Numbers 35:34

Be not cruel to your own land by making it a den of murderers.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I the Lord dwell ... - An emphatic protest against all enactment or relaxation of laws by men for their own private convenience.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Conditions Limiting the Privilege of Sanctuary. Anciently the holiness of a sanctuary extended to all who came in contact with it, so that the righ...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Defile not . Defile thou not. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Targum of Onkelos, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Septuagint, Syriac, and...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel. Commentary on the Bible, by...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. These things shall be for a st...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Levitical Cities. The Cities of Refugie 1-8. The Levitical Cities. The tribe of Levi received no part of the land of Canaan as their inherita...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE CITIES OF REFUGE Numbers 35:1-34 ; Numbers 36:1-13 1. THE INHERITANCE OF THE LEVITES The order relating to the Levitical cities may be...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Penalty for the Murderer Numbers 35:16-34 For murder the penalty was death, Numbers 35:30-31 ; but for accidental homicide there was freed...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

It will be remembered that the Levites were not permitted to hold, any inheritance in the land. Jehovah was the portion of their inheritance. Provisi...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

As one and the same subject is continued through these verses, I have not interrupted the Reader in its perusal, until he hath arrived at the close o...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

REFLECTIONS Blessed be that HOLY SPIRIT, the Teacher of my soul, from whose influence I am enabled to look beyond the Levitical dispensation, in tho...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inherit ,.... By the commission of such atrocious crimes, or suffering them to go unpunished, or by tak...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Defile not the land wherein I dwell It is often assigned as a reason why they should put away all polluted persons and things out of their camp and...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

CITIES GIVEN TO THE LEVITES (vs.1-8) The Levites had no tribal possession, but were to be scattered among the tribes so as to serve and teach the...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Cities of Refuge. B. C. 1452. 9...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Further Examples. Numbers 35:20-21 “ And if he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died, or in enmity smote him...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES This chapter contains directions for the appointment of (1) cities for the Levites to dwell in; and (2) cities of r...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 35:4 . A thousand cubits on the east side two thousand cubits. A line of one thousand cubits extending from the centre of the city, east,...
The Biblical Illustrator

Ye shall appoint you cities, to be cities of refuge for you The cities of refuge I . The position of the homicide exposed to the stroke of t...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Regulations Concerning the Cities of Refuge
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Defile not, therefore, the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell; for I, the Lord, dwell among the children of Israel, and every desecration o...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 6:13 ; 2 Corinthians 6:16 ; 2 Corinthians 6:17 ; Exodus 25:8 ; Exodus 29:45 ; Exodus 29:46 ; Hosea 9:3 ; Isaiah 57:15 ; Isaiah 8:12...

³⁴ Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.

Related Commentaries of Numbers 35:34

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 35:34