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
And it happened as one was felling a log, the axe-head fell into the water. And he cried and said, Alas, master! For it was borrowed.
He shall flee
Numbers 35:25
And the congregation shall deliver the one who kills out of the hand of the revenger of blood. And the congregation shall send him back to the city of his refuge, to which he had fled. And he shall stay in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.
Proverbs 27:12
A sensible one foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.
Isaiah 32:2
And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a shelter from the tempest, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
General references
Numbers 35:22
But if he thrusts him suddenly without hatred, or has thrown something on him without lying in wait,