Joshua 20:3

New American Bible - revised edition

to which anyone guilty of inadvertent and unintentional homicide may flee for asylum from the avenger of blood.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:11

But she said, “Please, let the king remember the Lord your God, that the avenger of blood may not go too far in destruction and that my son may not be done away with.” He replied, “As the Lord lives, not a hair of your son shall fall to the ground.”

Leviticus 4:2

Tell the Israelites: When a person inadvertently does wrong by violating any one of the Lord’s prohibitions— For the Anointed Priest.

Numbers 35:12

These cities will serve you as places of asylum from the avenger of blood, so that a homicide will not be put to death until tried before the community.

Numbers 35:19

The avenger of blood is the one who will kill the murderer, putting the individual to death on sight.

Numbers 35:22

However, if someone pushes another without malice aforethought, or without lying in ambush throws some object at another,

Hebrews 6:18

so that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge might be strongly encouraged to hold fast to the hope that lies before us.

Joshua 20:2

Tell the Israelites: Designate for yourselves the cities of refuge of which I spoke to you through Moses,

Joshua 20:4

To one of these cities the killer shall flee, and standing at the entrance of the city gate, shall plead his case in the hearing of the elders of the city, who must receive him and assign him a place in which to live among them.