Joshua 20:4

The English Standar Version

He shall flee to one of these cities and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and explain his case to the elders of that city. Then they shall take him into the city and give him a place, and he shall remain with them.

Cross References

Job 29:7

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

Job 5:4

His 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 my soul away with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men,

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is known in the gates when he sits among the elders of the land.

Jeremiah 38:7

When Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern -- the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate --

Hebrews 6:18

so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.

Joshua 20:3

that the manslayer who strikes any person without intent or unknowingly may flee there. They shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood.