Quotes About Safety

and the avenger of blood finds him outside of his city of refuge and kills him, then the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed

because the manslayer must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may he return to the land he owns.

Nor should you accept a ransom for the person who flees to a city of refuge and allow him to return and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.

But your wives, your children, and your livestock—I know that you have much livestock—may remain in the cities I have given you,

then you are to set apart for yourselves three cities within the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.

This is why I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.

If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.

When he found her in the field, the betrothed woman cried out, but there was no one to save her.

He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.

So the king of Jericho sent to Rahab and said, “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, for they have come to spy out the whole land.”

But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from.

(But Rahab had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had laid out there.)

Before the spies lay down for the night, Rahab went up on the roof

“Go to the hill country,” she said, “so that your pursuers will not find you. Hide yourselves there for three days until they have returned; then go on your way.”

If anyone goes out the door of your house into the street, his blood will be on his own head, and we will be innocent. But if a hand is laid on anyone with you in the house, his blood will be on our heads.

So the spies went out into the hill country and stayed there three days, until their pursuers had returned without finding them, having searched all along the road.

So the young spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother and brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and settled them outside the camp of Israel.

The whole army returned safely to Joshua in the camp at Makkedah, and no one dared to utter a word against the Israelites.

“Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,

so that anyone who kills another unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

When someone flees to one of these cities, stands at the entrance of the city gate, and states his case before its elders, they are to bring him into the city and give him a place to live among them.

Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the manslayer into his hand, because that man killed his neighbor accidentally without prior malice.

they were given Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Gezer,