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 as one was heaving of a beam, the axe head fell into the water. And he cried out and said, "Alas, master, for it was lent me."

He shall flee

Numbers 35:25
And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the judge of blood, and shall restore him again unto the franchised city whither he was fled. And he shall bide there unto the death of the high priest which was anointed with holy oil.
Proverbs 27:12
A wise man seeing the plague will hide himself; as for fools they go on still, and suffer harm.
Isaiah 32:2
He shall be unto men, as a defense for the wind, and as a refuge for the tempest, like as a river of water in a thirsty place, and the shadow of a great rock in a dry land.

General references

Numbers 35:22
But and if he pushed him by chance and not of hate, or cast at him with any manner of thing and not of laying of wait,