Cities of Refuge

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Exodus 21:13 OT

  but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.

• Numbers 35:11 OT

  then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

• Joshua 20:3 OT

  that the man slayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

• Deuteronomy 4:41-43 OT

  Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally and didn’t hate him in time past, and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:…

• Joshua 20:7 OT

  They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

• Joshua 20:8 OT

  Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.

• Deuteronomy 19:3 OT

  You shall prepare the way, and divide the borders of your land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit into three parts, that every man slayer may flee there.

• Isaiah 62:10 OT

  Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way of the people! Build up, build up the highway! Gather out the stones! Lift up a banner for the peoples.

• Joshua 20:4 OT

  He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live…

• Numbers 35:15 OT

  For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge, that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

• Numbers 35:12 OT

  The cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

• Numbers 35:24 OT

  then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

• Numbers 35:26 OT

  “ ‘But if the man slayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge where he flees,

• Numbers 35:27 OT

  and the avenger of blood finds him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the man slayer, he shall not be guilty of blood,

• Numbers 35:25 OT

  The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was…

• Numbers 35:28 OT

  because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the man slayer shall return into the land of his possession.

• Exodus 21:14 OT

  If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

• Numbers 35:16-21 OT

  “ ‘But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death. If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The…

• Psalms 91:2 OT

  I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”

• Isaiah 25:4 OT

  For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

• Hebrews 6:18 NT

  that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

• Isaiah 35:8 OT

  A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.

• John 14:6 NT

  Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.