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six Levitical cities specially chosen for refuge to the involuntary homicide until released from banishment by the death of the high priest. (
Numbers 35:6
Numbers 35:13
Numbers 35:15
;
Joshua 20:2
Joshua 20:7
Joshua 20:9
) There were three on each side of Jordan.
KEDESH
, in Naphtali. (
1 Chronicles 6:76
)
SHECHEM
, in Mount Ephraim. (
Joshua 21:21
;
1 Chronicles 6:67
;
2 Chronicles 10:1
)
HEBRON
, in Judah. (
Joshua 21:13
;
2 Samuel 5:5
;
1 Chronicles 6:55
;
29:27
;
2 Chronicles 11:10
)
On the east side of Jordan -
BEZER
, in the tribe of Reuben, in the plains of Moab. (
4:43
;
Joshua 20:8
;
21:36
) 1Macc. 5:26.
RAMOTH-GILEAD, in the tribe of Gad. (
4:43
;
Joshua 21:38
;
1 Kings 22:3
)
GOLAN
, in Bashan, in the half-tribe of Manasseh. (
4:43
;
Joshua 21:27
;
1 Chronicles 6:71
)