Joshua 20:4

Legacy Standard Bible

And he shall flee to one of these cities and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and speak his case in the hearing of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city to them and give him a place, 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 in the square,

Job 5:4

“His sons are far from salvation, They are even crushed in the gate, And there is no deliverer.

Psalm 26:9

Do not take my soul away along with sinners, Nor my life with men of bloodshed,

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is known in the gates, When he sits with the elders of the land.

Jeremiah 38:7

But Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, while he was in the king’s palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. Now the king was sitting in the Gate of Benjamin;

Hebrews 6:18

so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us.

Joshua 20:3

that the manslayer who strikes down any person unintentionally, without premeditation, may flee there, and they shall become for you as a refuge from the avenger of blood.