Deuteronomy 21:1-8
Ps 5:6, Ps 9:12; Prov 28:17; Isa 26:21; Acts 28:4 Deut 16:18-19; Rom 13:3-4 an Num 19:2; Jer 31:18; Matt 11:28-30; Phil 2:8 a rough valley As the word nachal signifies both a torrent, and the valley or glen through which it flows, nachal aithan may be rendered a rapid torrent. Many torrents in Judea are dry during a great part of the year; when not only their banks but their beds may be ploughed, and yield a crop. Hence there is no impropriety in specifying that such a place should be one that "is neither cared nor sown;" while the circumstance that the elders were to wash their hands over the heifer, whose head had been struck off into the stream, confirms this interpretation. The spot of ground where this sacrifice was made must be uncultivated, because it was considered as a sacrifice for the atonement of murder, and, consequently, would pollute the land. shall strike 1Pet 2:21-24, 1Pet 3:18 for them Deut 10:8, Deut 18:5; Num 6:22-27; 1Chr 23:13 by their word Deut 17:8-12; Mal 2:7 word Heb. mouth wash their hands Washing the hands was anciently a symbolical action, denoting that the person was innocent of the crime in question. Job 9:30; Ps 19:12, Ps 26:6, Ps 51:2, Ps 51:7, Ps 51:14, Ps 73:13; Jer 2:22; Matt 27:24-25; Heb 9:10 Num 5:19-28; 2Sam 16:8; Job 21:21-23, Job 21:31-34; Ps 7:3-4 lay not Num 35:33; 2Sam 3:28; 2Kgs 24:4; Ps 19:12; Jer 26:15; Ezek 23:3, Ezek 23:24-25; Jonah 1:14; Matt 23:35; 1Thess 2:15-16 unto thy people Heb. in the midst
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