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

And the Lord will send back his blood on his head, because of the attack he made on two men more upright and better than himself, putting them to the sword without my father's knowledge; even Abner, the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

Like a troubled fountain and a dirty spring, is an upright man who has to give way before evil-doers.

For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted.

Not being of the Evil One like Cain, who put his brother to death. And why did he put him to death? Because his works were evil and his brother's works were good.

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And when Abner was back in Hebron, Joab took him on one side by the doorway of the town to have a word with him quietly, and there he gave him a wound in the stomach, causing his death in payment for the death of his brother Asahel.

And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man.

He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.

Further, no price may be given for the life of one who has taken life and whose right reward is death: he is certainly to be put to death.

When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.

From

And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand;

And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.

Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.

For if I had put the full weight of my hand on you and your people, you would have been cut off from the earth:

Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.

But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.

This is what you are to say to them: The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth will be cut off from the earth and from under the heavens.

General references

If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;