Deuteronomy 4:42
where a person could run to after accidentally killing someone without deliberate hatred. To save their life they could run to one of these towns:
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In Context
41Then Moses assigned three sanctuary towns to the east of the Jordan
Cross References
Numbers 35:11choose towns as your sanctuary towns, so a person who kills someone by mistake may run there.
Deuteronomy 19:1After the Lord your God has destroyed the nations whose land he's giving you, and after you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,
Hebrews 6:18So by these two actions that can't be changed, and since it's impossible for God to lie, we can have total confidence, having run for safety to take hold of the hope God presented to us.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 4:42-49
41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising; 42 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live: 43 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites. 44 And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel: 45 These are the testimonies, and the… Read the whole commentary →