Deuteronomy 21-25, Chuck Smith teaching (C2000, 1979 to 1985)

Read as you listen: Chuck Smith on Deuteronomy 21

Read the opening of his teaching

Now in the 21st chapter.

If you find a dead body out in the field and you don't know the circumstances of the death; here's a man; he's dead in the field. Then they are to measure from that dead body to the closest cities and you are to bring the elders of the city out. They are to sacrifice a bullock and they are to each one swear that they don't know how this person died. And thus, the cities would be cleared from this person who had been slain and whose body left there in the field. And so it was sort of an inquest kind of a thing for the dead, in order that there might be sort of the innocency, from the declaration of the innocency from the guilt.