Joshua 20:4

New International Version

When they flee to one of these cities, they are to stand in the entrance of the city gate and state their case before the elders of that city. Then the elders are to admit the fugitive into their city and provide a place to live among them.

Cross References

Job 29:7

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

Job 5:4

His children are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.

Psalm 26:9

Do not take away my soul along with sinners, my life with those who are bloodthirsty,

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is respected at the city gate, where he takes his seat among the elders of the land.

Jeremiah 38:7

But Ebed-Melek, a Cushite, an official in the royal palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. While the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate,

Hebrews 6:18

God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be greatly encouraged.

Joshua 20:3

so that anyone who kills a person accidentally and unintentionally may flee there and find protection from the avenger of blood.