2 Samuel 4:11

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?

When wicked

Require

Psalm 9:12

From

Jeremiah 10:11

General references

Job 31:29

Bible References

When wicked

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 son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.

A righteous person who yields to the wicked
is like a muddied spring or a polluted well.

This is why the law is ineffective
and justice never emerges.
For the wicked restrict the righteous;
therefore, justice comes out perverted.

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.

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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, Joab’s brother.

I will require the life of every animal and every man for your life and your blood. I will require the life of each man’s brother for a man’s life.

“Whoever strikes a person so that he dies must be put to death.

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.

For the One who seeks an accounting
for bloodshed remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

From

So now you are cursed, alienated, from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood you have shed.

Then God said to Noah, “I have decided to put an end to every creature, for the earth is filled with wickedness because of them; therefore I am going to destroy them along with the earth.

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.

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.

Let their sins always remain before the Lord,
and let Him erase all memory of them from the earth.

but the wicked will be cut off from the land,
and the treacherous uprooted from it.

You are to say this to them, “The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”

General references

Have I rejoiced over my enemy’s distress,
or become excited when trouble came his way?