Numbers 35

When the iniquity of the Amorites was full, then God sent Israel to commence a war against them (Judges 11:21). Use 1. Lamentation, that this land is so defiled with blood (Numbers 35:33). How common is this sin in this hectoring age!

But there are words and phrases both in the Old Testament, and in the New, that are equipollent to it, and express the matter or thing intended by it: as in the Old are, [in non-Latin alphabet] and [in non-Latin alphabet]. This last word we render satisfaction (Numbers 35:32–33)…

1. They are [in non-Latin alphabet]; say we, that fly for refuge; Qui cursum corripiunt. It is the judgement of many that here is an allusion to him who had slain a man unawares under the law, whose safety and life depended on his speedy flight to one of the cities of refuge (Nu…

Concerning them it was provided in the Law, that those who were guilty of them should be put to death. God alone by virtue of his sovereignty, could dispense with the execution of this sentence of the Law, as he did in the case of David (2 Samuel 12:13), but as to the people, th…

In which sense the word Elders is taken (Genesis 50:7), as Tostatus and Rivetus expound that place. In the same manner we say of Deuteronomy 19:12, and in that case it is further to be remembered that the cities of refuge had a kind of a sacred designation and use, for the altar…

I shall next put him in mind that the Septuagint sometime turn Kahal by [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], as (Proverbs 26:26), His wickedness shall be shewed before the whole Congregation, [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩]. And it is plain that the name of the Congregation, or Church, is given…

For it is a main and direct fence to the sixth commandment. Consider another reason: the whole land (says the Lord) shall be defiled with blood, till his blood be shed that kills a man (Numbers 35:33). Example 6. The adulterer and the adulteress shall both be put to death (Levit…

The latter clause which he quotes, he who kills shall be liable to the judgment, confirms what I said a little before, that Christ charges them with turning into a political scheme the law of God, which had been given for the government of the heart. 22. But I say to you His rep…

11. That six Cities of refuge for the Man-slayer be appointed, and the ways to them be prepared (Deuteronomy 19:2). 12. That the Levites have Cities and Suburbs granted them (Numbers 35:2). 13. That the tops of the Houses have a battlement about them (Deuteronomy 22:8).

First; Pecuniary in a quadruple restitution in case of theft. Secondly, Personal in banishment, or confinement to the City of Refuge for him that had slain a man at unawares (Numbers 35:25). Thirdly, Capital punishments they inflicted four ways.

The word which we render (stain,) signifies properly to redeem a thing, either by price or by power, to redeem a thing by paying for it, or to redeem a thing by rescuing of it; hence among the Jews, he that was to redeem his deceased brother's land, and marry the widow, was call…

The guilt lay upon him, and the punishment due to it overtook him; although we do not read, that he was any otherwise guilty of it, than in not punishing those who had committed it. And those magistrates, who upon any respect whatever, suffer a murder to escape unpunished, are s…

The kings of Egypt and Babylon used these [Mecashephim] for sundry purposes, and made them of their counsel; and if they had been according to this allegation, poisoners, it is not likely they would have so fitted the humors of those two princes, Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar, much…

A third way in which the death of Christ for sinners is expressed is satisfaction — that by his death he made satisfaction to the justice of God for the sins of those for whom he died, so that they might go free. It is true that the word 'satisfaction' does not appear in the Lat…