2 Samuel 16:8; Job 21:21-23; Job 21:31-34; Numbers 5:19-28; Psalms 7:3; Psalms 7:4
See W. R. Smith, Kinship 1 p. 263 (= 64f. in Kinship 2) for a similar law among the ancient Arabs. The ground of this law may be the belief that,...
he. Compare Genesis 49:3 . strength. Hebrew. 'avon. Homonym = strength, here and Genesis 49:3 and Job 31:25 (Authorized Version "wealth")...
DISCOURSE: 213 THE METHOD OF EXPIATING AN UNKNOWN MURDER Deuteronomy 21:6-8 . And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man,...
And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it .
Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain: No JFB comme...
Expiation of Undetected Homicide. Marriage of Captive Women. Punishment of a Rebellious Son The last sub-section of the Second Discourse begins he...
The elders, in the name of all the citizens, take an oath of purgation. The publicity and solemnity of the ceremony must have had a powerful effect u...
XXI. Deuteronomy 21:1-9 . UNDETECTED HOMICIDES. (1) If one be found slain — It is remarkable that in our own time the most effectual remed...
THE ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF ISRAELITE LIFE IT has often and justly been said that the life of Israel is so entirely founded on the grace and favor of...
Sundry laws affecting the life of the people in the land after the conquest were now uttered. The sin of murder was once again dealt with. This time...
Was not this washing over the head of the beast; in allusion to the same thing as the high priest on the day of atonement? And in the address to GOD,...
And they shall answer and say ,.... The elders of the city, at the time of the washing of their hands: our hands have not shed this blood ; have b...
And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen [it]. Ver. 7. And they shall answer. ] To the priest...
They shall answer To the priests who shall examine them. This blood This about which the present inquiry is made; or this which is here present:...
UNSOLVED MURDER (vs.1-9) If one was killed and his body found removed from any city or town, the murderer being unknown, then elders and judges o...
Undetected Murder. B. C. 1451. 1 If o...
They shall answer, to wit, to the priests who shall examine them and determine this controversy. This blood; this about which the present inquiry...
Regulation Concerning Violent Death Where The Murderer Is Not Known ( Deuteronomy 21:1-9 ). While for convenience we are splitting up Moses' spee...
CRITICAL NOTES .—The reason for grouping these five laws, apparently so different from one another, as well as for attaching them to the previous re...
Deuteronomy 21:4 . A rough valley. The guilt being transferred to the heifer, the slaying it in a cultivated field would have polluted the ground....
If one be found slain. God’s value of individual life “This narrative,” says one, “sets forth the preciousness of human life in the sight of Go...
EXPOSITION EXPIATION OF UNCERTAIN MURDER . TREATMENT OF A CAPTIVE TAKEN TO WIFE . RIGHTS OF THE FIRSTBORN . A REBELLIO...
The Case of an Unknown Murder
and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it, they and their city were neither guilty of the crim...
They shall answer — To the priests who shall examine them. This blood — This about which the present enquiry is made: or this which is here present...
7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.