Joshua 20:4

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He came over, and sat down.

Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here,” and they sat down.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge, that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”

Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

that the man slayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

This news came to Joab; for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he didn’t follow Absalom. Joab fled to Yahweh’s Tent, and held onto the horns of the altar.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

For Yahweh says, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, choose the things that please me, and hold fast to my covenant,

There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

(after Jeconiah the king, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths, had departed from Jerusalem),

When he was in Benjamin’s gate, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”

Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king was then sitting in Benjamin’s gate),

They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.

Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

If we are faithless, he remains faithful; for he can’t deny himself.”

As I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’ ”

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the middle of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess.

then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.

found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.

His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness,

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.

Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes.

If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors, she cries aloud:

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

Don’t be envious of evil men, neither desire to be with them;

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin’s gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.

Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

(for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, “The Lord swore and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.’ ”

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

Yahweh also said, “Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock.

The cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the alien who lives among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands trial before the congregation.

Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant.

when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.

You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;

Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.

In God, I will praise his word. In Yahweh, I will praise his word.

I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings.

I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.”

But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.

Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.

A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

Her husband is respected in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.

I will give them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.

You shall tell them, “Yahweh says: ‘If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

Flee! Save your lives! Be like the juniper bush in the wilderness.

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.