Numbers 35:3

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Numbers 35:1-34

It will be remembered that the Levites were not permitted to hold, any inheritance in the land. Jehovah was the portion of their inheritance. Provision was now made for them. Forty-eight cities scattered throughout the whole land were to be the places of their abode. This scattering of the servants of the Tabernacle through the length and breadth of the land was a beneficent arrangement. Nothing is said of religious service to be rendered by them in their own cities. They were rather to go up... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 35:1-8

5). Provision of Cities To Dwell In For the Levites (Numbers 35:1-8 ). As is regular in Numbers the regulations for the Levites follow on after the regulations for the people (compare Numbers 1:1-46 with Numbers 1:47-54; Numbers 2:0 with Numbers 3:0; Numbers 6:1-21 with Numbers 8:5-22; Numbers 26:1-56 with Numbers 26:57-62). A mark of the width and depth of the land which would be possessed was now revealed in the requirement to provide forty eight cities for the Levites to dwell in. For them... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 35:1-8

Numbers 35:1-Ruth : . Appointment of Levitical Cities and Cities of Refuge.— This law must be supplementary to, and later than, the law in Numbers 18:8-Jonah :, which does not contemplate the assignment to the Levites of cities in addition to the tithes, and indeed, definitely denies to them any territorial possessions ( Numbers 18:20; cf. Deuteronomy 18:1). The cities here bestowed on the Levites are forty-eight in number, and are enumerated in Joshua 21; but the facts ( a) that some did... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Numbers 35:3

For their cattle; for pasturage for their cattle; where they might not build houses, nor plant gardens, orchards, or vineyards, no, nor sow corn, for which they were abundantly provided out of the first-fruits and tithes. And these suburbs did not belong to the Levites in common, but were distributed to them in convenient proportions, as may appear from Joshua 21:18; 1 Chronicles 6:60. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Numbers 35:1-34

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESThis chapter contains directions for the appointment of (1) cities for the Levites to dwell in; and (2) cities of refuge for the manslayer; and laws concerning wilful murder and unintentional homicide.Numbers 35:2. Suburbs. Keil and Del. “Pasturage or fields.”Numbers 35:3. For their cattle, &c. “More strictly, ‘for their large cattle, for their sheep and goats, and for all their beasts whatsoever they be.’ ”—Speaker’s Comm.Numbers 35:4-5. The directions given... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Numbers 35:1-34

Chapter 35As we get into chapter thirty-five, it describes the cities of refuge that they were to establish, verse two,Command the children of Israel, that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and you shall give unto them also suburbs of the cities round about them. And the cities that they shall have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and their goods, and for their beasts. ( Numbers 35:2-3 )So the city itself and then... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Numbers 35:1-34

Numbers 35:4-5 . A thousand cubits on the east side two thousand cubits. A line of one thousand cubits extending from the centre of the city, east, west, north, and south, would make each side of the square two thousand cubits. This would make the levites happy in gardens, and convenient retreats. God would have his ministers easy in domestic cares, that they may care for the church alone; and from the care he takes of his ministers, they may learn what care they ought to take of his flock.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Numbers 35:1-8

Numbers 35:1-8Give unto the Levites . . . cities to dwell in.The Levites’ inheritance1. Cities were allowed them with their suburbs (Numbers 35:2). They were not to have any ground for tillage; they needed not to sow or reap, or gather into barns, for their heavenly Father fed them with the tithe of the increase of other people’s labours, that they might the more closely attend the study of the law, and might have more leisure to teach the people; for they were not fed thus easily that they... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Numbers 35:3

Joshua 21:11, 2 Chronicles 11:14, Ezekiel 45:2 Reciprocal: Numbers 26:57 - these are Deuteronomy 18:6 - come Joshua 21:8 - by lot read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Numbers 35:3

And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.For the cattle — For pasturage for their cattle: where they might not build houses, nor plant gardens, orchards or vineyards, no nor sow corn, for which they were abundantly provided out of the first-fruits. And these suburbs did not belong to the Levites in common, but were distributed to them in convenient proportions. read more

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