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Deuteronomy 19:9

in Deuteronomy 19

and if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you today, loving the LORD your God and walking in His ways at all times, then you are to add three more cities to these three.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

if thou shalt keep all this commandment to do it, which I command thee this day, to love Jehovah thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, besides these three:

KJV

If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the Lord thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:

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This verse in Deuteronomy 19

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Shalt thou add three cities more - This was afterwards found necessary, and accordingly six cities were appointed, three on either side Jordan. See Jos 21:1-3, etc. In imitation of these cities of refuge the heathens had their asyla, and the Catholics their privileged altars. See Exo 21:13 (note), Exo 21:14 (note), and Num 35:11 (note), etc.

This site's exposition

if the Lord thy God enlarge thy coast

on Deuteronomy 19:8-13

Three cities become six if the border grows, and verse 9 makes the enlargement turn on loving the Lord thy God and walking ever in his ways, one of the six places this book commands love. Joshua 20:7-9 names all six cities, three west of Jordan and the three Moses had already set east of it at 4:41-43. Verses 11 to 13 turn the shelter around, since a man who lay in wait is fetched out by the elders of his own city and delivered to the avenger, and thine eye shall not pity him. Refuge turns on intent, and 1 Kings 2:28-34 has Solomon apply the same distinction when Joab takes hold of the horns of the altar.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Here is, (1.) An intimation of God's gracious intention to enlarge their coast, as he had promised to their fathers, if they did not by their disobedience forfeit the promise, the condition of which is here carefully repeated, that, if it were not performed, the reproach might lie upon them, and not on God.

The words behind it

27 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • כִּֽי־if

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • תִשְׁמֹר֩you will keep

    tishmorH8104 →468 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַמִּצְוָ֨הthe commandment

    hamitzvahH4687 →181 times

  • הַזֹּ֜את<the> this

    hazotH2063 →603 times

  • לַעֲשֹׂתָ֗הּto do it

    laasotahH6213 →2628 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֨רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • אָנֹכִ֣יI

    ʾanokhiH595 →359 times

  • מְצַוְּךָ֮[am] commanding you

    metzavekhaH6680 →494 times

  • הַיּוֹם֒this day

    haiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • לְאַהֲבָ֞הto love

    leahavahH157 →211 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • יְהוָ֧הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהֶ֛יךָGod your

    ʾeloheikhaH430 →2601 times

  • וְלָלֶ֥כֶתand to walk

    velalekhetH1980 →1546 times

  • בִּדְרָכָ֖יוin ways his

    bidrakhavH1870 →707 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַיָּמִ֑יםthe days

    haiyamimH3117 →2304 times

  • וְיָסַפְתָּ֨and you will add

    veyasaftaH3254 →212 times

  • לְךָ֥for <the> yourself

    lekha

  • עוֹד֙again

    ʾodH5750 →490 times

  • שָׁלֹ֣שׁthree

    shaloshH7969 →432 times

  • עָרִ֔יםcities

    ʾarimH5892 →1090 times

  • עַ֖לto

    ʾalH5921 →5755 times

  • הַשָּׁלֹ֥שׁthe three [cities]

    hashaloshH7969 →432 times

  • הָאֵֽלֶּה׃<the> these

    haelehH428 →746 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 12:32

    See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 4:2

      You must not add to or subtract from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you.

    • Revelation 22:18–19

      I testify to everyone who hears the words of prophecy in this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book.

    • Joshua 1:7

      Above all, be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe all the law that My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that…

    • Proverbs 30:6

      Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you and prove you a liar.

    • Deuteronomy 13:18

      because you obey the LORD your God, keeping all His commandments I am giving you today and doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 19 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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