Dict: smith - CITIES OF REFUGE

CITIES OF REFUGE - C>@ - six Levitical cities specially chosen for refuge to the involuntary homicide until released from banishment by the death of the high priest. kjv@Numbers:35:6 kjv@Numbers:35:13-15 kjv@Joshua:20:2 kjv@Joshua:20:7-9) There were three on each side of Jordan. KEDESH, in Naphtali. ( kjv@1Chronicles:6:76) SHECHEM, in Mount Ephraim. kjv@Joshua:21:21; kjv@1Chronicles:6:67; kjv@2Chronicles:10:1) HEBRON, in Judah. kjv@Joshua:21:13; 2 Samuel kjv@5:5; 1Chronicles:6:55 kjv@1Chronicles:29:27; kjv@2Chronicles:11:10) On the east side of Jordan
- BEZER IN THE WILDERNESS, in the tribe of Reuben, in the plains of Moab. (4:43; kjv@Joshua:20:8 kjv@Joshua:21:36) 1Macc. kjv@5:26. RAMOTH

- GILEAD, in the tribe of Gad. (4:43; kjv@Joshua:21:38; kjv@Kings:22:3) GOLAN, in Bashan, in the half-tribe of Manasseh. (4:43; kjv@Joshua:21:27; kjv@1Chronicles:6:71)