Numbers 35:2
35:2 Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the {a}
     Levites of the inheritance of their possession {b} cities
     to dwell in; and ye shall give [also] unto the Levites
     suburbs for the cities round about them.

     (a) Because they had no inheritance assigned them in the
         land of Canaan.
     (b) God would have them scattered through all the land,
         because the people might be preserved by them in the
         obedience of God and his Law.

Numbers 35:5
35:5 And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side
     {c} two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand
     cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on
     the north side two thousand cubits; and the city [shall be]
     in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the
     cities.

     (c) So that in all were three thousand, and in the compass
         of these two thousand, they might plant and sow.

Numbers 35:12
35:12 And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the {d}
      avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before
      the congregation in judgment.

      (d) Meaning, from the next of the kindred, who ought to
          pursue the cause.

Numbers 35:14
35:14 Ye shall give three cities {e} on this side Jordan, and
      three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, [which]
      shall be cities of refuge.

      (e) Among the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of
          Manasseh, Deuteronomy 4:41.

Numbers 35:16
35:16 And if he {f} smite him with an instrument of iron, so
      that he die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely
      be put to death.

      (f) Wittingly, and willingly.

Numbers 35:17
35:17 And if he smite him with throwing a {g} stone, wherewith
      he may die, and he die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer
      shall surely be put to death.

      (g) That is, with a big and dangerous stone: in Hebrew,
          with a stone of his hand.

Numbers 35:24
35:24 Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and
      the {h} revenger of blood according to these judgments:

      (h) That is, his next kinsman.

Numbers 35:25
35:25 And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the
      hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall
      restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was
      fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the {i}
      high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.

      (i) Under this figure is declared, that our sins could not
          be remitted, but by the death of the high Priest Jesus
          Christ.

Numbers 35:27
35:27 And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of
      the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the
      {k} slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:

      (k) By the sentence of the judge.

Numbers 35:29
35:29 So these [things] shall be for a {l} statute of judgment
      unto you throughout your generations in all your
      dwellings.

      (l) A law to judge murders done either on purpose, or
          accidentally.

Numbers 35:31
35:31 Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a
      murderer, which [is] {m} guilty of death: but he shall be
      surely put to death.

      (m) Who purposely committed murder.

Numbers 35:33
35:33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye [are]: for
      blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be {n}
      cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the
      blood of him that shed it.

      (n) So God is mindful of the blood wrongfully shed, that
          he makes his dumb creatures demand vengeance of it.