{"id":10523,"date":"2022-09-24T03:36:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T08:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-1-chronicles-657\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T03:36:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T08:36:02","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-1-chronicles-657","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-1-chronicles-657\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 6:57"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, [namely], Hebron, [the city] of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs, <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 57<\/strong>. <em> the cities of Judah<\/em>, namely, <em> Hebron<\/em>, the city <em> of refuge<\/em> ] Render (with a slight correction of the Hebrew) <strong> the city of refuge, Hebron<\/strong> (cp. <span class='bible'>Jos 21:13<\/span>), Hebron being the only city of refuge here mentioned (<span class='bible'>Jos 20:7<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p><em> Libnah<\/em> ] Jos 10:29 ; <span class='bible'>2Ki 8:22<\/span>; <span class='bible'>2Ki 19:8<\/span>. It was in the S.W. of Judah.<\/p>\n<p><em> Eshtemoa<\/em> ] the modern es-Semu&lsquo;a, three and a half hours S. of Hebron.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> <B>They gave the cities, <\/B>or, <I>out of the cities<\/I>; the Hebrew <I>eth<\/I> being put for <I>meeth<\/I>, as hath been oft noted. <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><span class='bible'>[See comments on 1Ch 6:54]<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(57) <strong>They gave the cities of Judah.<\/strong>Heb. text, <em>the cities of refuge, Hebron and Libnah, and her pastures.<\/em> Of the cities mentioned only Hebron was an asylum for the manslayer. The other cities of refuge were Kedesh-Naphtali, Shechem, Bezer, Ramoth-Gilead, and Golan. (See <span class='bible'>Jos. 20:7-8<\/span>.). Here our translators have adopted the Hebrew marginal correction of the text. (Comp. <span class='bible'>Jos. 21:13<\/span>, which reads. The manslayers city of refuge, Hebron.) The same inaccuracy recurs in <span class='bible'>1Ch. 6:67<\/span>, below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>With her suburbs.<\/strong><em>With her pastures.<\/em> The phrase has been omitted after Jattir (<span class='bible'>Jos. 21:13<\/span>).<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong><em><span class='bible'>1Ch 6:57<\/span><\/em><\/strong><strong>. <\/strong><strong><em>The cities of Judah<\/em><\/strong><strong><\/strong> The author of this book, as well as the author of the book of Joshua, (chap. <span class='bible'>1Ch 21:19<\/span>.) expressly asserts, that the cities given to the Levites were <em>thirteen. <\/em>In the catalogue before us, two of the names are omitted, and only five of them written as they are in Joshua. The differences in the 4th, 5th, and 6th names are very immaterial. The transposition of the two last names shews no want of correctness in either catalogue. See Pilkington, p. 30. Houbigant translates the beginning of this verse, <em>moreover to the sons of Aaron they gave for a city of refuge, Hebron with her suburbs, and Libna, <\/em>&amp;c. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>they gave: 1Sa 22:10, 2Ch 31:15 <\/p>\n<p>the city of refuge: Num 35:13-15, Jos 20:7-9 <\/p>\n<p>Libnah: Jos 10:29, Jos 15:42, Jos 21:13, Jos 21:14 <\/p>\n<p>Jattir: 1Ch 4:17, Jos 15:48 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: Gen 23:2 &#8211; Kirjatharba 1Ch 6:65 &#8211; these cities<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>6:57 And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, [namely], Hebron, [the city] of {o} refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,<\/p>\n<p>(o) That he that had killed a man might flee to it for help till his case was tried, De 19:2.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, [namely], Hebron, [the city] of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs, 57. the cities of Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge ] Render (with a slight correction of the Hebrew) the city of refuge, Hebron &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-1-chronicles-657\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 6:57&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}