Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Indeed 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?
New American Standard Bible
How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now
King James Version
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?
Holman Bible
How much more when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house on his own bed! So now, should I not require his blood from your hands and wipe you off the earth?”
International Standard Version
How much worse will it be, then, when evil men kill an innocent man on his own bed in his own house! Shouldn't I avenge his blood which you are responsible for shedding by removing you from the earth?"
A Conservative Version
How much more, when evil men have slain a righteous man in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
American Standard Version
How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
Amplified
How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous and just man in his own house on his bed, shall I not require his blood from your hand and remove you from the earth?”
Bible in Basic English
How much more, when evil men have put an upright person to death, in his house, sleeping on his bed, will I take payment from you for his blood, and have you cut off from the earth?
Darby Translation
how much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? and should I not now demand his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
Julia Smith Translation
Much more when wicked men killed a just man in his house upon his bed; and now shall I not seek out his blood from your hand and take you away from the earth?
King James 2000
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?
Lexham Expanded Bible
{How much more} when wicked men kill a righteous man in his house, on his bed! So then, shall I not seek his lifeblood from your hand, so that I may destroy you from the earth?"
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And how much more ought I to deal with wicked men that have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? Now therefore think ye that I will not require his blood of your hands and take you from the earth?"
NET Bible
Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth?"
New Heart English Bible
How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?"
The Emphasized Bible
how much more, when, lawless men, have slain a righteous person, in his own house, upon his bed? -- Now, therefore, must I not require his blood at your hands, and so consume you, out of the earth?
Webster
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?
World English Bible
How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?"
Youngs Literal Translation
Also -- when wicked men have slain the righteous man in his own house, on his bed; and now, do not I require his blood of your hand, and have taken you away from the earth?'
Themes
Assassination » David's abhorrence of
Government » Monarchical » By david
Homicide » Instances of the punishment of murderers » The murderer of ish-bosheth
Ish-bosheth » Avenged by david
Kings » Often exercised power arbitrarily
Rechab » Son of rimmon » Murders ish-bosheth, son of saul; put to death by david
Topics
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Harag
Bayith
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Samuel 4:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ish-Bosheth Is Assassinated
10 when one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good news, I took hold of him and killed him in Ziklag. I gave that to him as a reward. 11 Indeed 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? 12 And David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner in Hebron.
Cross References
Psalm 9:12
For He remembers them, the seekers of bloodshed; He forgets not the cry of the humble.
Genesis 9:5-6
and surely the blood of your lives will I require. At the hand of every animal will I require it, and at the hand of man. At the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
Genesis 4:11
And now you are cursed more than the ground which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your 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 which was on the face of the earth was destroyed, from man to cattle, and to the creeping things, and the fowls of the heavens. And they were destroyed from the earth, and only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.
Exodus 9:15
For now I will stretch out My hand, that I may strike you and your people with plagues, and you shall be cut off from the earth.
Exodus 21:12
He that strikes a man, so that he dies, shall be surely put to death.
Numbers 35:31-34
And you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death. But he shall surely be put to death.
2 Samuel 3:27
And Abner returned to Hebron. And Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him privately. And he struck him there in the belly, and he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
2 Samuel 3:39
And I am weak this day, though anointed king. And these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too hard for me. Jehovah shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.
1 Kings 2:32
And Jehovah shall return his blood on his own head, who fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David not knowing of it, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.
Psalm 109:15
Let them be always before Jehovah, that He may cut off their memory from the earth,
Proverbs 2:22
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Proverbs 25:26
A righteous man falling down before the wicked is like a troubled fountain and a rotten spring.
Jeremiah 10:11
So you shall say to them, The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth, they shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens.
Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law has become helpless, and justice does not always go forth. For the wicked entraps the righteous; therefore justice goes forth, being perverted.
Habakkuk 1:12
Are You not from everlasting, O Jehovah my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Jehovah, You have ordained them for judgment; and, my Rock, You have established them for correction.
1 John 3:12
not as Cain who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. And for what did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's things were righteous.