Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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?

General references

Bible References

When wicked

1 Kings 2:32
And LORD will return his blood upon his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David did not know it, [namely], Abner the son of Ner, captain of the a
Proverbs 25:26
A troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring, [is] a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.
Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law is slacked, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked man surrounds the righteous man, therefore justice goes forth perverted.
1 John 3:12
Not as Cain. He was of the wicked, and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were wrong, and his brother's right.

Require

2 Samuel 3:27
And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
Genesis 9:5
And surely your blood, [the blood] of your lives, I will require. At the hand of every beast I will require it. And at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.
Exodus 21:12
He who smites a man, so that he dies, shall surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:31
Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death.
Psalm 9:12
For he who makes inquiry for blood remembers them. He does not forget the cry of the poor.

From

Genesis 4:11
And now cursed are thou from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.
Genesis 6:13
And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them, and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Genesis 7:23
And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, from man, to cattle, to creeping things, and birds of the heavens, and they were destroyed from the earth. And only Noah was left, and those who were with h
Exodus 9:15
For now I have put forth my hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou have been cut off from the earth.
Psalm 109:15
Let them be before LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth,
Proverbs 2:22
But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.
Jeremiah 10:11
Thus ye shall say to them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.

General references

Job 31:29
if I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him