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
select certain cities to be places of refuge. Anyone who unintentionally kills another person may run to them.
Exodus 21:13
If you did not intend to kill someone and I, Jehovah, let it happen anyway, you may run for safety to a place that I have set aside.
Deuteronomy 19:5
For example: when a man goes into the forest with his friend to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron head slips off the handle and strikes his friend so that he dies. He may flee to one of these cities and live.
Joshua 20:3
Anyone who kills someone accidentally and unintentionally may go there for a refuge from the avenger of blood.