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
designate cities to serve as cities of refuge for you, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.
Exodus 21:13
But if he didn’t intend any harm, and yet God caused it to happen by his hand, I will appoint a place for you where he may flee.
Deuteronomy 19:5
If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings the ax to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, that person may flee to one of these cities and live.
Joshua 20:3
so that a person who kills someone unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

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