Joshua 20 Cross References - Leeser

¹ And the Lord spoke unto Joshua, saying, ² speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint for yourselves the cities of refuge, whereof I have spoken unto you by the hand of Moses; ³ That thither may flee the manslayer that killeth any person unawares, without knowledge; and they shall be unto you for a refuge from the avenger of the blood. ⁴ And he shall flee unto one of those cities, and he shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and speak in the ears of the elders of that city his words; and they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them. ⁵ And if the avenger of the blood should pursue after him, then shall they not deliver the manslayer up into his hand; because without knowledge did he smite his neighbor, and he was not an enemy to him in time past. ⁶ And he shall dwell in that city, until he shall have stood before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high-priest that may be in those days: then shall the manslayer return, and come unto his own house, unto the city whence he hath fled. ⁷ And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in the mountain of Naphtali, and Shechem in the mountain of Ephraim, and Kiryath-arba’, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah. ⁸ And on the other side of the Jordan by Jericho eastward, they appointed Bezer in the wilderness in the plain from the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gil’ad from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Menasseh. ⁹ These were the cities assigned for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that thither might flee whosoever killeth any person at unawares, and that he should not die by the hand of the avenger of the blood, until he have stood before the congregation.

¹⁴ And he said, No; for I am a captain of the host of the Lord: now am I come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and bowed himself, and said to him, What doth my lord speak unto his servant?

² And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thy hand Jericho and its king, even the mighty men of valor.

¹⁰ And the Lord said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou upon thy face.

¹ Now Joshua was old, well stricken in years; and the Lord said unto him, Thou art old, stricken in years, and of the land there remaineth yet very much to be taken possession of. ² This is the land that yet remaineth: All the circles of the Philistines, and all the land of the Geshurites, ³ From the Shichor, which runneth before Egypt, even unto the boundary of ‘Ekron northward, is counted to the Canaanites; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazzathites, and the Ashdodites, the Eshkelonites, the Gittites, and the ‘Ekronites; also the ‘Avvim; ⁴ On the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Me’arah that belongeth to the Zidonians, up to Aphek, up to the border of the Emorites; ⁵ And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the rising of the sun, from Ba’al-gad under mount Chermon up to the entrance of Chamath. ⁶ All the inhabitants of the mountain from Lebanon unto Missrephoth-mayim, all the Zidonians: these will I drive out from before the children of Israel; only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee. ⁷ And now divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Menasseh.

¹³ And if he did not lie in wait, but God let it come into his hand, then will I appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. ¹⁴ But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile, from my altar shalt thou take him, that he may die.

⁶ And the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, which ye shall appoint that the manslayer may flee thither; and in addition to them shall ye give forty and two cities.

¹¹ Then ye shall appoint unto yourselves proper cities, that they be cities of refuge for you; and thither shall flee the manslayer who killeth any person at unawares. ¹² And these cities shall be unto you for a refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he have stood before the congregation for trial. ¹³ And the cities which ye shall give, shall be six cities of refuge unto you; ¹⁴ Three of these cities shall ye give on this side of the Jordan, and the three other cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan: cities of refuge shall they be. ¹⁵ For the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them, shall these six cities be for a refuge: that every one may flee thither that killeth any person at unawares. ¹⁶ And if he have smitten him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. ¹⁷ And if he have smitten him with a stone which one can take in the hand, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. ¹⁸ Or if he have smitten him with an article of wood, which one can take in the hand, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. ¹⁹ The avenger of the blood himself shall slay the murderer; when he meeteth him, shall he slay him. ²⁰ And if he push against him out of hatred, or he have hurled at him any thing by lying in wait, that he die; ²¹ Or if in enmity he have smitten him with his hand, that he died, he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the avenger of the blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth with him. ²² But if he have pushed against him accidentally without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without lying in wait, ²³ Or with any stone wherewith a man may die, without seeing him, and he have let it fall upon him that he died; whereas he was not his enemy, and did not seek his harm: ²⁴ Then shall the congregation judge between the slayer and the avenger of the blood according to these institutions;

⁴¹ Then Moses set aside three cities on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun; ⁴² That thither might flee the manslayer, who should kill his neighbor unawares, when he had not been an enemy to him in times past; and that he should flee unto one of these cities and live. ⁴³ Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gil’ad for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Menassites.

