That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
Proverbs
WisdomHe that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesIt is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Matthew
GospelsThat all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
John
GospelsFlee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahMoreover the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that lieth out.
Nehemiah
HistoryTherefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAll in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for there is peace to thee, and no hurt; as the LORD liveth.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Genesis
LawAnd the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahIf a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.