Cross references

Joshua 20:2

“Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,

Joshua 20:2 BSB

Joshua 20:2 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Deuteronomy 19:2–13 (6 votes) and Numbers 35:6 (5 votes). 6 other verses point back to it. It links with 5 other books, from Exodus 21 to Hebrews 6.

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  1. then you are to set apart for yourselves three cities within the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess. You are to build roads for yourselves and divide into three regions the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that any manslayer can flee to these cities. …

  2. Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities.

  3. designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there. You are to have these cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands trial before the assembly. …

  4. Then Moses set aside three cities across the Jordan to the east to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities: …

  5. Romans 8:13 votes

    Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

  6. If, however, he did not lie in wait, but God allowed it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee. But if a man schemes and acts willfully against his neighbor to kill him, you must take him away from My altar to be put to death.

  7. Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.

  8. Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged. We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,

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