2 Samuel 4:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ How much more, then, when wicked men have killed a righteous man on his bed in his own house! And now shall I not require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ 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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ How much more–when wicked men have slain a just man in his own house on his bed–shall I not now require his blood of your hand and remove you from the earth!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ 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?

Common English Bible

¹¹ What do you think I’ll do when evil people kill a righteous person in his own house on his own bed? Why shouldn’t I demand his blood from your hands and rid the earth of you both?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ How much more so now, when impious men have put to death an innocent man in his own house, upon his bed, shall I not require his blood from your hand, and take you away from the earth?"

2 Samuel 4:11 Cross References

Psalm 9:12

For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

1 John 3:12

We must not be like Cain, who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous.

Habakkuk 1:12

Are you not from of old, O Lord my God, my Holy One? You shall not die. O Lord, you have marked them for judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for punishment.

Habakkuk 1:4

So the law becomes slack, and justice never prevails. The wicked surround the righteous; therefore judgment comes forth perverted.

Jeremiah 10:11

Thus shall you say to them: The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.

Proverbs 25:26

Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain are the righteous who give way before the wicked.

Proverbs 2:22

but the wicked will be cut off from the earth, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.

Psalm 109:15

Let them be before the Lord continually, and may his memory be cut off from the earth.

1 Kings 2:32

The Lord will bring back his bloody deeds on his own head because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than he: Abner son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

2 Samuel 3:39

Today I am powerless, even though anointed king; these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too violent for me. The Lord pay back the one who does wickedly in accordance with his wickedness!”

2 Samuel 3:27

When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gateway to speak with him privately, and there he stabbed him in the stomach. So he died on account of the blood of Asahel, Joab’s brother.

Exodus 21:12

“Whoever strikes a person mortally shall be put to death.

Exodus 9:15

Indeed, by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth.

Genesis 7:23

He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, human beings and animals and creeping things and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left and those with him in the ark.

Genesis 6:13

And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence because of them; now I am going to destroy them along with the earth.

Genesis 4:11

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

2 Samuel 16:8

The Lord has avenged on all of you the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, disaster has overtaken you, for you are a man of blood.”