29 De 33:8-11 Jos 21:3
- from them.
   * Nu 26:54; 33:54 Ex 16:18 2Co 8:13,14
- he inheriteth.  Heb. they inherit.

VERSE 9
    * :9

VERSE 10
    * Nu 34:2 Le 14:34; 25:2 De 12:9; 19:1,2


VERSE 11 
 - ye shall appoint.
  As the {goel,} or kinsman, had a right to avenge the death of
  his relation, by slaying the murderer wherever he found him,
  the appointment of these cities was a humane institution for
  the protection of the involuntary homicide; for they were
  designed only for the protection of such.

- See on ver.
   * :6 Jos 20:2
- unawares.  Heb. by error.
   * :22,23 Ex 21:13 De 4:42; 19:4,5


VERSE 12 
 - from the avenger.
   * :19,25-27 De 19:6 Jos 20:3-6,9 2Sa 14:7
- until he stand.
   * :24 De 19:11,12 Jos 20:4-6


VERSE 13 
 - six cities.
   * :6


VERSE 14 
 - three cities.
   * De 4:41-43; 19:8-10 Jos 20:7-9

VERSE 15
    * Nu 15:16 Ex 12:49 Le 24:22 Ro 3:29 Ga 3:28


VERSE 16 
 - if he smite.
   * :22-24 De 19:11-13
- the.
   * :30-33 Ge 9:5,6 Ex 21:12-14 Le 24:17


VERSE 17 
 - throwing a stone.  Heb. a stone of the hand.
   * Ex 21:18

VERSE 18
    * :18

VERSE 19
    * :12,21,24,27 De 19:6,12 Jos 20:3,5


VERSE 20 
 - if he thrust.
   * Ge 4:5,8 2Sa 3:27; 13:22,28,29; 20:10 1Ki 2:5,6,31-33 Pr 26:24
   * Pr 28:17 Lu 4:29
- by laying.
   * Ex 21:14 De 19:11 1Sa 18:10,11,25; 19:9-12; 20:1; 23:7-9; 24:11
   * Ps 10:7-10; 11:2; 35:7,8; 57:4-6 Pr 1:18,19 Mr 6:19,24-26
   * Ac 20:3; 23:21

VERSE 21
    * :21

VERSE 22
    * :11 Ex 21:13 De 19:5 Jos 20:3,5

VERSE 23


VERSE 24 
 - See on ver.
   * :12 Jos 20:6


VERSE 25 
 - abide in it.
   * :28 Jos 20:6 Ro 3:24-26 Eph 2:16-18 Heb 4:14-16; 7:25-28
   * Heb 9:12-15; 10:19-22
- anointed.
   * Ex 29:7 Le 4:3; 8:12; 21:10


VERSE 26
   After the manslayer had been received into the city of refuge,
  the avenger of blood could only act as prosecutor; and the
  civil officers, in the presence of the people, were appointed to
  decide the cause according to the rules here laid down.
  Probably the accused person was tried at or near the place
  where the deceased had been slain, and where evidence could
  most easily be brought:  and in case he was acquitted by the
  decision of the judges, and with the approval of the
  people, he was conveyed back to the city of refuge, where he
  was protected as a kind of prisoner at large, till the death
  of the high priest; when the public loss, and the grief
  occasioned by it, might be supposed to swallow up all personal
  regrets and resentments:  and then he was permitted to return
  to his house and estate.  But if, in the mean while, he
  ventured to leave the city, and the avenger met him and slew
  him, he was supposed to merit his doom by thus neglecting the
  appointment of God for his preservation, and the avenger must
  not be punished.  This shews that in other cases, if the
  avenger slew an innocent man on surmise, he was liable to the
  punishment of a murderer; but if, by the testimony of two
  credible witnesses, the man who had fled to the city of refuge
  was adjudged guilty, he must without fail be put to death.

   * :26


VERSE 27 
 - he shall not be guilty of blood.  Heb. no blood shall be to
  him
   * Ex 22:2 De 19:6,10


VERSE 28 
 - he should.
   * Joh 15:4-6 Ac 11:23; 27:31 Heb 3:14; 6:4-8; 10:26-30,39
- after the death.
   * Heb 9:11,12,15-17


VERSE 29 
 - See on ch.
   * Nu 27:1,11

VERSE 30
    * De 17:6,7; 19:15 Mt 18:16 Joh 8:17,18 2Co 13:1 1Ti 5:19
   * Heb 10:28 Re 11:3


VERSE 31 
 - Moreover.
   * Ge 9:5,6 Ex 21:14 De 19:11-13 2Sa 12:13 1Ki 2:28-34 Ps 51:14
- guilty of death.  Heb. faulty to die.

VERSE 32
    * Ac 4:12 Ga 2:21; 3:10-13,22 Re 5:9
  The region east of Jordan was nearly as long as that on the
  west, and therefore three cities were appointed in each
  division.  One or other of these cities would be within half a
  day's journey of every part of the land; and as it would
  rarely happen that the avenger of blood would be on the spot,
  and none had a right to assault or detain the manslayer, at
  least if no malicious intention was manifest, the unhappy men
  would, therefore, get the start of their adversaries, and very
  few of them be overtaken before they gained the place of
  refuge.  But then they must forsake their families,
  employments, most important interests, and dearest comforts;
  and they must neither loiter nor yield to weariness, nor
  regard difficulties, nor slacken their pace, till they had got
  safe within the walls of the city.  The Jewish writers inform
  us, that to afford every facility to those who thus fled for
  their life, the road to these cities was always preserved in
  good repair; and way-posts, upon which was inscribed REFUGE
  were placed wherever needful, that they might not so much as
  hesitate for a moment.


VERSE 33 
 - it defileth.
   * Le 18:25 De 21:1-8,23 2Ki 23:26; 24:4 Ps 106:28 Isa 26:21
   * Eze 22:24-27 Ho 4:2,3 Mic 4:11 Mt 23:31-35 Lu 11:50,51
- the land cannot be cleansed.  Heb. there can be no expiation
  for the land.


VERSE 34 
 - Defile not.
   * Nu 5:3 Le 20:24-26
- I dwell.
   * Ps 135:21 Isa 57:15 Ho 9:3 2Co 6:16,17 Re 21:3,27
- dwell among.
   * Nu 5:3 Ex 25:8; 29:45,46 1Ki 6:13 Ps 132:14 Isa 8:12



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