1Then the LORD said to Joshua,stylusJoshua 13:1, Joshua 13:7, Joshua 7:10, Joshua 6:2, Joshua 5:142“Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,stylusDeuteronomy 19:2, Deuteronomy 19:13, Deuteronomy 19:2, Deuteronomy 19:13, Deuteronomy 4:413so that anyone who kills another unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.stylus4When someone flees to one of these cities, stands at the entrance of the city gate, and states his case before its elders, they are to bring him into the city and give him a place to live among them.stylusJeremiah 38:7, Jeremiah 38:7, Ruth 4:1, Ruth 4:2, Ruth 4:15Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the manslayer into his hand, because that man killed his neighbor accidentally without prior malice.stylusNumbers 35:12, Numbers 35:12, Numbers 35:25, Numbers 35:256He is to stay in that city until he stands trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest serving at that time. Then the manslayer may return to his own home in the city from which he fled.”stylusNumbers 35:12, Numbers 35:12, Hebrews 9:26, Hebrews 9:26, Numbers 35:247So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.stylusJoshua 21:11, Joshua 21:11, Joshua 21:32, Luke 1:39, 1 Chronicles 6:768And beyond the Jordan, east of Jericho, they designated Bezer on the wilderness plateau from the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Manasseh.stylusJoshua 21:36, 1 Chronicles 6:78, Joshua 21:36, 1 Chronicles 6:78, Joshua 21:279These are the cities appointed for all the Israelites and foreigners among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood prior to standing trial before the assembly.stylusNumbers 35:15, Numbers 35:15, Joshua 20:6, Joshua 20:4, Joshua 20:6
