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 repay him for his bloodshed because, without my father David's consent he attacked and murdered two men more righteous and better than he, Ner's son Abner, the commander of Israel's army and Jether's son Amasa, commander of Judah's army.

A muddied spring or a polluted well that's what a righteous person is who compromises with the wicked.

Therefore, the Law has become paralyzed, and justice never comes about. Because criminals outnumber the righteous, whenever judgments are issued, they come out crooked."

Do not be like Cain, who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because what he was doing was evil and his brother's actions were righteous.

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When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab brought him aside within the gateway to talk to him alone and then stabbed him in the abdomen. So he died for shedding the blood of Joab's brother Asahel.

Also, I will certainly demand an accounting regarding bloodshed, from every animal and from every human being. I'll demand an accounting from every human being for the life of another human being.

"Whoever strikes a man so that he dies is certainly to be put to death.

You are to receive no ransom for the life of a killer who is guilty of murder; instead, he is to die.

As an avenger of blood, he remembers them; he has not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.

From

Now you're more cursed than the ground, which has opened to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

So God announced to Noah, "I've decided to destroy every living thing on earth, because it has become filled with violence due to them. Look! I'm about to annihilate them, along with the earth.

All existing creatures that had lived on the surface of the ground were annihilated, from humans to livestock, from crawling creatures to birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah remained, along with those who were with him in the ark.

Indeed, by now I could have sent forth my hand and struck you and your people with a plague, and you would have been destroyed from the earth.

May what they have done be continually in the LORD's presence; and may their memory be excised from the earth.

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

Tell this to them: "The gods who didn't make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from these heavens."

General references

"Have I rejoiced in the destruction of those who hate me, or have I been happy that evil caught up with him?