Joshua 20:4

Rotherham Emphasized Bible 1902

and he shall flee unto one of these cities and present himself at the entrance of the gate of the city, and shall speak, in the ears of the elders of that city, his defence,—and they shall take him for protection into the city unto them, and shall give him a place, so shall he dwell with them.

Cross References

Jeremiah 38:7

When Ebed-melech the Ethiopian one of the eunuchs, he being in the house of the king, heard that they had delivered Jeremiah into the dungeon,—the king being seated in the gate of Benjamin,

Hebrews 6:18

In order that, through means of two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible for God to make himself false, a mighty consolation, we might have, who have fled along to grasp, the fore-lying hope,

Proverbs 31:23

Known in the gates, is her husband, when he sitteth, with the elders of the land:

Psalm 26:9

Do not remove, with sinners, my soul, nor, with men of bloodshed, my life;

Job 29:7

When I went out to the gate unto the city, in the open place, made ready my seat,

Job 5:4

His children are far removed from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver:

Joshua 20:3

that the manslayer who slayeth a person by mistake, unwittingly, may flee thither,—so shall they be unto you for refuge from the blood-redeemer,