CITY OF REFUGE
“Then you shall appoint cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person accidentally may flee there” – Numbers 35:11
If an accident occurs between two vehicles and it results in the death of one of the passengers in one of the vehicles; it is most likely that the driver who caused the accident would not be allowed to go; if the driver isn’t drunk and maybe the accident even occurred as a result of a bad road or some negligence of the government; the person who ‘caused’ the accident (the person driving); would be accused of murder. No one will excuse him or her, they would just say things and before anything whatsoever, the driver has landed in prison and such is the way things have turned out in our days.
The city of refuge was God’s bailout to anyone who committed manslaughter or killed as a result of self-defense; the city of refuge was the escape route so as not to die undeservedly due...