“So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechemin the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.  East of the Jordan (on the other side from Jericho) they designated Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau in the tribe of Reuben, […]

So let’s get our bearings of where we’re at in our discussion of the 6 Cities of Refuge. The last time we met, we talked about two kinds of righteousness. One kind was the earthly or physical type of righteousness that one attained through obeying the Law and having one’s sins atoned for via the […]

Let’s continue on with our discussion from yesterday about the relationship between spilled human blood and atonement. So we’ve established that once human blood is spilled (whether intentional or unintentional), it pollutes the Promised Land requiring a remedy for the defilement. And this is where we ran headfirst into the Scriptural principle that the only […]

According to the official definition provided in the Book of Numbers and Joshua, a person who killed another human being is only allowed to flee to a sanctuary city if… …it was done accidentally without malice or any pre-planning. …it was done in self-defense because the person’s life was in danger. Or it was… …caused […]

I finished yesterday’s post by pointing out how tribalism and the avenging of the death of a family member by another family member was not only a universal custom in ancient times, but something that’s still quite common today in a good majority of the world. I gather quite a few of you were surprised at […]