Deuteronomy 19:2 BSB

Deuteronomy 19:2

then you are to set apart for yourselves three cities within the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

thou shalt set apart three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it.

KJV

Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.

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Commentary

1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land--Goelism, or the duty of the nearest kinsmen to avenge the death of a slaughtered relative, being the customary law of that age (as it still is among the Arabs and other people of the East), Moses incorporated it in an improved form with his legislative code.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
שָׁל֥וֹשׁ	sha.Lo.osh	three	H7969 →
עָרִ֖ים	'a.Rim	cities	H5892 →
תַּבְדִּ֣יל	tav.Dil	you will set apart	H914 →
לָ֑ךְ	Lakh	for <the> yourself
בְּת֣וֹךְ	be.Tokh	in [the] midst of	H8432 →
אַרְצְךָ֔	'ar.tze.Kha	land your	H776 →
אֲשֶׁר֙	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
יְהוָ֣ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ	'e.lo.Hei.kha	God your	H430 →
נֹתֵ֥ן	no.Ten	[is] about to give	H5414 →
לְךָ֖	le.Kha	to <the> you
לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃	le.rish.Tah	to take possession of it	H3423 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Hebrews 6:18
Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
leads to
- Numbers 23:19
  God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
- Titus 1:2
  in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
- 1 Samuel 15:29
  Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.”
- 2 Timothy 2:13
  if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.
- Romans 3:4
  Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
Through
Exodus 21:13
If, however, he did not lie in wait, but God allowed it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.
leads to
- Joshua 20:2–9
  “Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,
- 1 Samuel 24:18
  And you have shown this day how well you have dealt with me; for when the LORD delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me.
- Deuteronomy 19:1–13
  When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,