The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying, Jos 13:1-7Jos 5:14Jos 6:2Jos 7:10 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses: Deu 19:2-13Deu 4:41-43Num 35:11-24Num 35:6Rom 8:1Exo 21:13-14Heb 6:18-19Rom 8:33-34 That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood. And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them. Jer 38:7Rut 4:1-2Heb 6:18Job 29:7Job 5:4Pro 31:23Psa 26:9 And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime. Num 35:12Num 35:25 And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled. Num 35:12Heb 9:26Num 35:24-25
¶ And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah. 1 Jos 21:111Ch 6:76Jos 21:32Luk 1:39Jos 14:15Jos 21:13Jos 21:212Ch 10:1 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh. 1Ch 6:78Jos 21:36Jos 21:27Jos 21:381Ch 6:801Ki 22:3-41Ki 22:6Deu 4:43 These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation. Num 35:15Jos 20:4Jos 20:6