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La Biblia de las Americas

Josué 20:4

"Huirá a una de estas ciudades, se presentará a la entrada de la puerta de la ciudad y expondrá su caso a oídos de los ancianos de la ciudad; éstos lo llevarán con ellos dentro de la ciudad y le darán un lugar para que habite en medio de ellos.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Avenger of Blood;   Communion;   Court;   Gates;   Government;   Homicide;   Refuge;   Thompson Chain Reference - Gates;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Cities of Refuge;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - City of refuge;   Ruler;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Land (of Israel);   Motives;   Murder;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Blood;   Gate;   Judges;   Pentateuch;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Avenger;   Blood;   Cities and Urban Life;   Cities of Refuge;   Court Systems;   Joshua, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Refuge, Cities of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Elder (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gate;   Refuge, Cities of;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Refuge;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gate;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Refuge;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cruel;   Dwell;   Elder in the Old Testament;   Goel;   Homicide;   Joshua (2);   Joshua, Book of;   Refuge, Cities of;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Blood-revenge;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Avenger of Blood;   Elder;   Gate;  

Parallel Translations

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Y el que se acogiere � alguna de aquellas ciudades, presentar�se � la puerta de la ciudad, y dir� sus causas, oy�ndolo los ancianos de aquella ciudad: y ellos le recibir�n consigo dentro de la ciudad, y le dar�n lugar que habite con ellos.
La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Y el que se refugiare a alguna de aquellas ciudades, se presentar� a la puerta de la ciudad, y dir� sus causas, oy�ndolo los ancianos de aquella ciudad: y ellos le recibir�n consigo dentro de la ciudad, y le dar�n lugar que habite con ellos.
Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Y el que se acogiere a alguna de aquellas ciudades, se presentar� a la puerta de la ciudad, y dir� sus causas, oy�ndolo los ancianos de aquella ciudad; y ellos le recibir�n consigo dentro de la ciudad, y le dar�n lugar que habite con ellos.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

at the entering: Ruth 4:1, Ruth 4:2, Job 5:4, Job 29:7, Proverbs 31:23, Jeremiah 38:7

take: Psalms 26:9

that he may: Hebrews 6:18

Reciprocal: Exodus 33:21 - place by Numbers 35:12 - until he stand Joshua 20:9 - until he stood

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities,.... Any one of them, that was nearest to him:

shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city; for he might not rush in without leave:

and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city; lay before them the whole matter, how that he had killed a person unawares, by what means it came about, and that it was merely through error, without any malicious design, and was a mere accident:

they shall take him into the city unto them; directly, lest the avenger of blood should come and seize on him, and kill him; and they were to take him into the city, not only to prevent that, but to examine him still more closely about the matter, and get further satisfaction; and being satisfied, were to continue him in it:

and give him a place, that he might dwell among them; until his death, or the death of the high priest, if that was first. Kimchi observes from their Rabbins, the he was not to hire a house all the time of his dwelling there, but was to have one freely, because it is said, "and give him", &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As soon as the manslayer presented himself at the city of refuge, the elders of the city were to hold an inquiry, and receive him provisionally into the city. Afterward, when the avenger of blood should have tracked his victim to the city, and appear to claim him, a more formal and thorough investigation Joshua 20:6 was to be made. Consult the marginal references.


 
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