Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 35:23
Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing [him] not, and cast [it] upon him, that he die, and [was] not his enemy, neither sought his harm:
Or with any stone wherewith a man may die,…. Which is sufficient to kill a man, if thrown at him:
seeing him not; and so without intention: the Jews s from hence gather, that a blind man is to be acquitted and dismissed, and not banished and so stands in no need of a city of refuge; though others say he is to be banished, and needs it, and ought to have the privilege of it:
and cast it upon him that he die; casting, it upon another account, and with another view, but yet falling upon a man, it kills him;
and was not his enemy, neither sought him harm; it was never known that they were at variance, or that the slayer had ever by any overt act discovered any malice and enmity against the deceased, by word or deed, or ever sought to do him any injury, either to his person or property.
s Misn. Maccot, c. 2. sect. 3.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
23. Stone cast it upon him Here is a case of anacoluthon, or want of grammatical sequence, in the Hebrew. The writer evidently begins the sentence with the word “smite” (Num 35:17) in his mind, and discovering its inappropriateness substitutes let fall, too strongly rendered in the English by cast it upon. The case of casual killing is more clearly illustrated in Deu 19:4-5.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Num 35:23 Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing [him] not, and cast [it] upon him, that he die, and [was] not his enemy, neither sought his harm:
Ver. 23. Or with any stone. ] As at the funeral solemnities of Queen Anne, a scholar was slain by the fall of a letter of stone, thrust down from the battlements of the Earl of Northampton’s house, by one that was a spectator.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
was not his enemy. Hebrew “he not [being] his enemy”.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Reciprocal: Num 35:11 – unawares