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 Joshua  20
  Vs: 9 En: 308:133  He: 156:89
  
  
Jos 20:1
God commands,
Jos 20:1

The LORD also spake1 unto Joshua, saying,

Jos 20:2
CITIES

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint2 out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:

Jos 20:3
AVENGER
SLAYER, THE

That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

Jos 20:4
GATES

And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering4 of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take5 him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may6 dwell among them.

Jos 20:5

7And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.

Jos 20:6

And he shall dwell in that city, until8 he stand before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.

Jos 20:7
and the children of Israel appoint the six cities of refuge.
Jos 20:7
GALILEE
KEDESH
SHECHEM, SICHEM, OR SYCHEM
Hebron
Kiriath-arba
Shechem
Galilee
Kedesh 1

And they appointed9 Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem10 in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba11, which is Hebron, in the mountain12 of Judah.

Jos 20:8
GOLAN
Jericho
Gilead
Jordan
Bezer
Ramoth 3
Bashan
Golan

And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer13 in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth14 in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan15 in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.

Jos 20:9
CITIES

These were the cities16 appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood17 before the congregation.

   
   
 Joshua  20
  Vs: 9 En: 308:133  He: 156:89
  
  

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