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When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations, whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;
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A Law for Settled Life
Commentators note that this verse acts as a preface, establishing that the following laws about cities of refuge are not for the wilderness wandering but for when Israel has conquered and settled in the Promised Land. God provides laws tailored to the specific circumstances of His people's lives.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
This and the next two chapters contain enactments designed to protect human life, and to impress its sanctity on Israel.
In Deuteronomy 19:1…
19th Century
Anglican
Deuteronomy 19:1–13. THE CITIES OF REFUGE.
(See for more on this subject, Numbers 35:9 and following…
16th Century
Protestant
When the Lord thy God hath cut off the nations. Moses repeats the same precepts which we have just been considering: that, regarding murde…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
When the Lord your God has cut off the nations whose land the Lord your God gives you…
Here is the law settled between the blood of the murdered and the blood of the murderer; provision is made that the cities of refuge should be a pr…
