Numbers 35:11
Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
Then ye shall appoint your cities to be cities of refuge for you,.... And, according to the Jewish writers (i), these were neither to be made large nor little, but middling; and they appointed them…
Methodist theologian, 1762–1832
Adam Clarke
Ye shall appoint - cities of refuge - The cities of refuge among the Israelites were widely different from the asyla among the Greeks and Romans, as also from the privileged altars among the Roman…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
ye shall appoint Perhaps better ye shall select. The verb in this sense is not found elsewhere in the O.T.
cities of refuge Perhaps cities of reception, a term which occurs only in this chapter, and…
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