Joshua 20:3

Holman Christian Standard Bible

so that a person who kills someone unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:11

She replied, “Please, may the king invoke the Lord your God, so that the avenger of blood will not increase the loss, and they will not eliminate my son! ” “As the Lord lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your son will fall to the ground.”

Leviticus 4:2

“Tell the Israelites: When someone sins unintentionally against any of the Lord’s commands and does anything prohibited by them —

Numbers 35:12

You will have the cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the one who kills someone will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.

Numbers 35:19

The avenger of blood himself is to kill the murderer; when he finds him, he is to kill him.

Numbers 35:22

“But if anyone suddenly pushes a person without hostility or throws any object at him without malicious intent

Hebrews 6:18

so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us.

Joshua 20:2

“Tell the Israelites: Select your cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,

Joshua 20:4

When someone flees to one of these cities, stands at the entrance of the city gate, and states his case before the elders of that city, they are to bring him into the city and give him a place to live among them.