Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inherit,.... By the commission of such atrocious crimes, or suffering them to go unpunished, or by taking a compensation for the life of the guilty person:wherein I dwell; which is added to strengthen the exhortation, and as giving a reason why care should be taken not to pollute it, because the Holy God dwells there; as he did in the tabernacle erected for him, and in such a peculiar manner as he did not in other lands:for I the Lord dwell among the children of Israel; he now dwelt among them as their God, and their King; his tent or tabernacle being pitched in the midst of the camps of Israel; and so he would continue to dwell among them when they were come to the land of Canaan, so long as they observed his laws, statutes, and ordinances; and therefore it behoved them to be careful that they did not pollute themselves and their land, and cause him to depart from them.
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Numbers 35:34
Numbers 35:34
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I dwell: Psalms 135:21; Isaiah 57:15; Hosea 9:3; 2 Corinthians 6:16-17; Revelation 21:3, Revelation 21:27
dwell among: Numbers 5:3; Exodus 25:8, Exodus 29:45-46; 1 Kings…