Thematic Bible
Joshua 20:1 (show verse)
Then the Lord spoke to Joshua,
Joshua 20:2 (show verse)
“Tell the Israelites: Select your cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,
Joshua 20:3 (show verse)
so that a person who kills someone unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
Joshua 20:4 (show verse)
When someone flees to one of these cities, stands at the entrance of the city gate, and states his case before the elders of that city, they are to bring him into the city and give him a place to live among them.
Joshua 20:5 (show verse)
And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not hand the one who committed manslaughter over to him, for he killed his neighbor accidentally and did not hate him beforehand.
Joshua 20:6 (show verse)
He is to stay in that city until he stands trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest serving at that time. Then the one who committed manslaughter may return home to his own city from which he fled.”
Joshua 20:7 (show verse)
So they designated Kedesh in the hill country of Naphtali in Galilee, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-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)
Across the Jordan east of Jericho, they selected Bezer on the wilderness plateau from Reuben’s tribe, Ramoth in Gilead from Gad’s tribe, and Golan in Bashan from Manasseh’s tribe.
Joshua 20:9 (show verse)
These are the cities appointed for all the Israelites and foreigners among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there and not die at the hand of the avenger of blood until he stands before the assembly.