Joshua 20:4

Amplified Bible

He shall flee to one of these cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and explain his case to the elders of that city; and they shall take him into [the protection of] the city and give him a place [to stay], so that he may live among them.

Cross References

Job 29:7

“When I went out to the gate of the city, When I took my seat [as a city father] in the square,

Job 5:4

“His children are far from safety [and included in their father’s ruin], They are oppressed and crushed in the [court of justice in the city’s] gate, And there is no one to rescue them.

Psalm 26:9

Do not sweep my soul away with sinners, Nor [sweep away] my life with men of bloodshed,

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is known in the [city’s] gates, When he sits among the elders of the land. [Prov 12:4]

Jeremiah 38:7

Now Ebed-melech the Ethiopian (Cushite), one of the eunuchs who was in the king’s palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the cistern, and while the king was sitting in the Gate of Benjamin,

Hebrews 6:18

so that by two unchangeable things [His promise and His oath] in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled [to Him] for refuge would have strong encouragement and indwelling strength to hold tightly to the hope set before us.

Joshua 20:3

so that the person (manslayer) who kills any person unintentionally, without premeditation, may flee there, and they shall be your refuge from the blood avenger. [Num 35:10ff]