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Deuteronomy 19:12 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 19 · verse 12
Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.Deuteronomy 19:12 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 19:12 in context
10That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
11But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:
12Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
13Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
14Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- delivernâthanto give, used with greatest latitude of applicationH5414 →
- avengergâʼalto be the next of kinH1350 →
- elderszâqênoldH2205 →
- fetchlâqachto takeH3947 →
- blooddâmblood of man or an animalH1818 →
- cityʻîyra city in the widest senseH5892 →
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It was one of the precepts given to the sons of Noah that whoso sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed, that is, by the avenger of blood, Gen 9:6. Now here we have the law settled between blood and blood, between the blood of the murdered and the blood of the murderer, and effectual provision made, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-13