Deuteronomy 19:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

You shall set apart three cities for yourself in the midst of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess.

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  • Exod 21:13 : 13 However, if he did not lie in wait, but God delivered him into his hand, then I will appoint a place for you where he may flee.
  • Heb 6:18 : 18 That by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us:
  • Num 35:10-15 : 10 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you cross over Jordan into the land of Canaan; 11 Then you shall appoint cities for yourselves to be cities of refuge; that the slayer may flee there, who kills any person accidentally. 12 And they shall be for you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer may not die, until he stands before the congregation in judgment. 13 And of these cities which you shall give, you shall have six cities for refuge. 14 You shall give three cities on this side of Jordan, and three cities shall you give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge. 15 These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the traveler among them: that anyone who kills any person accidentally may flee there.
  • Deut 4:41-43 : 41 Then Moses set apart three cities on this side of Jordan toward the sunrise; 42 That the slayer might flee there, who should kill his neighbor unintentionally, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live: 43 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, on the plain land of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.
  • Josh 20:2-7 : 2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Set apart cities of refuge for yourselves, of which I spoke to you through Moses: 3 That the slayer who kills any person unintentionally and unknowingly may flee there: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood. 4 And when he who flees to one of those cities shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and shall declare his case 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. 5 And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they shall not deliver the slayer into his hand because he struck his neighbor unintentionally and did not hate him beforehand. 6 And he shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then the slayer shall return to his own city and to his own house, to the city from which he fled. 7 And they designated Kedesh in Galilee in the mountain of Naphtali, and Shechem in the mountain of Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.

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  • Deut 19:7-14
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    90%

    7Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for yourself.

    8And if the LORD your God enlarges your border, as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which He promised to give to your fathers;

    9If you keep all these commandments to do them, which I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to walk always in His ways, then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three;

    10That innocent blood may not be shed in your land, which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and thus blood guilt be upon you.

    11But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and flees into one of these cities;

    12Then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, so that he may die.

    13Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

    14You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess.

  • Deut 19:3
    89%

    3You shall prepare a road for yourself, and divide the territory of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to inherit, into three parts, so that every manslayer may flee there.

  • Deut 19:1
    81%

    1When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and houses;

  • Num 35:11-15
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    11Then you shall appoint cities for yourselves to be cities of refuge; that the slayer may flee there, who kills any person accidentally.

    12And they shall be for you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer may not die, until he stands before the congregation in judgment.

    13And of these cities which you shall give, you shall have six cities for refuge.

    14You shall give three cities on this side of Jordan, and three cities shall you give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.

    15These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the traveler among them: that anyone who kills any person accidentally may flee there.

  • Deut 4:41-43
    3 verses
    77%

    41Then Moses set apart three cities on this side of Jordan toward the sunrise;

    42That the slayer might flee there, who should kill his neighbor unintentionally, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

    43Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, on the plain land of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.

  • Deut 20:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    15Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

    16But of the cities of these people, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes:

  • Deut 21:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1If someone is found slain in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, lying in the field, and it is not known who has slain him,

    2Then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him that is slain;

  • Josh 20:2-4
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    2Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Set apart cities of refuge for yourselves, of which I spoke to you through Moses:

    3That the slayer who kills any person unintentionally and unknowingly may flee there: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

    4And when he who flees to one of those cities shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and shall declare his case 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.

  • Num 35:5-9
    5 verses
    74%

    5And measure from outside the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.

    6And among the cities which you shall give to the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which you shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee there: and to them you shall add forty-two cities.

    7So all the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities: these shall you give with their suburbs.

    8And the cities which you shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have many you shall give many; but from them that have few you shall give few: everyone shall give of his cities to the Levites according to his inheritance which he inherits.

    9And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 35:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and give to the Levites suburbs for the cities around them as well.

    3And the cities they shall have to dwell in, and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.

  • Josh 20:9
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    9These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger residing among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands before the congregation.

  • Deut 12:29
    72%

    29When the LORD your God cuts off the nations from before you, where you go to dispossess them, and you take their place and dwell in their land;

  • Deut 3:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19But your wives, your little ones, and your livestock (for I know that you have much livestock), shall remain in your cities which I have given you;

    20Until the LORD gives rest to your brethren, as He has to you, and they also possess the land the LORD your God has given them beyond the Jordan; then each of you may return to the possession I have given you.

  • Josh 21:3
    71%

    3And the children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, at the command of the LORD, these cities and their suburbs.

  • Ezek 47:21
    71%

    21So shall you divide this land among you according to the tribes of Israel.

  • Deut 6:10
    71%

    10And it shall be, when the LORD your God has brought you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you great and good cities, which you did not build,

  • Deut 16:20
    71%

    20That which is altogether just you shall follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.

  • Josh 18:4-6
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    71%

    4Select three men from each tribe, and I will send them. They shall rise and go through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance, and return to me.

    5They shall divide it into seven parts. Judah shall remain in their territory on the south, and the house of Joseph shall remain in their territory on the north.

    6You shall therefore describe the land into seven parts and bring the description here to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.

  • Josh 20:7
    70%

    7And they designated Kedesh in Galilee in the mountain of Naphtali, and Shechem in the mountain of Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.

  • Josh 23:4
    70%

    4Behold, I have allotted to you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea westward.

  • Josh 21:32
    70%

    32And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammothdor with its suburbs, and Kartan with its suburbs; three cities.

  • Deut 13:12
    70%

    12If you shall hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God has given you to dwell there, saying,

  • Num 34:2
    69%

    2Command the children of Israel and say to them, 'When you come into the land of Canaan, (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with its borders:)

  • Deut 6:19
    69%

    19To cast out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.

  • Deut 16:18
    69%

    18Judges and officers you shall make for yourself in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.