Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

Take

That he may

Bible References

At the entering

Ruth 4:1
Then went Boaz unto the gate and sat him down there. And behold, the kinsman of which Boaz spake came by. Unto whom he said, "Come and sit down here, and called him by his name." And he turned in and sat down.
Job 5:4
that his children were without prosperity or health; that they were slain in the door, and no man to deliver them;
Job 29:7
When I went through the city unto the gate, and when they set me a chair in the street;
Proverbs 31:23
Her husband is much set by in the gates, when he sitteth among the rulers of the land.
Jeremiah 38:7
So Jeremiah stuck fast in the mire. Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, being a chamberlain in the king's court, understood that they had cast Jeremiah in to the dungeon:

Take

Psalm 26:9
O shut not up my soul with the sinners, nor my life with the bloodthirsty,

That he may

Hebrews 6:18
that by two immutable things - in which it was impossible that God should lie - we might have perfect consolation, which have fled, for to hold fast the hope that is set before us: