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Joshua 20:1 (show verse)
And Jehovah spoke to Joshua, saying,
Joshua 20:2 (show verse)
Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint for yourselves the cities of refuge, whereof I spoke unto you through Moses,
Joshua 20:3 (show verse)
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.
Joshua 20:4 (show verse)
And he shall flee unto one of those cities and stand at the entrance of the city-gate, and shall declare his matter in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
Joshua 20:5 (show verse)
And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; for he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not previously.
Joshua 20:6 (show verse)
And he shall dwell in that city, until he have stood before the assembly in judgment, until the death of the high-priest that shall be in those days; then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.
Joshua 20:7 (show verse)
And they hallowed Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kirjath-Arba, that is, Hebron, in the hill-country of Judah.
Cities of refuge » Names &c of
Galilee » Pprovince of
Galilee » The northern district of palestine » A city of refuge in
Hebron » A city » A city of the tribe of judah, south of jerusalem » A city of refuge
Kedesh » Also called kedesh-naphtali » A city of refuge
Refuge » Cities of » List of
Shechem » City of
Shechem » Also called sychar, a city of refuge in mount ephraim
or shechem Sychar » City of
Galilee » Pprovince of
Galilee » The northern district of palestine » A city of refuge in
Hebron » A city » A city of the tribe of judah, south of jerusalem » A city of refuge
Kedesh » Also called kedesh-naphtali » A city of refuge
Refuge » Cities of » List of
Shechem » City of
Shechem » Also called sychar, a city of refuge in mount ephraim
or shechem Sychar » City of
Joshua 20:8 (show verse)
And beyond the Jordan from Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness, in the plateau, out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan of the tribe of Manasseh.
Joshua 20:9 (show verse)
These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever smiteth any one mortally without intent might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the assembly.