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Deuteronomy 19:9-19

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9 provided you are careful to keep all this commandment, which I command you today, by loving the LORD your God and by walking ever in his ways--1then you shall add three other cities to these three,
10 lest innocent blood be shed in your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you.
11 "But if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him 2and strikes him fatally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities,
12 then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.
13 3Your eye shall not pity him, 4but you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood[a] from Israel, so that it may be well with you.

Property Boundaries

14 5"You shall not move your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set, in the inheritance that you will hold in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

Laws Concerning Witnesses

15 "A single witness shall not suffice against a person for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed. 6Only on the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall a charge be established.
16 If 7a malicious witness arises to accuse a person of wrongdoing,
17 then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the LORD, 8before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days.
18 The judges shall 9inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely,
19 10then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil[b] from your midst.
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Deuteronomy 19:9-19 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 19

This chapter contains an order to separate three cities of refuge in the land of Canaan, for such that killed a man unawares to flee to, of which those who were guilty of murder purposely were to have no benefit, De 19:1-13, a law is given against removing landmarks, De 19:14, and others concerning witnesses, that they should be more than one; be two, or three, De 19:15, and that a false witness, on conviction, should be punished, De 19:16-21.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 10

  • 1. ver. 2; [Joshua 20:7]
  • 2. Deuteronomy 27:24; Exodus 21:12, 14; See Numbers 35:16-21
  • 3. See Deuteronomy 7:16
  • 4. Deuteronomy 21:9; Numbers 35:33; [1 Kings 2:31]
  • 5. Deuteronomy 27:17; Job 24:2; Proverbs 22:28; Proverbs 23:10; Hosea 5:10
  • 6. Cited Matthew 18:16; 2 Corinthians 13:1; See Numbers 35:30
  • 7. [Exodus 23:1; Psalms 35:11]
  • 8. Deuteronomy 17:8, 9; [Deuteronomy 21:5]
  • 9. Deuteronomy 13:14; Deuteronomy 17:4
  • 10. Proverbs 19:5, 9; [Daniel 6:24]

Footnotes 2

The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.