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The man who has killed must remain in that town until he has received a public trial and until the death of the high priest then in office. Only then may the man who has killed go back to his own town and his own house, to the town from which he has escaped." (Joshua 20, 6)
After the death of Joshua, the Israelites consulted Yahweh, "Who among us shall be the first to fight against the Canaanites?" (Judges 1, 1)
Zebulun, in turn, has scorned death; Naphtali went up to the battlefield, too. (Judges 5, 18)
After the death of Gideon, the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals and took Baal-Berith as god. (Judges 8, 33)
But he said to me: 'You are to conceive and give birth to a son. Henceforth, you shall not drink wine or fermented drinks, nor eat anything unclean, for your son shall be a Nazirite of God from the womb of his mother until the day of his death'." (Judges 13, 7)
and cried out, "Let me die with the Philistines!" He pushed with all his strength and the house fell upon the chiefs and the people gathered there. Those who joined him in his own death were more than those he had killed during his lifetime. (Judges 16, 30)
Where you die, there will I die and be buried. May Yahweh deal with me severely if anything except death separates us." (Ruth 1, 17)
Boaz answered, "I have been told all about you - what you have done for your mother-in-law since your husband's death, how you have gone with her, leaving your own father and mother and homeland, to live with a people you knew nothing about before you came here. (Ruth 2, 11)
Yahweh is Lord of life and death; he brings down to the grave and raises up. (1 Samuel 2, 6)
Yahweh caused the death of seventy men of Beth-shemesh who had looked at the ark of Yahweh. On seeing this, the people mourned greatly. (1 Samuel 6, 19)
Then the people asked Samuel, "Who are these who said: Saul will never reign over us? Bring the men and we shall put them to death." (1 Samuel 11, 12)
But Saul said, "No man shall be put to death today, for this day Yahweh has saved Israel." (1 Samuel 11, 13)