Yosua 20:4

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Apabila ia melarikan diri ke salah satu kota tadi, maka haruslah ia tinggal berdiri di depan pintu gerbang kota dan memberitahukan perkaranya kepada para tua-tua kota. Mereka harus menerima dia dalam kota itu dan memberikan tempat kepadanya, dan ia akan diam pada mereka.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Apabila ia melarikan diri ke salah satu kota tadi, maka haruslah ia tinggal berdiri di depan pintu gerbang kota dan memberitahukan perkaranya kepada para tua-tua kota. Mereka harus menerima dia dalam kota itu dan memberikan tempat kepadanya, dan ia akan diam pada mereka.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka jikalau orang itu lari kepada salah sebuah negeri ini, hendaklah ia tinggal berdiri pada pintu gerbang negeri itu, dan memberitahu segala hal ihwalnya kepada tua-tua negeri itu, lalu hendaklah mereka itu menyambut akan orang itu ke dalam negeri dan memberikan tempat kedudukan kepadanya.

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lorde also spake vnto Iosuah, saying: ² Speake to the children of Israel, and saye: Appoint out fro amog you cities of refuge, wherof I spake vnto you by the hande of Moyses: ³ That the slear that kylleth any person vnwares and vnwyttyngly, may flee thyther: And those cities shall be your refuge from the auenger of blood. ⁴ And he that doth flee vnto one of those cities, shall stande at the entryng of the gate of the citie, & shall shewe his cause in the eares of the elders of the citie: And they shall take him into the citie vnto them, and geue hym a place, that he may dwell among them. ⁵ And if the auenger of blood folow after him, they shall not deliuer the slear into his hand: because he smote his friend ignorauntly, and hated him not before tyme. ⁶ And he shall dwell in the sayd citie vntyl he stande before the congregation in iudgement, or vntyll the death of the hye priest that shall be in those dayes: for then shall the slear returne, and come vnto his owne citie, and vnto his owne house, and vnto the citie from whence he fled.

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

Cross-References

Genesis 19:24
Then the Lorde rayned vpon Sodome and Gomorrhe brymstone and fire, from the Lorde out of heauen:

Genesis 20:6
And God sayde vnto him in a dreame: I wote well that thou dyddest it in the singlenesse of thy heart: I kept thee also that thou shuldest not sinne against me, and therefore suffred I thee not to touche her.

Genesis 20:17
And so Abraham prayed vnto God, & God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maydens, & they bare chyldren.

Genesis 20:18
For the Lorde had closed vp all the wombes of the house of Abimelech, because of Abrahams wyfe.

2 Samuel 4:11
Howe much more when wicked men haue slayne a righteous person in his owne house and vpon his bed? Shal I not nowe therfore require his blood of your hande, & take you from the earth?

1 Chronicles 21:17
And Dauid sayde vnto God: Is it not I that commaunded the people to be numbred? It is I that haue sinned and done euyll in deede: and what haue these sheepe done? Let thyne hande O Lorde my God be on me, and on my fathers house: but not on thy people, that they shoulde be punished.

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.