Numbers 35:19 KJV — MannaFest

Numbers 35:19

The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.

KJV

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ASV

The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death.

WEB

The avenger of blood is to put the murderer to death; when he finds him, he is to kill him.

YLT

`The redeemer of blood himself doth put the murderer to death; in his coming against him he doth put him to death.

DBT

the avenger of blood, he shall put the murderer to death; when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death.

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Old Testament

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Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.

Author: Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
Date: The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC

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Genesis 4:14
Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
2 Samuel 14:7
And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.
2 Samuel 14:11
Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the Lord thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
Numbers 35:21
Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.
Deuteronomy 19:6
Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.

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If he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, &c.--Various cases are here enumerated in which the Goel or avenger was at liberty to take the life of the murderer; and every one of them proves a premeditated purpose.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Only if the fact were plain then the next heir of the person slain might himself, in a just indignation, slay the murderer wherever he met him. Some think this must be understood to be after the lawful judgment of the magistrate, and so the Chaldee says, "He shall slay him, when he shall be condemned unto him by judgment; " but it should seem, by

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

He shall slay him - Either by himself, as the following words shew; so it is a permission, that he may do it without offense to God or danger to himself: or by the magistrate, from whom he shall demand justice: so it is a command.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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NUM 35:19JOS 20:5 NUM 35:12
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
NUM 35:19DEU 19:12 1KI 2:28-34
NUM 35:19DEU 19:12 1KI 2:5-6
NUM 35:19JOS 20:5 NUM 35:25
NUM 35:19DEU 19:6 JOS 20:5
NUM 35:19DEU 19:6 DEU 21:22
NUM 35:19DEU 19:6 2SA 14:7
NUM 35:19DEU 19:6 JER 26:15-16

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