“ The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying, ”
Joshua 20. The Cities of Refuge. The cities of refuge (p. 113) were not appointed till after the Deuteronomic reform under Josiah in Joshua 6:21 . In early times the asylum or refuge for the mansl...
The LORD . Hebrew. Jehovah . App-4. spoke. See note on Joshua 1:1 .
1. The Lord also spoke unto Joshua, etc In the fact of its not having occurred to their own minds, to designate the cities of refuge, till they were again reminded of it, their sluggishness...
The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying,
Ver. 1-6. The Lord also spake unto Joshua, saying, &c.— The great work of distributing the lands being now finished, God orders Joshua to put the last hand to the settlement of the cities o...
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The Appointment of Cities of Refuge The allotment of the tribal inheritance is followed by the appointment of six cities of refuge previously provided and in part assigned by Moses, according to t...
CHAPTER XXVII. THE CITIES OF REFUGE. Joshua 20:1-9 . CITIES of refuge had a very prominent place assigned to them in the records of the Mosaic legislation. First, in that which all allow to be...
Cities of Refuge Joshua 20:1-9 These arrangements carried out Numbers 35:9-34 . Remember the distinction between deliberate murder and unintentional homicide. Only those who had committed the...
Having come into possession of the land, the cities of refuge were provided according to arrangements already made. Three were fixed on the west of the Jordan and three on the east. They wire so plac...
CONTENTS This chapter is but short, but the contents of it are interesting. The Lord appoints, and the children of Israel set apart, six cities for refuge. And as those cities were evidently a shado...
The Lord also spake unto Joshua ,.... Out of the tabernacle, at the door of which he with the high priest and princes were; the Lord had spoken to him before concerning dividing the land among the t...
The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying, Ver. 1. The Lord also spake unto Joshua. ] Whether in a sensible apparition, or prophetic revelation, or otherwise: for "at sundry times and in divers ma...
The Lord also spake unto Joshua Probably from the tabernacle, at the door of which he and Eleazar and the princes had been making a division of the land, as the last verse of the preceding chapter...
SIX CITIES OF REFUGE (vs.1-9) God had before directed that He would appoint six cities of refuge in Israel ( Numbers 35:9-15 ), and now that Israel is settled in the land these cities are to be d...
The Cities of Refuge. B. C. 1444. 1 The L ORD also spake unto Joshua, saying, 2 Speak...
JOSHUA CHAPTER 20 God commands six cities of refuge for those who unawares should slay a man, Joshua 20:1-4 . The right use of them, Joshua 20:5,6 . The Israelites appoint hereunto three citi...
Chapter 20 The Cities of Refuge Appointed. This chapter tells of the renewal of the command to appoint cities of refuge so that they would be available for those who committed manslaughter ‘unwitt...
THE CITIES OF REFUGE CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 20:2 . Appoint out for you cities of refuge] Heb . “Appoint,” or “Give for you the cities of refuge.” The article, which is omitted in A.V., point...
Joshua 20:2 . Cities of refuge, all of which were inhabited by the levites. See on Numbers 35 . Some heathen temples, and after them christian churches, were places of refuge. In the laws of king...
Cities of refuge The cities of refuge 1 . The first thought that naturally occurs to us when we read of these cities concerns the sanctity of human life; or, if we take the material symbol,...
EXPOSITION THE CITIES OF REFUGE .— Joshua 20:1 Cities of refuge. The original is more definite, the cities of refuge. So LXX . Whereof I spake to you. In Exodus 21:13 ; Numbe...
The Lord also spake unto Joshua, saying,
Joshua 13:1-7 ; Joshua 5:14 ; Joshua 6:2 ; Joshua 7:10
The Six Cities of Refuge Joshua 20:1-9 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Our study is about the six cities of refuge. We will open the study by considering the statements set forth in our Daily Bible Reading...