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 you shall choose cities to be cities of refuge for you, so that the slayer who kills any person through error may flee there.
Exodus 21:13
And if a man does not lie in wait, but God delivers him into his hand, then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.
Deuteronomy 19:5
even he who goes into the wood with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand brings a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the wood and lights on his neighbor so that he dies; he shall flee to one of those cities and live,
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.