Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
How much more when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house on his own bed! So now, should I not require his blood from your hands and wipe you off the earth?”
New American Standard Bible
How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now
King James Version
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?
International Standard Version
How much worse will it be, then, when evil men kill an innocent man on his own bed in his own house! Shouldn't I avenge his blood which you are responsible for shedding by removing you from the earth?"
A Conservative Version
How much more, when evil men have slain a righteous man in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
American Standard Version
How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
Amplified
How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous and just man in his own house on his bed, shall I not require his blood from your hand and remove you from the earth?”
Bible in Basic English
How much more, when evil men have put an upright person to death, in his house, sleeping on his bed, will I take payment from you for his blood, and have you cut off from the earth?
Darby Translation
how much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? and should I not now demand his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
Julia Smith Translation
Much more when wicked men killed a just man in his house upon his bed; and now shall I not seek out his blood from your hand and take you away from the earth?
King James 2000
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?
Lexham Expanded Bible
{How much more} when wicked men kill a righteous man in his house, on his bed! So then, shall I not seek his lifeblood from your hand, so that I may destroy you from the earth?"
Modern King James verseion
Indeed 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?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And how much more ought I to deal with wicked men that have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? Now therefore think ye that I will not require his blood of your hands and take you from the earth?"
NET Bible
Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth?"
New Heart English Bible
How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?"
The Emphasized Bible
how much more, when, lawless men, have slain a righteous person, in his own house, upon his bed? -- Now, therefore, must I not require his blood at your hands, and so consume you, out of the earth?
Webster
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?
World English Bible
How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?"
Youngs Literal Translation
Also -- when wicked men have slain the righteous man in his own house, on his bed; and now, do not I require his blood of your hand, and have taken you away from the earth?'
Themes
Assassination » David's abhorrence of
Government » Monarchical » By david
Homicide » Instances of the punishment of murderers » The murderer of ish-bosheth
Ish-bosheth » Avenged by david
Kings » Often exercised power arbitrarily
Rechab » Son of rimmon » Murders ish-bosheth, son of saul; put to death by david
Topics
Interlinear
Harag
Bayith
Baqash
Yad
References
Hastings
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Samuel 4:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ish-Bosheth Is Assassinated
10
when the person told me, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ he thought he was a bearer of good news, but I seized him and put him to death at Ziklag.
Cross References
Psalm 9:12
for bloodshed remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
Genesis 9:5-6
I will require the life of every animal
Genesis 4:11
So now you are cursed, alienated, from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood you have shed.
Genesis 6:13
Then God said to Noah, “I have decided to put an end to every creature, for the earth is filled with wickedness
Genesis 7:23
He wiped out every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, from mankind to livestock, to creatures that crawl, to the birds of the sky, and they were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.
Exodus 9:15
By now I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague, and you would have been obliterated from the earth.
Exodus 21:12
“Whoever strikes a person so that he dies must be put to death.
Numbers 35:31-34
You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of killing someone; he must be put to death.
2 Samuel 3:27
When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside to the middle of the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died in revenge for the death of Asahel,
2 Samuel 3:39
As for me, even though I am the anointed king, I have little power today. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too fierce for me.
1 Kings 2:32
The Lord will bring back his own blood on his head because he struck down two men more righteous and better than he, without my father David’s knowledge. With his sword, Joab murdered Abner
Psalm 109:15
and let Him erase
Proverbs 2:22
and the treacherous uprooted from it.
Proverbs 25:26
is like a muddied spring or a polluted well.
Jeremiah 10:11
You are to say this to them, “The gods that did not make the heavens
Habakkuk 1:4
and justice never emerges.
For the wicked restrict
therefore, justice
Habakkuk 1:12
My Holy One,
Lord, You appointed them to execute judgment;
my Rock,
1 John 3:12
unlike Cain,