Önnur Mósebók 21:14

Heilögum Biblíunni

14 En fremji nokkur þá óhæfu að drepa náunga sinn með svikum, þá skalt þú taka hann, jafnvel frá altari mínu, að hann verði líflátinn.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

presumptuously: Numbers 15:30, Numbers 15:31, Deuteronomy 1:43, Deuteronomy 17:12, Deuteronomy 17:13, Deuteronomy 18:22, Deuteronomy 19:11-13, 1 Kings 2:29-34, Psalms 19:13, Hebrews 10:26, 2 Peter 2:10

slay: Numbers 35:20, Numbers 35:21, Deuteronomy 27:24, 2 Samuel 3:27, 2 Samuel 20:9, 2 Samuel 20:10

take him: 1 Kings 1:50, 1 Kings 1:51, 1 Kings 2:28-34, 2 Kings 11:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:13 - General Numbers 35:31 - Moreover Joshua 20:2 - Appoint 1 Kings 2:31 - Do 2 Kings 11:8 - he that cometh 2 Chronicles 23:7 - whosoever 2 Chronicles 23:14 - Have her forth 2 Chronicles 25:3 - he slew Psalms 51:16 - desirest Proverbs 28:17 - General Daniel 3:14 - true 1 Timothy 1:9 - manslayers

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile,.... That comes with malice in his heart, with wrath in his countenance, in a bold, daring, hostile manner, using all the art, cunning, and contrivance he can, to take away the life of his neighbour; no asylum, no refuge, not anything to screen him from justice is to be allowed him: hence, a messenger of the sanhedrim, or an executioner, one that inflicts the forty stripes, save one, or a physician, or one that chastises his son or scholar, under whose hands persons may die, do not come under this law; for though what they do they may do wilfully, yet not with guile, as Jarchi and others observe, not with an ill design, but for good:

thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die: that being the place which in early times criminals had recourse unto, Joab and others, as well as in later times, to secure them from vengeance; but a man guilty of wilful murder was not to be protected in this way; and the Targum of Jonathan is,

"though he is a priest, (the Jerusalem Targum has it, an high priest,) and ministers at mine altar, thou shalt take him from thence, and slay him with the sword,''

so Jarchi; but the law refers not to a person ministering in his office at the altar of the Lord, but to one that should flee there for safety, which yet he should not have.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There was no place of safety for the guilty murderer, not even the altar of Yahweh. Thus all superstitious notions connected with the right of sanctuary were excluded. Adonijah and Joab 1 Kings 1:50; 1 Kings 2:28 appear to have vainly trusted that the common feeling would protect them, if they took hold of the horns of the altar on which atonement with blood was made Leviticus 4:7. But for one who killed a man “at unawares,” that is, without intending to do it, the law afterward appointed places of refuge, Numbers 35:6-34; Deuteronomy 4:41-43; Deuteronomy 19:2-10; Joshua 20:2-9. It is very probable that there was some provision answering to the cities of refuge, that may have been based upon old usage, in the camp in the Wilderness.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 21:14. Thou shalt take him from mine altar — Before the cities of refuge were assigned, the altar of God was the common asylum.