Deuteronomy 4:42

Those who unintentionally killed someone whom they had never hated could flee to one of these cities and save their lives.

Numbers 35:6

Six of the cities you give the Levites will be cities of refuge. You must allow murderers to escape to these cities. In addition, you must also give the Levites forty-two other cities.

Numbers 35:11-12

select certain cities to be places of refuge. Anyone who unintentionally kills another person may run to them.

Numbers 35:15-28

These six cities will be places of refuge for Israelites, foreigners, and strangers among you. Anyone who unintentionally kills another person may flee to these cities.

Deuteronomy 19:1-10

When Jehovah your God destroys all the nations that are living in the land that he gives you. you will force them out and live in their cities and houses.

Hebrews 6:18

God did this to offer encouragement so we may rely on the hope offered to us. We have taken refuge in that hope and it is impossible for God to lie. These two things can never be changed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Deuteronomy 4:42

That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:

General references

Deuteronomy 19:1

Numbers 35:6

Hebrews 6:18

Bible References

General references

When Jehovah your God destroys all the nations that are living in the land that he gives you. you will force them out and live in their cities and houses.

Six of the cities you give the Levites will be cities of refuge. You must allow murderers to escape to these cities. In addition, you must also give the Levites forty-two other cities.

God did this to offer encouragement so we may rely on the hope offered to us. We have taken refuge in that hope and it is impossible for God to lie. These two things can never be changed.