The Levitical Cities

Before turning to our subject, we must first take notice of the order of instructions which God gave to Moses for the establishing of the Israelitish commonwealth in Canaan. Numbers 33:52-56 contains the directions for the purifying of the holy land from all heathen defilement. The inhabitants of the land are to be driven out, all their pictures and molten images destroyed, and their high places plucked down. Next in order are the instructions for the division of the land among the people of...