Deuteronomy 19:4

Lighthouse Bible 2006

And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee there, that he may live: Whoever kills his neighbor ignorantly, whom he did not hate in time past;

Cross References

Genesis 31:2

And Jacob beheld the face of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

2 Samuel 14:11

Then said she, I pray you, let the king remember the LORD your God, that you would not permit the avengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD lives, there shall not one hair of your son fall to the earth.

1 Chronicles 11:2

And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, you were he that led out and brought in Israel: and the LORD your God said to you, You shall feed my people Israel, and you shall be ruler over my people Israel.

Isaiah 30:33

For Tophet is ordained from of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he has made it deep and large: there is a pile of fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, kindles it.

Numbers 35:12

And they shall be to you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stands before the congregation in judgment.

Numbers 35:9

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Deuteronomy 19:3

You shall prepare a way, and divide the territory of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee there.

Deuteronomy 19:5

As when a man goes into the wood with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand makes a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights upon his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of those cities, and live:

Deuteronomy 19:6

So that the avenger of the blood does not pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and kill him; whereas he was not worthy of death, because he did not hate him in time past.

Deuteronomy 4:42

That the slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unexpectedly, and did not hate him in times past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

Joshua 3:4

Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go: for you have not passed this way until now.