The LORD spoke to Joshua, saying, Jos 13:1-7Jos 5:14Jos 6:2Jos 7:10 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by 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 man slayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood. He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them. Jer 38:7Rut 4:1-2Heb 6:18Job 29:7Job 5:4Pro 31:23Psa 26:9 If the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver up the man slayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him before. Num 35:12Num 35:25 He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. Then the man slayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.’” Num 35:12Heb 9:26Num 35:24-25
They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. Jos 21:111Ch 6:76Jos 21:32Luk 1:39Jos 14:15Jos 21:13Jos 21:212Ch 10:1 Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, 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 appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the alien who lives among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands trial before the congregation. Num 35:15Jos 20:4Jos 20:6