Genesis 9:6

God's Covenant With Noah

⁵ I will require your lifeblood as an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. I will demand an accounting from each man for the life of his fellow man. ⁶ “Whoever sheds man’s blood,
By man his blood shall be shed,
For in the image of God
He made man.
⁷ You should be fruitful and increase in number. Multiply (increase) on the earth.

God Made

Image of God

Genesis 1:26-27

Then God said: Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. Let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground.

Leviticus 24:17

Whoever kills another person must be put to death.

Matthew 26:52

Jesus told him: Put your sword in its place. Those who take up the sword will perish by the sword.

Revelation 13:10

He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity. He who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. This requires the patience and the faith of the holy ones.

Genesis 5:1

This is the written genealogy of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.

Exodus 21:12-14

Death is the punishment for murder.

James 3:9

We bless Jehovah, the Father, with it. (Psalm 34:1) Then we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God.

Genesis 4:14

You are driving me from the land today. I will be hidden from your presence. I will be a restless (homeless) wanderer on the earth. And whoever finds me will kill me.

Exodus 22:2-3

If the thief is caught while breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guiltiness on his account.

Leviticus 17:4

is guilty of bloodshed. He has shed blood and must be excluded from the people. Bring the animal to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. Offer it to Jehovah in front of the Jehovah's Tent.

Numbers 35:25

If you are innocent, the community must protect you from that relative. They must take you back to the city of refuge you fled to. You must live there until the death of the chief priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

Numbers 35:33

If you did this, you would defile the land where you are living. Murder defiles the land, and except by the death of the murderer there is no way to perform the ritual of purification for the land where someone has been murdered.

1 Kings 2:5-6

Remember what Joab did to me by killing the two commanders of Israel's armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. You remember how he murdered them in time of peace. This was revenge for deaths they had caused in time of war. He killed innocent men. I bear the responsibility for what he did. I suffer the consequences.

1 Kings 2:28-34

Joab received news of this for Joab had been one of Adonijah's supporters. He was not on Absalom's side. Then Joab went in flight to the Tent of Jehovah and put his hands on the corners of the altar.

Psalm 51:4

I have sinned against you, especially you. I have done what you consider evil in your sight. So you hand down justice when you speak, and you are blameless when you judge.

Romans 13:4

He is the minister of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid for he does not bear the sword in vain. He is the minister of God, an avenger to execute wrath upon him that does evil.