Refuge Of

Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of Refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.

And of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye have for Refuge.

Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of Refuge.

These six cities shall be a Refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.

• Anointing

And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his Refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.

But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his Refuge, whither he was fled;

And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his Refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:

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.

And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his Refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of Refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:

That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your Refuge from the avenger of blood.

Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron with her suburbs, to be a city of Refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with her suburbs,

For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, to be a city of Refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,

And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the other half tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, to be a city of Refuge for the slayer; and Beeshterah with her suburbs; two cities.

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

And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, to be a city of Refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs,

• Horn
• Shield
• Tower

The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my Refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.

And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of Refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,

And they gave unto them, of the cities of Refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also Gezer with her suburbs,

The LORD also will be a Refuge for the oppressed, a Refuge in times of trouble.

Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his Refuge.

{To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.} God is our Refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our Refuge. Selah.

The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our Refuge. Selah.

{To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave.} Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my Refuge, until these calamities be overpast.

• Rising

But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and Refuge in the day of my trouble.

In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my Refuge, is in God.

• Fort

I will say of the LORD, He is my Refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my Refuge.

I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my Refuge and my portion in the land of the living.

In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of Refuge.

And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of Refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.

For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a Refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

• Security

Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the Refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

• Inherit
• Vanity

O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my Refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.