Exodus 21:14

“But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile, etc.] That comes with malice in his heart, with wrath in his countenance, in a bold, daring, hostile manner, using all the art, cunning, and contrivance he can, to take away the life of his neighbour; no asylum, no refuge, not anything to screen him from justice is to be allowed him: hence, a messenger of the sanhedrim, or an executioner, one that inflicts the forty stripes, save one, or a physician, or one that chastises his son or scholar, under whose hands persons may die, do not come under this law; for though what they do they may do wilfully, yet not with guile, as Jarchi and others observe, not with an ill…”

“There was no place of safety for the guilty murderer, not even the altar of Yahweh. Thus all superstitious notions connected with the right of sanctuary were excluded. Adonijah and Joab 1 Kings 1:50; 1 Kings 2:28 appear to have vainly trusted that the common feeling would protect them, if they took hold of the horns of the altar on which atonement with blood was made Leviticus 4:7. But for one who killed a man “at unawares,” that is, without intending to do it, the law afterward appointed places of refuge, Numbers 35:6-34; Deuteronomy 4:41-43; Deuteronomy 19:2-10; Joshua 20:2-9. It is very probable that there was some provision answering to the cities of refuge, that may have been based upon…”

“21:14 dragged . . . from my altar: See 1 Kgs 2:28-33.”

“presumptuously: Num 15:30, Num 15:31; Deu 1:43, Deu 17:12, Deu 17:13, Deu 18:22, Deu 19:11-13; Kg1 2:29-34; Psa 19:13; Heb 10:26; Pe2 2:10 slay: Num 35:20, Num 35:21; Deu 27:24; Sa2 3:27, Sa2 20:9, Sa2 20:10 take him: Kg1 1:50, Kg1 1:51, Kg1 2:28-34; Kg2 11:15 Exodus 21:15”