October 27, 2011 – Deuteronomy 19-20

I really find the idea of having “safe” cities where people can go if they have accidentally killed someone a very unusual idea. I understand that people will seek revenge and the Lord wanted to put a stop to that if the act was done without malice, but it seems like He could have just made the law say that. I don’t understand why you had to dedicate cities for it. And would people really want to be associated with one of those cities. After many years, the only people that would be in there are people who have taken a life. It would be a very depressing place I think, especially because they did so without malice. They all must be dealing with a lot of grief and shame and to have a whole city of them doesn’t seem very efficient.