Joshua 20:2-9; Numbers 35:14; Numbers 35:15; Numbers 35:6
These verses are inserted between two distinct and complete discourses for the reason to which they themselves call attention (“Then Moses severed...
Then. Emphatic, marking the end of his first address. Moses. Change to third person, not because it is now editorial, but because the first dire...
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...
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 ref...
Ver. 41. Then Moses severed three cities — After the foregoing exhortation, the two conquered countries being now ready to be disposed of to the...
Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising; Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan - (see the note...
First Discourse ( Deuteronomy 1:14 to Deuteronomy 4:43 ) The long sojourn in the wilderness is now drawing to a close. The Israelites are encamp...
Exhortations To Obedience This chapter contains the practical part of the discourse. Having briefly rehearsed the experiences of the Israelites in...
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 appoi...
Israel's Peculiar Privileges Deuteronomy 4:32-49 Every argument that love and wisdom, the great past and the miracles of the Exodus could sugge...
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 l...
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...
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...
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 "l...
41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising; 42 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his n...
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 wa...
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...
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, t...
Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan, that the slayer might flee thither. The cities of refuge The cities here mentioned were ca...
EXPOSITION Deuteronomy 4:25-5 Moses enforces the warning against idolatry, by predicting the evil that should come upon the nation through...
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,
Conclusion of the First Address
Parting Words Deuteronomy 4:1-49 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is, perhaps, strange to some that we speak of the fourth chapter of Deuteronomy as "Par...
41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;