Annotations upon the remaining historicall part of the Old Testament. The second part. to wit, the books of Joshua, Judges, the two books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles, and the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther : wherein first, all such passages in the text are explained as were thought likely to be questioned by any reader of ordinary capacity : secondly, in many clauses those things are discovered which are needfull and usefull to be known ... and thirdly, many places that might at first seem to contradict one another are reconciled ... / by Arthur Jackson.

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Title: Annotations upon the remaining historicall part of the Old Testament. The second part. to wit, the books of Joshua, Judges, the two books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles, and the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther : wherein first, all such passages in the text are explained as were thought likely to be questioned by any reader of ordinary capacity : secondly, in many clauses those things are discovered which are needfull and usefull to be known ... and thirdly, many places that might at first seem to contradict one another are reconciled ... / by Arthur Jackson.
Author: Jackson, Arthur, 1593?-1666.
Publication: Cambridge :: Printed by Roger Daniel,; 1646.
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CHAP. XX.

Vers. 2. APpoint out for you cities of refuge, &c.] Concerning these cities of refuge, see the notes, Numb. 35.6. and 24, &c.

Vers. 6. And he shall dwell in that city, untill he stand before the congregati∣on for judgement, and untill the death of the high priest, &c.] That is, untill he be fetched thence to the place where the fact was done, that it may be there tryed whether it were done wittingly or unwittingly (so long he was to abide there how∣ever) or untill the death of the high Priest, if it were found that he did it unwit∣tingly; for then he was to be sent back to the city of refuge and to be kept there till the high priest dyed. Concerning the mysticall reason of the man-slayers staying in the city of refuge till the death of the high priest, see the note upon Num. 35.25. But to this some also do adde a literall reason, to wit, that hereby was implyed how hainous a fault it was to shed the bloud of a man, and how displeasing to God, in that the man that was but unwittingly defiled with the shedding of bloud must be thus shut up, lest he should happen to come into the sight of him, who did as it were represent Gods person amongst them, to wit, the high priest, nor could be suf∣fered to stirre from thence till he was dead.

Vers. 8. And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer, &c.] That is, they confirmed and ratified these to be cities of refuge without Jor∣dan, which Moses himself had formerly chosen and set apart for that use. See Deut. 4.41, 42, 43.