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:

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Bible References

Head

2 Kings 6:5
And it came to pass, as one was felling a branch, that, the axe-head, fell into the water, so he made outcry and said - Alas! my lord, for, it, was borrowed!

He shall flee

Numbers 35:25
and the assembly shall rescue the manslayer out of the hand of the blood-redeemer, and the assembly shall restore him unto his city of refuge whither he had fled, - and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who hath been anointed with the hallowing oil.
Proverbs 27:12
A prudent man, seeth calamity - he hideth himself, the simple, pass on - they suffer.
Isaiah 32:2
So shall each one become As a hiding-place from the wind And a covert from the storm, - As channels of water ill a dry place, As the shadow of a massive cliff in a weary land.

General references

Numbers 35:22
But if suddenly, without enmity, he shall thrust him, or hurl upon him any missile, without design;