Joshua 20:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses: ”

• Joshua 20:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Joshua 20:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  children . sons.

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• Joshua 20:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses: Cities of refuge - An institution of this kind was essentially necessary...

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• Joshua 20:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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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• Joshua 20:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses: Appoint out for you cities of refuge - (see Numbers 35:9-28 ; D...

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• Joshua 20:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Joshua 20:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Joshua 20:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• Joshua 20:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Joshua 20:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I cannot enter upon the subject of this chapter, without again and again calling upon the Reader to attend to the very precious doctrine veiled under the appointment of this city of refuge. Its impor...

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• Joshua 20:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Speak to the children of Israel, saying ,.... Whom the affair concerned the Lord spake to Joshua about, they having now the whole land divided among them: appoint out for you cities of refuge ; of...

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• Joshua 20:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses: Ver. 2. Speak unto the children of Israel. ] They had been spoken to b...

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• Joshua 20:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Joshua 20:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Joshua 20:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Cities of Refuge. B. C. 1444.       1 The L ORD also spake unto Joshua, saying,   2 Speak...

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• Joshua 20:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The possessions being now divided among you, do you reserve some of them for the use which I have commanded.

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• Joshua 20:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Joshua 20:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Joshua 20:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Joshua 20:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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,...

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• Joshua 20:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Joshua 20:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Cities of Refuge. Since the Lord had commanded, Numbers 35, that cities of refuge should be chosen in various parts of the country, this matter was next attended to.

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• Joshua 20:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 19:2-13 ; Deuteronomy 4:41-43 ; Exodus 21:13 ; Exodus 21:14 ; Hebrews 6:18 ; Hebrews 6:19 ; Numbers 35:11-14 ; Numbers 35:15-24 ; Numbers 35:6 ; Romans 8:1 ; Romans 8:33 ; Rom...

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• Joshua 20:2 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  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...

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• Joshua 20:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Appoint — The possessions being now divided among you, reserve some of them for the use which I have commanded. Cities of refuge — Designed to typify the relief which the gospel provides for poor,...

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