Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
Head
He shall flee
General references
Bible References
Head
2 Kings 6:5
But one of them, while cutting a board, let the head of his axe go into the water; and he gave a cry, and said, This is a bad business, my master, for it is another's.
He shall flee
Numbers 35:25
And let the people keep the man responsible for the death safe from the hands of him who has the right of punishment for blood, and send him back to his safe town where he had gone in flight: there let him be till the death of the high priest who was marked with the holy oil.
Proverbs 27:12
The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.
Isaiah 32:2
And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.
General references
Numbers 35:22
But if a man has given a wound to another suddenly and not in hate, or without design has sent something against him,