2 Samuel 4:11 - The Scriptures 1998

¹¹ “How much more, when wrong men have slain a righteous man in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood at your hand and remove 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

Genesis 4:11

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

Genesis 6:13

and Elohim said to Noaḥ

Genesis 7:23

So He wiped off all that stand, which were on the face of the ground – both man and beast, creeping creature and bird of the heavens. And they were wiped off from the earth. And only Noaḥ

2 Samuel 16:8

“יהוה  has brought upon you all the blood of the house of Sha’ul, in whose place you have reigned. And יהוה  has given the reign into the hand of Aḇ

2 Samuel 3:27

Thus Aḇ

2 Samuel 3:39

“And I am weak today, though anointed sovereign. And these men, the sons of Tseruyah, are too harsh for me. Let יהוה  repay the evil-doer according to his evil.”

1 Kings 2:32

“Thus יהוה  shall return his blood on his head, because he had fallen on two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, while my father Dawiḏ

Psalm 109:15

Let them always be before יהוה, And let Him cut off their remembrance from the earth;

Psalm 9:12

For He remembers the seekers of bloodshed, He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

Exodus 21:12

“He who strikes a man so that he dies shall certainly be put to death.

Exodus 9:15

“Now if I had stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, then you would have been cut off from the earth.

Proverbs 2:22

But the wrong shall be cut off from the earth, And the treacherous ones plucked out of it.

Proverbs 25:26

A righteous man who gives way before the wrong, Is like a muddied spring and a ruined fountain.

Jeremiah 10:11

Say to them this, “The elah that did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”

Habakkuk 1:12

Are You not from everlasting, O יהוה  my Elohim, my Set-apart One? You do not die! O יהוה, You have appointed them for right-ruling, O Rock, You have established them for reproof.

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the Torah ceases, and right-ruling never goes forth. For the wrong hem in the righteous, so that right-ruling comes out twisted.

1 John 3:12

not as Qayin who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his works were wicked but those of his brother were righteous.