Joshua 20:4

New American Standard Bible 2020

Then he shall flee to one of these cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and state his case in the presence of the elders of that city; and they shall receive him into the city to them and give him a place, so that he may remain among them.

Cross References

Job 29:7

“When I went out to the gate of the city, When I took my seat in the public square,

Job 5:4

“His sons are far from safety, They are also oppressed at the gate, And there is no one to save them.

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 among 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 in the cistern. Now the king was sitting at 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 hold firmly to the hope set before us.

Joshua 20:3

so that one who commits manslaughter by killing a person unintentionally, without premeditation, may flee there, and they shall become your refuge from the avenger of blood.