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Deuteronomy 19 — Sermon Preparation
Three more cities of refuge are to be set aside west of the Jordan; moving a neighbor's boundary marker is forbidden; false witnesses receive the punishment they intended for the accused. Below is a research summary for Deuteronomy 19, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 21
- verses
- 332 / 133
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 9
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Deuteronomy 19 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עֵד | ʻêd | H5707 | 6 | witness, testimony |
| עִיר | ʻîyr | H5892 | 7 | city, waking |
| רֵעַ | rêaʻ | H7453 | 5 | associate |
| נָתַן | nâthan | H5414 | 7 | give, put |
| דָּם | dâm | H1818 | 5 | blood, juice |
| שָׁלוֹשׁ | shâlôwsh | H7969 | 5 | three, third |
| נוּס | nûwç | H5127 | 4 | flit, vanish |
How preachers through history handled this text
9 public-domain excerpts on Deuteronomy 19, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“The laws which Moses had hitherto been repeating and urging mostly concerned the acts of religion and devotion towards God; but here he comes more fully to press the duties of righteousness between man and man. This chapter relates, I. To the sixth commandment, "Thou shalt not kill," ver. 1-13. II. To the eighth commandment, "Thou shalt not steal," ver. 14. III. To the ninth commandment, "Thou shalt not bear false witness," ver. 15, &c. The Cities of Refuge. (b. c. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 1 (Genesis to Deuteronomy), on Deuteronomy 19:1–30 (Public Domain)
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