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3 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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- Deuteronomy 4:41–43ISBE
¶ Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising; That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live: Namely,…
- Joshua 20:8ISBE
And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
- 2 Samuel 11:16ISBE
And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 3 references
a-sin (nathan, "to give," or "grant," i.e. apportion): Used (Jos 20:8) of Moses setting apart Bezer as one of the three cities of refuge on the East of the Jordan (compare De 4:41-43); also of Joab's stationing Uriah in a place of mortal peril in battle (2Sa 11:16).
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.