² Then shalt thou set apart three cities for thyself, in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it. ³ Thou shalt put in order for thyself the way to them, and divide into three parts the territory of thy land, which the Lord thy God will give thee to inherit, and it shall serve, that every man-slayer may flee thither. ⁴ And this is the case of the man-slayer, who shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso smiteth his neighbor without knowledge, when he hath not been an enemy to him in time past; ⁵ And he that goeth into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron slippeth from the helve, and striketh his neighbor, that he die: this one shall flee unto one of these cities, and live; ⁶ That the avenger of the blood pursue not the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and smite him dead; whereas he deserveth not a judgment of death, inasmuch as he was not an enemy to him in time past. ⁷ Therefore do I command thee, saying, Three cities shalt thou set apart for thyself. ⁸ And if the Lord thy God enlarge thy boundary, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he hath spoken to give unto thy fathers; ⁹ Because thou dost keep all this commandment to do it, which I command thee this day, to love the Lord thy God, and to walk in his ways all the days: then shalt thou add for thyself three cities more, unto these three; ¹⁰ That innocent blood be not shed in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and blood-guiltiness be brought upon thee. ¹¹ But if any man be an enemy to his neighbor, and he lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally so that he die, and he flee unto one of these cities: ¹² Then shall the elders of his city send and fetch him thence, and they shall deliver him into the hand of the avenger of the blood, that he may die. ¹³ Thy eye shall not look with pity on him; but thou shalt put away the shedding of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

¹ But Bo’az went up to the gate, and sat down there; and, behold, the kinsman of whom Bo’az had spoken came passing by; and he said unto him, Turn aside hither, sit down here, such a one. And he turned aside, and sat down. ² And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.

⁴ His children are far from help, and men crush them in the gate, with no one to deliver them.

⁷ When I went out to the gate close by the city, when in the open place I established my seat:

⁹ Take not away with sinners my soul, nor with men of blood my life;

²³ Well known is in the gates her husband, when he sitteth with the elders of the land.

⁷ Now when ‘Ebed-melech the Cushi, a eunuch who was in the king’s house, heard that they had placed Jeremiah into the pit; while the king was sitting in the gate of Benjamin:

¹² And these cities shall be unto you for a refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he have stood before the congregation for trial.

²⁵ And the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of the blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he had fled; and he shall abide in it until the death of the high-priest, who hath been anointed with the holy oil.

²⁴ Then shall the congregation judge between the slayer and the avenger of the blood according to these institutions; ²⁵ And the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of the blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he had fled; and he shall abide in it until the death of the high-priest, who hath been anointed with the holy oil.

¹⁸ And Jacob came in good health to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and he encamped before the city. ¹⁹ And he bought the parcel of the field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Chamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred kessitah.

¹⁵ And the name of Hebron was aforetimes Kiryatharba’, who was the greatest man among the ‘Anakim. And the land had rest from war.

¹¹ And they gave unto them Kiryath-arba’, the father of ‘Anak, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah, with the open spaces thereof round about it;

¹³ And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave the city of refuge for the manslayer, Hebron with its open spaces, and Libnah with its open spaces,

²¹ And they gave to them the city of refuge for the manslayer, Shechem with its open spaces in the mountain of Ephraim, and Gezer with its open spaces,

³² And from the tribe of Naphtali, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Kedesh in Galilee with its open spaces, and Chammothdor with its open spaces, and Karthan with its open spaces: three cities.

^{76 (6:61)} And from the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its open spaces, and Chammon with its open spaces, and Kiryathayim with its open spaces.

¹ And Rehobo’am went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.

⁴³ Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gil’ad for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Menassites.

²⁷ And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, they gave from the other half tribe of Menasseh the city of refuge for the manslayer, Golan in Bashan with its open spaces, and Be’eshterah with its open spaces: two cities.

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^{38 (21:36)} And from the tribe of Gad, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Ramoth in Gil’ad with its open spaces, and Machanayim with its open spaces,

³ And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gil’ad is ours, and we remain idle, without taking it out of the hand of the king of Syria? ⁴ And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to the battle against Ramoth-gil’ad? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I will be like thee, my people like thy people, my horses like thy horses.

⁶ Then assembled the king of Israel the prophets, about four hundred men, and said unto them, shall I go against Ramoth-gil’ad to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; and the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.

^{78 (6:63)} And on the other side the Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its open spaces, and Jahzah with its open spaces,

^{80 (6:65)} And from the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gila’d with its open spaces, and Machanayim with its open spaces.

¹⁵ For the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them, shall these six cities be for a refuge: that every one may flee thither that killeth any person at unawares.

⁴ And he shall flee unto one of those cities, and he shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and speak in the ears of the elders of that city his words; and they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

⁶ And he shall dwell in that city, until he shall have stood before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high-priest that may be in those days: then shall the manslayer return, and come unto his own house, unto the city whence he hath fled.