“Refuge” has to do with safety, danger, moving from danger to safety, and the fact that the refuge can do what it advertises. Knowing that certain situations could arise in daily life that included the possibility than an innocent person could need refuge prompted Jehovah to tell the Israelites to set aside six cities of refuge, three on each side of the Jordan (see Numbers 35). All of this leads us to understand that God is Himself our refuge—and we are to flee to Him even when we are not innocent!
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