Deuteronomy 19:12
The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.
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- 1 Kgs 2:5-6 : 5 “You know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me– how he murdered two commanders of the Israelite armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. During peacetime he struck them down like he would in battle; when he shed their blood as if in battle, he stained the belt on his waist and the sandals on his feet. 6 Do to him what you think is appropriate, but don’t let him live long and die a peaceful death.
- 1 Kgs 2:28-34 : 28 When the news reached Joab(for Joab had supported Adonijah, although he had not supported Absalom), he ran to the tent of the LORD and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. 29 When King Solomon heard that Joab had run to the tent of the LORD and was right there beside the altar, he ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada,“Go, strike him down.” 30 When Benaiah arrived at the tent of the LORD, he said to him,“The king says,‘Come out!’” But he replied,“No, I will die here!” So Benaiah sent word to the king and reported Joab’s reply. 31 The king told him,“Do as he said! Strike him down and bury him. Take away from me and from my father’s family the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds. 32 May the LORD punish him for the blood he shed; behind my father David’s back he struck down and murdered with the sword two men who were more innocent and morally upright than he– Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army. 33 May Joab and his descendants be perpetually guilty of their shed blood, but may the LORD give perpetual peace to David, his descendants, his family, and his dynasty.” 34 So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up and executed Joab; he was buried at his home in the wilderness.
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- Deut 19:10-112 verses86%
10You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.
11However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.
- Deut 19:4-63 verses84%
4Now this is the law pertaining to one who flees there in order to live, if he has accidentally killed another without hating him at the time of the accident.
5Suppose he goes with someone else to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose from the handle and strikes his fellow worker so hard that he dies. The person responsible may then flee to one of these cities to save himself.
6Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him, and kill him, though this is not a capital case since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.
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13You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.
- Num 35:16-2813 verses83%
16“But if he hits someone with an iron tool so that he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.
17If he strikes him by throwing a stone large enough that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.
18Or if he strikes him with a wooden hand weapon so that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.
19The avenger of blood himself must kill the murderer; when he meets him, he must kill him.
20“But if he strikes him out of hatred or throws something at him intentionally so that he dies,
21or with enmity he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death, for he is a murderer. The avenger of blood must kill the murderer when he meets him.
22“But if he strikes him suddenly, without enmity, or throws anything at him unintentionally,
23or with any stone large enough that a man could die, without seeing him, and throws it at him, and he dies, even though he was not his enemy nor sought his harm,
24then the community must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these decisions.
25The community must deliver the slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the community must restore him to the town of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the consecrated oil.
26But if the slayer at any time goes outside the boundary of the town to which he had fled,
27and the avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the town of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the slayer, he will not be guilty of blood,
28because the slayer should have stayed in his town of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the slayer may return to the land of his possessions.
- Josh 20:3-64 verses82%
3Anyone who accidentally kills someone can escape there; these cities will be a place of asylum from the avenger of blood.
4The one who committed manslaughter should escape to one of these cities, stand at the entrance of the city gate, and present his case to the leaders of that city. They should then bring him into the city, give him a place to stay, and let him live there.
5When the avenger of blood comes after him, they must not hand over to him the one who committed manslaughter, for he accidentally killed his fellow man without premeditation.
6He must remain in that city until his case is decided by the assembly and the high priest dies. Then the one who committed manslaughter may return home to the city from which he escaped.”
- Exod 21:12-143 verses80%
12Personal Injuries“Whoever strikes someone so that he dies must surely be put to death.
13But if he does not do it with premeditation, but it happens by accident, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.
14But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.
- Num 35:11-122 verses80%
11you must then designate some towns as towns of refuge for you, to which a person who has killed someone unintentionally may flee.
12And they must stand as your towns of refuge from the avenger in order that the killer may not die until he has stood trial before the community.
- Deut 21:1-33 verses79%
1Laws Concerning Unsolved Murder If a homicide victim should be found lying in a field in the land the LORD your God is giving you, and no one knows who killed him,
2your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse.
3Then the elders of the city nearest to the corpse must take from the herd a heifer that has not been worked– that has never pulled with the yoke–
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9Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.
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9These were the cities of refuge appointed for all the Israelites and for resident foreigners living among them. Anyone who accidentally killed someone could escape there and not be executed by the avenger of blood, at least until his case was reviewed by the assembly.
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7The witnesses must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
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19you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
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21Then all the men of his city must stone him to death. In this way you will purge out wickedness from among you, and all Israel will hear about it and be afraid.
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21You must not show pity; the principle will be a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot.
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42Anyone who accidentally killed someone without hating him at the time of the accident could flee to one of those cities and be safe.
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17“‘If a man beats any person to death, he must be put to death.
- Num 35:30-323 verses75%
30“Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be put to death by the testimony of witnesses, but one witness cannot testify against any person to cause him to be put to death.
31Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; he must surely be put to death.
32And you must not accept a ransom for anyone who has fled to a town of refuge, to allow him to return home and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.
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5you must bring to your city gates that man or woman who has done this wicked thing– that very man or woman– and you must stone that person to death.
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17The one who is tormented by the murder of another will flee to the pit; let no one support him.
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24you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated his neighbor’s fiancée; in this way you will purge evil from among you.
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6and all the elders of that city nearest the corpse must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.
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21One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, but one who beats a person to death must be put to death.
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23But if there is serious injury, then you will give a life for a life,
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18The elders of that city must then seize the man and punish him.
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19Anyone who leaves your house will be responsible for his own death– we are innocent in that case! But if anyone with you in the house is harmed, we will be responsible.