(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
Joshua 20:7–9, “And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah. 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. These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.”
When the Lord God makes promises there is always substance to His answers. He had promised that there would be cities of refuge for a person who accidentally killed another person but, here, we discover that He did in fact keep that promise and the cities are named. When this record was first written any reader could actually go to those places and verify that they were really cities of refuge.
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