Deuteronomy 19:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.

Deuteronomy 19:7 —

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Avenger of Blood Commandments Crime Fratricide Homicide Killing Life Malice

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-13)

It was one of the precepts given to the sons of Noah that whoso sheddeth man’s blood by man shall his blood be shed, that is, by the avenger of blood, Gen. 9:6. Now here we have the law settled between blood and blood, between the blood of the murdered and the blood of the murderer, and effectual provision made, I. That the cities of refuge should be a protection to him that slew another casually,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

6-7. Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot--This verse is a continuation of De 19:3 (for De 19:4, 5, which are explanatory, are in a parenthetical form), and the meaning is that if the kinsman of a person inadvertently killed should, under the impulse of sudden excitement and without inquiring into the circumstances, inflict summary vengeance on the homicide, howe…