Yosua 20:9

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Itulah kota-kota yang ditetapkan bagi semua orang Israel dan bagi pendatang-pendatang yang ada di tengah-tengah mereka, supaya setiap orang yang membunuh seseorang dengan tidak sengaja dapat melarikan diri ke sana dan jangan mati dibunuh oleh tangan penuntut tebusan darah, sebelum ia dihadapkan kepada rapat jemaah.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Itulah kota-kota yang ditetapkan bagi semua orang Israel dan bagi pendatang-pendatang yang ada di tengah-tengah mereka, supaya setiap orang yang membunuh seseorang dengan tidak sengaja dapat melarikan diri ke sana dan jangan mati dibunuh oleh tangan penuntut tebusan darah, sebelum ia dihadapkan kepada rapat jemaah.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sekalian negeri ini ditentukan bagi segala bani Israel dan bagi orang dagang yang menumpang di antaranyapun, supaya dapat lari ke sana segala orang yang telah membunuh orang tiada dengan sengajanya, asal jangan ia dibunuh oleh penuntut bela dahulu dari pada diputuskan hukumnya oleh majelis itu.

Contextual Overview

⁷ And they sanctified Kedes in Galilee in mount Nephthali, & Siche in mount Ephraim, and Kiriatharba (which is Hebron) in the mountayne of Iuda. ⁸ And on the other syde Iordane ouer against Iericho eastward, they appoynted Bezer in the wildernesse vpon the playne, out of the tribe of Ruben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Basan out of the tribe of Manasses. ⁹ These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, & for the straunger that soiourned among them, that whosoeuer kylled any person ignorautly, the same might flee thyther, & should not dye by the hand of the auenger of blood, vntil he stoode before the congregation.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the cities: Numbers 35:15

until he stood: Joshua 20:4, Joshua 20:6

Reciprocal: Numbers 35:12 - from the avenger Romans 13:4 - revenger

Cross-References

Genesis 12:18
And Pharao callyng Abram, sayde: why hast thou done this vnto me?

Genesis 20:10
And Abimelech saide vnto Abraham: what sawest thou that thou hast done this thyng?

Genesis 20:11
Abraha aunswered: For I thought [thus] surely the feare of God is not in this place, and they shal slaye me for my wyues sake.

Genesis 20:18
For the Lorde had closed vp all the wombes of the house of Abimelech, because of Abrahams wyfe.

Genesis 26:10
Abimelech said: why hast thou done this vnto vs? one of the people myght lyghtly haue lyne by thy wyfe, and so shouldest thou haue brought sinne vpon vs.

Genesis 34:7
And when the sonnes of Iacob (comming out of the fielde) hearde it, it greeued them, and they were not a little wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel, in that he had lien with Iacobs daughter, which thing ought not to be done.

Genesis 38:24
And it came to passe, after three monethes one tolde Iuda, saying: Thamar thy daughter in lawe hath played the harlot, and with playing the harlot is become great with chylde. And Iuda sayde: Bryng her foorth, that she may be brent.

Genesis 39:9
There is no man greater in the house then I, neither hath he kept any thyng from me but only thee, because thou art his wyfe: how then can I do euen this so great a wickednes, & sinne against God?

Exodus 32:21
And Moyses said vnto Aaron: What did this people vnto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sinne vpon them?

Exodus 32:35
And the Lorde plagued the people, because they made the calfe whiche Aaron made.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel,.... For the common use of them all, and not for that tribe only in which they stood:

and for the stranger that sojourneth among them; not only for the proselytes of righteousness, but for the proselytes of the gate also, as well as for the natives of Israel; Christ is a refuge for Jews and Gentiles, for all sinners that flee to him:

that whosoever killeth any person unawares might flee thither; and find shelter and safety:

and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood; getting thither before he could overtake him:

until he stood before the congregation: either before the congregation, the elders of the city, or court of judicature in the city of refuge, or before the court of his own city, from whence he fled, if summoned thither.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 20:9. For all the children of Israel, and for the stranger — As these typified the great provision which God was making for the salvation of both Jews and Gentiles, hence the stranger as well as the Israelite had the same right to the benefits of these cities of refuge. Is HE the God of the Jews only? Is HE not also the God of the Gentiles?

Until he stood before the congregation. — The judges and elders of the people, in trying civil and criminal causes, always sat; the persons who came for judgment, or who were tried, always stood; hence the expressions so frequent in Scripture, STANDING before the Lord, the judges, the elders, c.

IT is worthy of remark that the cities of refuge were given to the Levites see the following chapter. The sacrificial system alone afforded refuge; and while the suspected person was excluded from his family, c., he had the advantage of being with those whose business it was to instruct the ignorant, and comfort the disconsolate. Thus he had the means constantly at hand, by a careful use of which he might grow wiser and better secure the favour of his God, and a lot of blessedness in a better world. How wise, equal, and beneficent are all the institutions of God!