Bible Cross References
lie not
Numbers 35:11
you are to choose cities of refuge to which any of you can escape if you kill someone accidentally.
Numbers 35:22
"But suppose you accidentally kill someone you do not hate, whether by pushing him down or by throwing something at him.
Deuteronomy 19:4-6
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If you accidentally kill someone who is not your enemy, you may escape to any of these cities and be safe.
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For example, if two of you go into the forest together to cut wood and if, as one of you is chopping down a tree, the ax head comes off the handle and kills the other, you can run to one of those three cities and be safe.
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If there were only one city, the distance to it might be too great, and the relative who is responsible for taking revenge for the killing might catch you and angrily kill an innocent person. After all, it was by accident that you killed someone who was not your enemy.
Deuteronomy 19:11-6
Micah 7:2
There is not an honest person left in the land, no one loyal to God. Everyone is waiting for a chance to commit murder. Everyone hunts down their own people.
God
1 Samuel 24:4
They said to him, "This is your chance! The LORD has told you that he would put your enemy in your power and you could do to him whatever you wanted to." David crept over and cut off a piece of Saul's robe without Saul's knowing it.
1 Samuel 24:10
You can see for yourself that just now in the cave the LORD put you in my power. Some of my men told me to kill you, but I felt sorry for you and said that I would not harm you in the least, because you are the one whom the LORD chose to be king.
1 Samuel 24:18
Today you have shown how good you are to me, because you did not kill me, even though the LORD put me in your power.
2 Samuel 16:10
"This is none of your business," the king said to Abishai and his brother Joab. "If he curses me because the LORD told him to, who has the right to ask why he does it?"
Isaiah 10:7
But the Assyrian emperor has his own violent plans in mind. He is determined to destroy many nations.
I will appoint
Numbers 35:11
you are to choose cities of refuge to which any of you can escape if you kill someone accidentally.
Deuteronomy 4:41-43
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Then Moses set aside three cities east of the Jordan River
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to which a man could escape and be safe if he had accidentally killed someone who had not been his enemy. He could escape to one of these cities and not be put to death.
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For the tribe of Reuben there was the city of Bezer, on the desert plateau; for the tribe of Gad there was Ramoth, in the territory of Gilead; and for the tribe of Manasseh there was Golan, in the territory of Bashan.
Deuteronomy 19:1-3
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"After the LORD your God has destroyed the people whose land he is giving you and after you have taken their cities and houses and settled there,
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divide the territory into three parts, each with a city that can be easily reached. Then any of you that kill will be able to escape to one of them for protection.
Deuteronomy 19:9-3
Joshua 20:2-9
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to say to the people of Israel, "Choose the cities of refuge that I had Moses tell you about.
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If any of you accidentally kills someone, you can go there and escape the one who is looking for revenge.
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You can run away to one of these cities, go to the place of judgment at the entrance to the city, and explain to the leaders what happened. Then they will let you into the city and give you a place to live in, so that you can stay there.
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If the one looking for revenge follows you there, the people of the city must not hand you over to that one. They must protect you because you killed the person accidentally and not out of anger.
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You may stay in the city until you have received a public trial and until the death of the man who is then the High Priest. Then you may go back home to your own town, from which you had run away."
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So, on the west side of the Jordan they set aside Kedesh in Galilee, in the hill country of Naphtali; Shechem, in the hill country of Ephraim; and Hebron, in the hill country of Judah.
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East of the Jordan, on the desert plateau east of Jericho, they chose Bezer in the territory of Reuben; Ramoth in Gilead, in the territory of Gad; and Golan in Bashan, in the territory of Manasseh.
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These were the cities of refuge chosen for all the people of Israel and for any foreigner living among them. Any who killed a person accidentally could find protection there from the one looking for revenge; they could not be killed unless they had first received a public trial.