Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
Job
Wisdom / JobThen Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovah-shalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
Judges
HistoryBut I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThe watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd after him repaired the priests, the men of the plain.
Nehemiah
HistoryThey reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.
Joshua
HistoryBut if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWhen Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.
Mark
GospelsThou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThey are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.
Numbers
Law / MosesBehold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielDo unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
Proverbs
WisdomAnd they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsKnow therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThat hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWhen Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?