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Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them to you, and you can do to them as you please. But do not do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”

Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.

Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,

For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.

…to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:

The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply around you.

If, however, a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait, attacks him and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities,

So these descendants of Rapha in Gath fell at the hands of David and his servants.