พระบัญญัติ 13:12

Thai King James Bible

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Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joshua 22:11-34, Judges 20:1, 2-17

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 17:4 - inquired Joshua 18:11 - between the children

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities,.... A report concerning them, anyone of them:

which the Lord thy God had given thee to dwell there; which he had not only given them, but had put them into the possession of, and it was become their dwelling place, or was inhabited by Israelites; otherwise they were already given unto them, but did not inherit and inhabit them, and it might be possible that there might be some city or cities, at least for a time, which, though given them, were not inhabited by them, but by the Canaanites, and such cities this law did not concern: saying; as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

City was to keep jealous watch over city, as man over man. The clause “which the Lord thy God hath given thee to dwell in” significantly reminds them that the real ownership of their dwellings rested in the Lord (compare Leviticus 25:23), and that they, the mere tenants, must not allow His property to become a center of rebellion against His just authority.