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Cities of Refuge

6 links · from Exodus 21:13

Cities of refuge in the Topics

1. Exodus 21:13

   And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.

2. Numbers 35:6

   And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities.

3. Deuteronomy 4:42

   That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:

4. Deuteronomy 19:3

   Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.

5. Joshua 20:9

   These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.

6. 1 Chronicles 6:67

   And they gave unto them, of the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also Gezer with her suburbs,

From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908), by Frank Charles Thompson.