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Justice and Mercy Combined
Commentators explain that the six cities of refuge were chosen from among the Levitical cities for specific reasons. As these cities were specially consecrated to the Lord, they were fitting places of divine protection. Furthermore, the Levites were the administrators of God's law, making them the ideal people to oversee these complex cases of unintentional killing.
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Albert Barnes
On Numbers 35:6
18th Century
Theologian
The Levitical cities were in a special manner the Lord’s; and therefore the places of refuge, where the manslayer might remain under the protection…
Charles Ellicott
On Numbers 35:6–8
19th Century
Bishop
(6, 7, 8) And among the cities which you shall give ... — The construction of this verse is involved; or, rather, there i…
John Gill
On Numbers 35:6
17th Century
Pastor
And among the cities which you shall give unto the Levites
The number of which is not yet expressed, but is afterwar…
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Matthew Henry
On Numbers 35:1–8
17th Century
Minister
The cities of the priests and Levites were not only to accommodate them but to place them, as religious teachers, in several parts of the land. For…