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Jos 20:4 — And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

at the entering		Rth 4:1,2; Job 5:4; Job 29:7; Pro 31:23; Jer 38:7
take		Psa 26:9
that he may		Hbr 6:18

Correlating Passages

at the entering

	Rth 4:1	Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.
	Rth 4:2	And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.
	Job 5:4	His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [them].
	Job 29:7	When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I prepared my seat in the street!
	Pro 31:23	Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
	Jer 38:7	Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;

take

Psa 26:9

Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:

that he may

Hbr 6:18

That by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

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Scott, Thomas. "Joshua 20:4," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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