Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,
General references
Bible References
General references
Numbers 35:11
you will select for yourselves cities for your cities of refuge, that a killer who has killed a person unintentionally can flee there.
Exodus 21:13
But if he did not lie in wait {and it was an accident}, I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee.
Deuteronomy 19:5
{For example}, when somebody goes with his neighbor into the forest to cut wood, and the iron [head] slips from the handle [of the tool] and strikes his neighbor and he dies, [then] he may flee to one of these cities, and [so] he may live.
Joshua 20:3
Anyone who kills a person by accident or unintentionally may flee there; they will be for yourselves a refuge from the avenger of blood.