Reviews discussions of the lists as utopia versus real and early versus late. Date of list is often tied to dating of P (Priestly writer). Land given to Levites (migrash)is for keeping livestock. Only six Levitical cities were cities of refuge, but asylum also available at cult sites wit...
There are two cases here. In the first case, if someone breaks into your home at night, and you kill him, you are not held guilty of murder. You are not deserving of capital punishment. You do not need to flee to a city of refuge to preserve your life. The understanding is that a...
35:32 Nor may you accept ransom in lieu of flight to a city of refuge, enabling one to return to live on his land before the death of the priest. This law seems to be responding to a practice or at least a notion that the punishment is not coming from the state but from the ...
Ernesti Excurs. in loc.). On the immunities referred to in Ac 16:12, SEE COLONY. (On cities of refuge in Abyssinia, see Ruppell, 2:71.) SEE CITY OF REFUGE. ⇒See also the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.III. The privilege of asylum was retained in the Christian Church, ...
In the division of the land by Joshua, the Merarites had twelve cities assigned to them, out of Reubenn Gad, and Zebulon, of which one was Ramoth-Gilead, a city of refuge, and in later times a frequent subject of war between Israel and Syria (Jos 21:7,34-40; 1Ch 6:63,79-81)...
• Cities of Refuge have nothing to do with the anger of the victim's family A willful killer was to be willfully killed. But how do you accidentally kill an accidental killer? And why would a man-slayer have to stay in the city of refuge until the high priest's death? ... contin...
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David is forced to flee the court of Saul and to find refuge in the Judean wilderness. This is a very unhospitable region, almost entirely devoid of basic resources (water, food, shelter). As a result, throughout time it has been a place of escape for revolutionaries, fugitives and ...
Golan and Beeshterah, were allotted to the Levites of the family of Gershom, the former as a "city of refuge" (Jos 21:27; 1Ch 6:71). The important district was bestowed on the half tribe of Manasseh (Jos 13:29-31), together with "half Gilead." After the Manassites had assisted...
He, however, escaped, and took refuge with Sextus Caesar, who soon appointed him governor (στρατηγός) of Caele-Syria. He then determined to march against Jerusalem, and would have done so had not his father Antipater and his family restrained him from committing any fresh ...