2 Samuel 4:11

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Summary

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

When wicked

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Psalm 9:12

From

Jeremiah 10:11

General references

Job 31:29

Bible References

When wicked

The Lord will return his blood on his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he and killed them with the sword, while my father David did not know it: Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

Like a trampled spring and a polluted well
Is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

Therefore the law is ignored
And justice is never upheld.
For the wicked surround the righteous;
Therefore justice comes out perverted.

not as Cain, who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.

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So when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he struck him in the belly so that he died on account of the blood of Asahel his brother.

Surely I will require

your lifeblood;

from every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man’s brother I will require the life of man.

“He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.

Moreover, you shall not take ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death.

For He who requires blood remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

From

Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.

Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.

For if by now I had put forth My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, you would then have been cut off from the earth.

Let them be before the Lord continually,
That He may cut off their memory from the earth;

But the wicked will be cut off from the land
And the treacherous will be uprooted from it.

Thus you shall say to them, “The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.”

General references

“Have I rejoiced at the extinction of my enemy,
Or exulted when evil befell him?