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Numbers 35:22

in Numbers 35

But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him anything without lying in wait,

KJV

But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,

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This verse in Numbers 35

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
But if he thrust him suddenly, without enmity,.... Push him from a precipice, before he is aware, without any malicious design against his life, but merely through accident: or have cast upon him anything; from the top of a house, or from a building he is pulling down, or pushes a bowing wall upon him, not knowing that he is passing by it: and without lying of wait: or having contrived to do it, just as he goes along, or in any other similar way.

This site's exposition

pushes a person suddenly, without hostility

on Numbers 35:22-24

The accident is drawn carefully, a push "suddenly, without hostility", a stone dropped "without looking", by one who "was not an enemy". Verse 24 has the congregation "judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood", so the bereaved family does not weigh its own case. John Gill takes the congregation as a court hearing both sides, and in Joshua 20:4 the fugitive states "his case before its elders".

The words behind it

12 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.

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

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Numbers 35:11designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.4 worksExodus 21:13If, 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.4 worksJoshua 20:5Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the manslayer into his hand, because that man killed his neighbor accidentally without prior malice.2 worksJoshua 20:3so that anyone who kills another unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.2 worksDeuteronomy 19:5If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.2 works

The walk

8 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

    Numbers 35:11

    designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.

    it leads to

    • 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.

    • Numbers 35:6

      Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities.

    • Joshua 20:2

      “Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,

  • 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.

    it 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.

    • 1 Samuel 24:10

      Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the LORD delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I spared you and said, ‘I…

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 19:5

    If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor,…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 35:25

      The assembly is to protect the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he must live…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Joshua 20:5

    Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the manslayer into his hand, because that man killed his neighbor accidentally without prior malice.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 35:12

      You are to have these cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.

Where this verse is studied

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About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.

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