Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And when he shall flee to one of these cities: he shall stand before the gate of the city, and shall speak to the ancients of that city, such things as prove him innocent: and so shall they receive him, and give him a place to dwell in. at the entering Revelation 4:1,2 After these things I looked, and behold a door was opened in heaven, and the first voice which I heard, as it were, of a trumpet speaking with me, said: Come up hither, and I will shew thee the things which must be done hereafter. . . . Job 5:4 His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them. Job 29:7 When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair? Proverbs 31:23 Her husband is honourable in the gates, when he sitteth among the senators of the land. Jeremiah 38:7 Now Abdemelech the Ethiopian, an eunuch that was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon: but the king was sitting in the gate of Benjamin. take Psalm 26:9 Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked: nor my life with bloody men: that he may Hebrews 6:18 That by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest comfort, we who have fled for refuge to hold fast the hope set before us. Context Six Cities of Refuge…3That whosoever shall kill a person unawares may flee to them, and may escape the wrath of the kinsman, who is the avenger of blood. 4And when he shall flee to one of these cities: he shall stand before the gate of the city, and shall speak to the ancients of that city, such things as prove him innocent: and so shall they receive him, and give him a place to dwell in.5And when the avenger of blood shall pursue him, they shall not deliver him into his hands, because he slew his neighbour unawares, and is not proved to have been his enemy two or three days before,… Cross References Joshua 20:3 That whosoever shall kill a person unawares may flee to them, and may escape the wrath of the kinsman, who is the avenger of blood. Ruth 4:1 Then Booz went up to the gate, and sat there. And when he had seen the kinsman going by, of whom he had spoken before, he said to him, calling him by his name: Turn aside for a little while, and sit down here. He turned aside, and sat down. Job 5:4 His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them. Jeremiah 38:7 Now Abdemelech the Ethiopian, an eunuch that was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon: but the king was sitting in the gate of Benjamin. Lexicon When someone fleesוְנָ֞ס (wə·nās) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 5127: To flit, vanish away to אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to one אַחַ֣ת ׀ (’a·ḥaṯ) Number - feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 259: United, one, first of these הָאֵ֗לֶּה (hā·’êl·leh) Article | Pronoun - common plural Strong's Hebrew 428: These, those cities, מֵהֶעָרִ֣ים (mê·he·‘ā·rîm) Preposition-m, Article | Noun - feminine plural Strong's Hebrew 5892: Excitement stands וְעָמַד֙ (wə·‘ā·maḏ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 5975: To stand, in various relations at the entrance פֶּ֚תַח (pe·ṯaḥ) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's Hebrew 6607: An opening, door, entrance way of the gate שַׁ֣עַר (ša·‘ar) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's Hebrew 8179: An opening, door, gate of the city, הָעִ֔יר (hā·‘îr) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 5892: Excitement and states וְדִבֶּ֛ר (wə·ḏib·ber) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue his case דְּבָרָ֑יו (də·ḇā·rāw) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause before [its] elders, זִקְנֵ֥י־ (ziq·nê) Adjective - masculine plural construct Strong's Hebrew 2205: Old they are to bring וְאָסְפ֨וּ (wə·’ā·sə·p̄ū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural Strong's Hebrew 622: To gather for, any purpose, to receive, take away, remove him into the city הָעִ֙ירָה֙ (hā·‘î·rāh) Article | Noun - feminine singular | third person feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 5892: Excitement and give וְנָתְנוּ־ (wə·nā·ṯə·nū-) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural Strong's Hebrew 5414: To give, put, set him a place מָק֖וֹם (mā·qō·wm) Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 4725: A standing, a spot, a condition to live וְיָשַׁ֥ב (wə·yā·šaḇ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry among them. עִמָּֽם׃ (‘im·mām) Preposition | third person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 5973: With, equally with Additional Translations When someone flees to one of these cities, stands at the entrance of the gate of the city, and states his case before its elders, they are to bring him into the city and give him a place to live among them.And when he that does flee to one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city to them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them. And he shall flee unto one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them. And he shall flee unto one of those cities and stand at the entrance of the city-gate, and shall declare his matter in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them. And he shall flee unto one of those cities, and shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them. And when he that doth flee to one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city to them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them. He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them. When one hath fled unto one of these cities, and hath stood at the opening of the gate of the city, and hath spoken in the ears of the elders of that city his matter, then they have gathered him into the city unto them, and have given to him a place, and he hath dwelt with them. 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