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 as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water. Then he cried, and said, "Alas, my master! For it was borrowed."
He shall flee
Numbers 35:25
and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
Proverbs 27:12
A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
Isaiah 32:2
A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.
General references
Numbers 35:22
"'But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,