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if you shall keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shall you add three cities more for you, besides these three:
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A Conditional, Unfulfilled Promise
Commentators unanimously note that the provision for three additional cities of refuge was never historically fulfilled. This was because the condition for this blessing—Israel's complete obedience and the resulting expansion of their territory to its fullest promised extent—was never met. This serves as a sober reminder of the link between covenant faithfulness and national blessing.
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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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If you shall keep all these commandments to do them, which I command you this day A p…
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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…
