Joshua 20:4

Good News Translation

You can run away to one of these cities, go to the place of judgment at the entrance to the city, and explain to the leaders what happened. Then they will let you into the city and give you a place to live in, so that you can stay there.

Cross References

Job 29:7

Whenever the city elders met and I took my place among them,

Job 5:4

Their children can never find safety; no one stands up to defend them in court.

Psalm 26:9

Do not destroy me with the sinners; spare me from the fate of murderers—

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is well known, one of the leading citizens.

Jeremiah 38:7

However, Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch who worked in the royal palace, heard that they had put me in the well. At that time the king was holding court at the Benjamin Gate.

Hebrews 6:18

There are these two things, then, that cannot change and about which God cannot lie. So we who have found safety with him are greatly encouraged to hold firmly to the hope placed before us.

Joshua 20:3

If any of you accidentally kills someone, you can go there and escape the one who is looking for revenge.