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旧约 - 约书亚记(Joshua)第20章

Then the LORD said to Joshua:
"Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,
so that anyone who kills a person accidentally and unintentionally may flee there and find protection from the avenger of blood.
"When he flees to one of these cities, he is to stand in the entrance of the city gate and state his case before the elders of that city. Then they are to admit him into their city and give him a place to live with them.
If the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the one accused, because he killed his neighbor unintentionally and without malice aforethought.
He is to stay in that city until he has stood trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest who is serving at that time. Then he may go back to his own home in the town from which he fled."
So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
On the east side of the Jordan of Jericho they designated Bezer in the desert on the plateau in the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead in the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan in the tribe of Manasseh.
Any of the Israelites or any alien living among them who killed someone accidentally could flee to these designated cities and not be killed by the avenger of blood prior to standing trial before the assembly.
约书亚记第二十章   第 20 章 

  书 20:1-6> 神很重视设立“逃城”之事,为什么? 

  20:1-6 这个新民族在新土地上扎根,从此需要一个新的政府。神在多年前就告诉摩西,新政府将来要怎样治理百姓。进入迦南地以后,神所命定的工作之中,有一项是要选定几座“逃城”。这些城邑散布在应许之地全境,目的是防止有不公平的事,尤其是报仇的事随便发生。譬如有人误杀了人,他就可以逃到逃城,得享安全,等候公平的裁决。利未人负责管理逃城,以确保神公平与公义的原则得以实现(逃城的详情,请参民 35:6 ; 35:11-28 的注释)。 

  逃城──《灵修版圣经注释》