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
But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water, and he cried and said, Alas, master! It was borrowed.

He shall flee

Numbers 35:25
And the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the kinsman avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, where he has fled, and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
Proverbs 27:12
A prudent man foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are hurt by it.
Isaiah 32:2
And that man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a hot land.

General references

Numbers 35:22
But if he thrusts him suddenly without enmity, or has cast upon him any thing without laying in wait,