Audio: Thursday evening, May 1, 2008
Bob Feather May 1st, 2008
English language, small group, Bible study of Trinity International Baptist Church in Athens, Greece.
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Notes: May 1, 2008 - Numbers 35 & 36
Bob Feather May 1st, 2008
I. 48 Levitical cities to be established throughout the land, including 6 cities of refuge (35:1-8)
See also Joshua 20:7-8)
II. The law concerning murder and manslaughter (9-34)
- refuge cities are to be spaced throughout the land, 6 on each side of the Jordan River
- a revenger of blood has the right to pursue and kill the man-slayer
- the man-slayer may flee to one of the refuge cities, where he will receive a fair trial
- murderers should be put to death
- unintentional, non-premeditated man-slayers may live without fear in the city of refuge until the death of the high priest
- the refuge is forfeited if the safety of the refuge city is abandoned for any reason
- the right to take the man-slayer’s life ends with the death of the high priest
- the same law applies to citizens, resident aliens, and foreigners
III. Clarification on the land rights of women (36:1-13)
- land will not pass from tribe to tribe through marriage
- women (with land rights) must marry within their tribe
Meditation Points:
- Our refuge is in Christ our God (Psalm 46:1; Hebrews 6:18)
- He is refuge for Jews and Gentiles.
- As our High Priest, He never dies; therefore our refuge is eternal.
- Outside of Christ there is no refuge.
- In Him there is refuge for the innocent AND the guilty.
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Joshua 20:7-8
7And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.
8And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
Psalm 46:1
1God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Hebrews 6:18
18That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
