Deuteronomy 19:8

8 "If the LORD your God ¹enlarges your territory, just as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which He promised to give your fathers -

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Deuteronomy 19:8 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 19:8

And if the Lord thy God enlarge thy coast
Extend it further than it was upon their first settlement, even carry it as far as the river Euphrates, as in the times of Solomon, ( 1 Kings 4:21 1 Kings 4:24 ) . Jarchi interprets it of such an enlargement as to give them the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites and Kadmonites:

(as he hath sworn unto thy fathers), and give thee all the land which
he promised to give unto thy, fathers:
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; see ( Genesis 15:19 ) ( Genesis 26:3 Genesis 26:4 ) ( Genesis 28:13 Genesis 28:14 ) .

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Deuteronomy 19:8 In-Context

6 otherwise the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayer in the heat of his anger, and overtake him, because the way is long, and take his life, though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated him previously.

7 "Therefore , I command you, saying, 'You shall set aside three cities for yourself.'

8 "If the LORD your God enlarges your territory, just as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which He promised to give your fathers -

9 if you carefully observe all this commandment which I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in His ways always -then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three.

10 "So innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and bloodguiltiness be on you.

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1. Genesis 15:18

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[a]. Lit "spoke"

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