“ Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising; ”
These verses are inserted between two distinct and complete discourses for the reason to which they themselves call attention (“Then Moses severed three cities,” etc.); i. e., the fact narrated too...
Then. Emphatic, marking the end of his first address. Moses. Change to third person, not because it is now editorial, but because the first direct address is ended. See note on Deuteronomy 1:1...
God had destined, as we have before seen, (221) six cities for refuge, in case any one had killed a man, provided he could prove his innocence before the judges. As to the three which He had a...
Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising; Then Moses severed three cities - See the law relative to the cities of refuge explained, Numbers 35:11 (note), etc.
Ver. 41. Then Moses severed three cities — After the foregoing exhortation, the two conquered countries being now ready to be disposed of to the two tribes and a half, according to agreement, Mo...
Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising; Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan - (see the notes at Numbers 35:6-8 ; Joshua 20:7-8 ).
First Discourse ( Deuteronomy 1:14 to Deuteronomy 4:43 ) The long sojourn in the wilderness is now drawing to a close. The Israelites are encamped in the Plains of Moab within sight of the Promi...
THE APPOINTMENT OF THREE CITIES OF REFUGE. (41) Then Moses severed. — The word “then” appears to be a note of time. It would seem that the appointment of the three cities of refuge on the easter...
Israel's Peculiar Privileges Deuteronomy 4:32-49 Every argument that love and wisdom, the great past and the miracles of the Exodus could suggest, was brought to bear on the hearts of the chose...
On the ground of this survey Moser exhorted the people to be obedient, His appeal was based on the greatness of their God and the perfection of His law. Their whole existence as a nation centered aro...
GOD hath given commandment concerning those cities of refuge: Numbers 35:9-34 . But of such importance was the thing itself, that Moses in the very opening as it were, of his sermon, breaks off to f...
Then Moses severed three cities ,.... To be cities of refuge, according to the command of God, Numbers 35:14 this he did when he had conquered the two kingdoms of the Amorites, that God had given...
MOSES INSISTS ON OBEDIENCE (vs.1-14) Because God had already blessed Israel and intended to bless them more greatly still. Moses urges them to "listen to the statutes and judgments" he is teachin...
41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising; 42 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past...
As God had commanded him Numbers 35:6,14
The Establishment of the First Cities of Refuge ( Deuteronomy 4:41-43 ). The establishing of these cities of refuge was a deliberate act which was a declaration of Moses' certainty that they were...
CRITICAL NOTES .—From the mention of what God had done for Israel, Moses passes to the obedience of the law. They were under deep obligation to keep it, and in doing so, consisted their wisdom, grea...
Deuteronomy 4:2 . Ye shall not add unto the word. This would be to debase revelation, and treat the divine law as a defective production of man, that needed additions and retrenchments. Solon, the...
Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan, that the slayer might flee thither. The cities of refuge The cities here mentioned were called the cities of refuge. They were appointed by...
EXPOSITION Deuteronomy 4:25-5 Moses enforces the warning against idolatry, by predicting the evil that should come upon the nation through the apostasy of those who should in after times tu...
Then Moses severed, set apart, three cities on this side Jordan toward the sun-rising, in the territory of the two and one half tribes,
Joshua 20:2-9 ; Numbers 35:14 ; Numbers 35:15 ; Numbers 35:6
Parting Words Deuteronomy 4:1-49 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is, perhaps, strange to some that we speak of the fourth chapter of Deuteronomy as "Parting words," yet the whole Book of Deuteronomy cen...