Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,

Bible References

General references

Numbers 35:11
then ye shall appoint for yourselves cities: cities of refuge shall they be for you; that a manslayer may flee thither, who without intent smiteth a person mortally.
Exodus 21:13
But if he have not lain in wait, and God have delivered him into his hand, I will appoint thee a place to which he shall flee.
Deuteronomy 19:5
as when he 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 iron slippeth from the handle, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; such an one shall flee unto one of these cities, and live;
Joshua 20:3
that the slayer who unwittingly without intent smiteth any one mortally may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.