Deuteronomy 19:5

If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.

Cross References (4)

  • Proverbs 27:12 (2)

    The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.

  • Isaiah 32:2 (2)

    Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow

  • Numbers 35:25 (2)

    The assembly is to protect the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the

  • 2 Kings 6:5–7 (2)

    As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axe head fell into the water. “Oh, my master,” he cried out, “it was bo