Joshua 20:4

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

Job 29:7

Whenever I went out to the gate of the city and took my seat in the square,

Job 5:4

May his children be far from safety; may they be crushed at the gate without a rescuer.

Psalm 26:9

Do not take me away with sinners, nor my life with the men of blood,

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is prominent at the city gates as he sits with the elders of the land.

Jeremiah 38:7

Now Ebed-melech, an Ethiopian, a court official in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the cistern. The king happened to be sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,

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 20:3

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