“ ‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,
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“ ‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,
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But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,
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But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him any thing without lying in wait,
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Passages linked to Numbers 35:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 21:13 but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.
- Numbers 35:11 then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
- Deuteronomy 19:5 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood and his hand swings the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and hits his neighbor so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live.
- Joshua 20:3 that the man slayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.
- Joshua 20:5 If the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver up the man slayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him before.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, suddenly.
Or, suddenly.
Hebrew, instrument.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Suddenly; through sudden passion or provocation. Or, by chance,…
Suddenly; through sudden passion or provocation. Or, by chance, or unawares.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But if he thrust him suddenly, without enmity,.... Push…
But if he thrust him suddenly, without enmity,.... Push him from a precipice, before he is aware, without any malicious design against his life, but merely through accident:
or have cast upon him anything; from the top of a house, or from a building he is pulling down, or pushes a bowing wall upon him, not knowing that he is passing by it:
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and without lying of wait: or having contrived to do it, just as he goes along, or in any other similar way.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or…
But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait, &c.--Under the excitement of a sudden provocation, or violent passion, an injury might be inflicted issuing in death; and for a person who had thus undesignedly committed slaughter, the Levitical cities offered the benefit of full protection. Once having reached the nearest, for one or other of them was within a day's journey of all parts of the land, he was secure. But he had to "abide in it." His confinement within its walls was a wise and salutary rule, designed to show the sanctity of human blood in God's sight, as well as to protect the manslayer himself, whose presence and intercourse in society might have provoked the passions of the deceased's relatives. But the period of his release from this confinement was not until the death of the high priest. That was a season of public affliction, when private sorrows were sunk or overlooked under a sense of the national calamity, and when the death of so eminent a servant of God naturally led all to serious consideration about their own mortality. The moment, however, that the refugee broke through the restraints of his confinement and ventured beyond the precincts of the asylum, he forfeited the privilege, and, if he was discovered by his pursuer, he might be slain with impunity.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain THE UNINTENTIONAL MANSLAYER, Num_35:22-28.
THE UNINTENTIONAL MANSLAYER, Num_35:22-28.
Human life is so sacred that it must be hedged about by all possible safeguards. Hence, when one kills another by casualty, perfectly innocent of any evil intention, he must undergo the privation of his liberty by a lifelong imprisonment in the city of refuge. Such a liability tended to the utmost caution in the intercourse of man with man.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (22, 23) But if he thrust him suddenly .…
(22, 23) But if he thrust him suddenly . . . —See Deu_19:4-5, where the meaning of the law is illustrated.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Without enmity...without laying of wait. These expressions seem intended…
Without enmity...without laying of wait. These expressions seem intended to limit mercy to cases of pure accident, such as that quoted in Deu_19:5. Neither provocation nor any other "extenuating circumstances" are taken into account, nor what we now speak of as absence of premeditation. The want of these finer distinctions, as well as the short and simple list of farm injuries given, show the rudeness of the age for which these regulations were made.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 without premeditated hate
without premeditated hate
"without planning it out of hate ahead of time"
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without lying in wait
Someone intentionally seeking a way to harm another person is spoken of as if someone were hiding in order to ambush that other person. AT: "without intentionally having tried to harm the victim" (See: Metaphor)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 35:22-23 Here are some instances in which a victim…
35:22-23 Here are some instances in which a victim died but was not murdered through an intentional act of violence. The cities of refuge were created as places of safety for people who were responsible for such accidental deaths.
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