Verse 4

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.

Referenced Verses

• Jer 38:7 : 7 Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin,)
• Ruth 4:1-2 : 1 Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. 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.
• Job 5:4 : 4 His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:
• Job 29:7 : 7 When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,
• Ps 26:9 : 9 Gather not my soul with sinners, Nor my life with men of blood;
• Prov 31:23 : 23 Her husband is known in the gates, When he sitteth among the elders of the land.
• Heb 6:18 : 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us: