The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.

God

And David's men said to him, Now is the time when the Lord says to you, I will give up your hater into your hands to do with him whatever seems good to you. Then David, getting up, took the skirt of Saul's robe in his hand, cutting off the end of it without his knowledge.

And the king said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Let him go on cursing, for the Lord has said, Put a curse on David, and who then may say, Why have you done so?

But this is not what is in his mind, and this is not his design; but his purpose is destruction, and the cutting off of more and more nations.

I will appoint

Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight.

Then Moses had three towns marked out on the far side of Jordan looking to the east;

When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in their houses;

Say to the children of Israel, Let certain towns be marked out as safe places, as I said to you by the mouth of Moses,

General references

But if a man has given a wound to another suddenly and not in hate, or without design has sent something against him,

Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's life secretly. And let all the people say, So be it.