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

Require

Psalm 9:12

From

Jeremiah 10:11

General references

Job 31:29

Bible References

When wicked

Yahweh will return his blood on his head, because he fell upon two men, more righteous and better than he, and he killed them with the sword, even though my father did not know it; [namely] Abner son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

[Like] a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is the righteous who gives way before the wicked.

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice does not go forth perpetually. For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.

not as Cain, who was of the evil one and violently murdered his brother. And {for what reason} did he violently murder him? Because his deeds were evil and the [deeds] of his brother [were] righteous.

Require

When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside to the middle of the gate to speak with him in private. Then he struck him in the stomach there and he died, {for he had shed the blood of Asahel his brother}.

And {your lifeblood} I will require; from {every animal} I will require it. And from the hand of humankind, from the hand of [each] man to his brother I will require the life of humankind.

" '{Whoever strikes someone} and he dies will surely be put to death.

Also, you will not take a ransom payment for the life of a killer who [is] guilty of death; indeed, he must surely be put to death.

for he [who] {avenges bloodshed} remembers them. He does not forget the distressed cry of [the] afflicted.

From

So now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive the blood of your brother from your hand.

And God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh [has] come before me, for the earth was filled [with] violence because of them. Now, look, I [am going] to destroy them [along] with the earth.

And he blotted out every living thing upon the surface of the ground, from humankind, to animals, to creeping things, and to the birds of heaven; they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah and those who [were] with him in the ark remained.

For now I could have stretched out my hand, and I could have struck you and your people with the plague, and you would have perished from the earth.

Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from [the] earth,

And those who are wicked will be cut off from the land, and those who are treacherous will be uprooted from it.

"{Thus} you shall say to them, 'Gods who did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under these heavens.

General references

"If I have rejoiced at [the] ruin of [the one who] hated me or have exulted when evil overtook him--