Joshua 20:4

Catholic Public Domain Version

And when he will have fled to one of these cities, he shall stand before the gate of the city, and he shall speak to the ancients of that city, the things that prove him innocent. And so shall they receive him, and give him a place in which to live.

Cross References

Job 29:7

When I went to the gate of the city, or to the main street, they prepared a chair for me.

Job 5:4

His sons will be far from prosperity and will be crushed at the gate, and there will be none who can rescue them.

Psalm 26:9

Do not turn your face away from me. In your wrath, do not turn aside from your servant. Be my helper. Do not abandon me, and do not despise me, O God, my Saviour.

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is noble at the gates, when he sits among the senators of the land.

Jeremiah 38:7

Now Ebedmelech, an Ethiopian man, a eunuch who was in the king's house, heard that they had sent Jeremiah into the pit, and also that the king was sitting at the gate of Benjamin.

Hebrews 6:18

so that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest solace: we who have fled together so as to hold fast to the hope set before us.

Joshua 20:3

so that anyone who will have struck down a life unintentionally may flee to them. And so, he may be able to escape from the wrath of a close relative, who is an avenger of blood.