Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.
From the avenger
Until he stand
General references
Bible References
From the avenger
Numbers 35:19
The revenger of blood himself shall kill the murderer. When he meets him, he shall kill him.
Deuteronomy 19:6
so that the avenger of the blood may not pursue the slayer while his heart is hot, and overtake him because the way is long, and kill him, and he had no sentence worthy of death, for he did not hate him in time past.
Joshua 20:3
that the manslayer who in innocence strikes anyone mortally, without knowing, may flee there. And they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
2 Samuel 14:7
And behold, the whole family has risen against your handmaid. And they said, Deliver him who struck his brother so that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed. And we will destroy the heir also. And so they shall put out my coal which is left, and shall leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the face of the earth.
Until he stand
Numbers 35:24
then the congregation shall judge between the one who kills and the revenger of blood according to these judgments.
Deuteronomy 19:11
But if a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up against him and strikes his life from him, so that he dies, and flees to one of these cities,
Joshua 20:4
And he shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city. And they shall take him into the city to themselves and make him a place, and he shall live with them.
General references
Numbers 35:19
The revenger of blood himself shall kill the murderer. When he meets him, he shall kill him.
Deuteronomy 4:42
so that the slayer might flee there, he who should kill his neighbor through error and who did not hate him in times past, and he fleeing to one of these cities might live.
Joshua 20:5
And if the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver the manslayer into his hand, for he has struck his neighbor without knowing, and did not hate him in past time.