Joshua 20:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The slayer shall flee to one of these cities and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and explain the case to the elders of that city; then the fugitive shall be taken into the city and given a place and shall remain with them.

Cross References

Job 29:7

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

Job 5:4

Their children are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.

Psalm 26:9

Do not sweep me away with sinners nor my life with the bloodthirsty,

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is known in the city gates, taking his seat among the elders of the land.

Jeremiah 38:7

Ebed-melech the Cushite, a eunuch in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. The king happened to be sitting at the Benjamin Gate,

Hebrews 6:18

so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God would prove false, we who have taken refuge might be strongly encouraged to seize the hope set before us.

Joshua 20:3

so that anyone who kills a person without intent or by mistake may flee there; they shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood.