John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 35:22
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. read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 35:9-34
We have here the orders given concerning the cities of refuge, fitly annexed to what goes before, because they were all Levites? cities. In this part of the constitution there is a great deal both of good law and pure gospel. I. Here is a great deal of good law, in the case of murder and manslaughter, a case of which the laws of all nations have taken particular cognizance. It is here enacted and provided, consonant to natural equity, 1. That wilful murder should be punished with death, and in... read more